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Hey, there’s something coming up that I want to tell you about!

Streaming Like A Streamer

Look at this! You can watch me draw!

This video is 28 minutes long, and was created yesterday (October 2nd) for my Twitch stream. I’m experimenting a bit with streaming because they say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and I’m interested in proving them wrong. Or maybe I’ll just be cited as an exception to the rule. Perhaps people will say it doesn’t count because I’m not old.

It doesn’t matter. All of those qualify as win conditions for me.

Follow and/or subscribe at twitch.tv/howardtayler.

I’m getting ready to stream again in about 20 minutes, because today’s #Inktober prompt is “Bait” and my brother told me that if I draw anything ELSE it would be “bait and switch” so now I need to do that.

So Very Busy…

The Schlock Mercenary Buffer (the queue of finished comics awaiting their daily reveal at schlockmercenary.com) has come under siege recently, and as of this writing it’s down around 5.

So, y’know… I have a bazillion things to talk about, but not much time to write, so for right now I’m just going to draw some comics. Maybe I’ll come up for air long enough to see if there are any movies playing, but let’s all agree in advance not to hold our breaths for that.

Typecast RPG: The Return of Dan & Howard

It’s Tuesday!

Dan and I are back from the Writing Excuses Retreat, so tonight’s episode of Typecast RPG will have us in it again!

Tune in tonight, at 9pm Eastern for the  live stream of the Gods of Vareon D&D game.

We’re still struggling to get the art cam working, but we’ve narrowed the problem to the USB ports on the host machine. Producer Donald is still troubleshooting it, and I’m hopeful that this week we’ll have LIVE VIDEO of me doing color sketches of in-game events.

If we can’t get it to work, well, I’ll just draw things off-camera and then hold them up when I’m done.

Previous sessions are available on YouTube, but if you’re there for the live stream you’re eligible for giveaways, including some of those sketches.

Typecast Tonight, FanX on Thursday

It’s Tuesday again already? Let’s Do This.

At 9pm Eastern my friends and I will be  streaming our Gods of Vareon D&D game.  Dan Wells is our dungeon master. Brian McClellan, Mari Murdock, Charlie Holmberg, Ethan Sproat, and I are playing, respectively, the no-healing¹ Cleric, the no-prisoners Rogue, the no-romance Druid, the no-religion Paladin, and the no-fighting-please² Bard.

I’ll doing high-speed color sketches of in-game events, and new subscribers get to suggest targets for my pen, so if you’ve got an Amazon Prime account with unused Twitch subscriptions, this might be a good use for them!

Previous sessions are available on YouTube, but our giveaways (including some of those sketches) are reserved for the live audience.

Typecast Will Be At FanX

We’ll be at Salt Lake City FanX doing a one-shot adventure in Room 255 DEF from 5pm to 9pm on Thursday. I’ll be doing the in-game sketching thing during the show, and those sketches will be given away to audience members. For reals!

I’m not exhibiting at the show³, so if you’re in Salt Lake City for FanX this weekend, your only opportunity to catch up with me will be Thursday evening. And while I can’t promise you a live D&D sketch, I’ll definitely sign whatever merchandise you may have that needs my attention.


¹ This has proven inconvenient. My bard is now the party’s main healer. 
² My bard was pacifist-leaning before he realized he was also the combat medic. He now has even more reasons to try to talk his way out of a fight.
³ Regarding exhibiting at FanX: Sandra and I have tried several times to make it worth our while, but it’s just not. Four of our five least profitable shows in the last 10 years have been FanX/SLC Comic-Con, so as much as I’d love to have a presence there, my time is more pleasantly⁴ and profitably spent at home drawing comics.
⁴ Of course, if this Typecast thing is enough fun, and enough of a hit, Typecast might exhibit next year, and I’d definitely be there for that.