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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 19m

Honestly, if we destroy the place that gave birth to us, the Earth, I'd rather we did not infest other planets with our species.

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Steve Bryant writes and draws comics @stevebryantart.bsky.social · 45m

The Kickstarter campaign for Athena Voltaire: The Complete Adventures vol 1 ended back in June, but it's been open for late pledges since then. Closing out the late pledges tomorrow (Friday, October 2). Give it a look! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 3h

Let me get this straight. Fire generals and hire 83 yr old Newt Gingrich as an expert on advanced future weaponry. ... ... I think they really are sabotaging the U.S. from within.

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#wyrdwednesday "Hiding". by Val Mayerik. Oil painting on stretched canvas. 24" X 36". Cowboys and Dinosaurs graphic novel coming soon.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 19h

Inking advice to consider: After penciling, ink your drawing from the interior, toward the edge. Ink the outline last. Why? You're more encouraged to break past the outline. The advantage of this is depth, and interesting things that you may do with clothing folds, gear, & hair.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 20h

There probably isn't a universal answer to that. I'll name someone I would, if I were a publisher, just throw the keys to and say take any car in the lot. Nathan Fox:

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 21h

Latest read, July's People (1981) by Nadine Gordimer; an alternative history in which apartheid is violently overthrown & whites are subservient to blacks. Maureen & her children, white, now work under their former black servant July, whom they thought of as a friend. He has other feelings. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why do you get tamales for lunch and we don't? Because I am the master. That sucks. I say we leave a hairball in the middle of his bed.

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Jason Piperberg Illustration (He/Him) 🍉 @jasonpiperberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I FINALLY THOUGHT OF IT! A simple pitch for My Neighbor Necromancer!! Go to Necrocomic.com and back the campaign! We only have 8 days left!

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty good rule of thumb: If what you want to write looks like a soap opera or episodic prime-time drama-- you'll have a hard time finding a comic book artist. At least set it in the Old West, a fantasy world, the future, or a historic era. Throw the artist a bone.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my experience, at cons, artists talk to artists about how they love each others work. How they both love that other guy's work too. Writers talk about ideas they have :)

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It really varies. I've seen appreciative listeners (appreciative but always a little sad). And I've seen grown men cry during a critique. I've seen insults hurled. Rage. I'd rather sneak off and talk to creators than give critiques.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, good advice regarding creativity is only good if you can hear it. If you can quiet down your ego and inner voice, your pride and your concerns, and actually listen.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was building pages well (that may be how I got work before I actually DREW well). Choosing the right 'shots' and solid compositions. I was a movie and art nut already. Jim Lee; advice about the key moment to choose when encapsulating movement in one panel.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can become a successful comic artist without ever having talked to another artist. But is that harder? Yes. Another artist, the right artist, can give you a tip, regarding your drawing, that is an eye-opening short cut or solution.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mentioning Carl Potts. Carl is not as known as an artist as you would think he would be because he was also a writer and editor. But Carl knows his stuff.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think, for artists, critique often works this way: Does the artist giving me advice regularly do things that I know are damn hard to do. If they do, I'm all ears.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

20th C literary writers, post Joyce, often wrote coarse passages. Marquez, Eco, Mailer, Gordimer, Updike, Fuentes--thousands of examples; signaling "this is an honest, frank work-- you can trust me to tell it like it is, I'm not pretentious, no matter how cerebral or lyrical I get later".

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just did a backyard dog poop clean-up. Keeps you humble :)

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still waiting for a book from Taschen's sale 4 weeks ago. Are they printing these things again before sending them out :)

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder, if comic artists had more private discussions with each other about our work, if we would, more often, be thankful and learn from it-- or never talk to each other again.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish I read other languages. Auto-translations are helpful but... "hugging and digesting completely the style of the sword and witchcraft and gives him a semipicarous air. You will not find the scabble things or the hyperflipadas that are your seal"

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest read, The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene; A writer realizes he still loves a woman he once had an affair with but, when she dies, convinces her husband she did not need a Catholic service, though evidence suggests she was becoming increasingly Catholic. Exquisite prose. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest read, Tarra Khash: Hrossak! (1991) by Brian Lumley; Tarra, a steppe-dwelling barbarian (Hrossak) adventures on the world of Theem'hdra, encountering vampiric lamia, temple guardians, evil wizards, & Lovecraftian beings. Unabashedly embraces Howard, HPL, Dunsany, & Clark Ashton Smith. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In movies, novels, comics, even music-- there's frequently a balancing act, or battle, between a visceral thrill (entertainment) and something for the mind and soul (art). Sometimes both make it in.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I saw Wrath of Khan at the theater (the old, long gone 'Big' Gallagher theater at the University of Arizona) it received a round of applause at the end. #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the death scene of our generation. It transcends genre. #TCMparty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Let me show you something that will make you feel young as when the world was new." "Here? The others will be back any minute." "Not THAT." "Oh " #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 enterprise and not much room #TCMparty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The other Moby Dick/Ahab/Khan paraphrased quote: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up! #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kirstie Alley had the right look for a Vulcan. That's about the only thing I have to say about Kirstie Alley. #TCMparty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, Eric, we want you to kill Cornelius and Zira. This won't hurt my career? Nah. Besides, there's always soap operas. #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest read, The Matter of Seggri (1994) by Ursula K. Le Guin; in this sf novella of (roughly) Renaissance era gender-reversal, males are rarely born, and therefore protected, pampered (& ignorant) studs, while the women are the productive, educated, sexually free members of society. Great. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest read, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760) by Laurence Sterne; famous, hence over-analyzed but that's mostly "cock & bull". It's simply fun, wry, about life (& writing), full of anecdotes & digressions. Don't concern yourself with plot, Sterne doesn't. Loved it. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've always wanted to hear a woman with a gorgeous voice read this chapter of Moby Dick.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, 60 days. That's different. Give this piece of shit a medal.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Not the movie version, in which Kubrick changes him. elicits sympathy for him, but the book. A perfect example of the villain who doesn't see himself as a villain.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you! More to come! My publisher recently switched presidents (the former president is still with the company) and they reached out, letting me know I was important to them and will always have work. That means a lot! Especially as I want to tell stories about all their characters :)

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Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abigail Larson

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Protesters, you should : Chant USA! USA! first-- holding up the signs that oppose them. Undermine the false patriotism that the amoral money-suckling pigs are using.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He's right. Here's how the current Republican party works: It's a crime according to the law but it's not a crime if we call it something else. That shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a tip if you want good interaction with artists. If you're going to make a glib comment, say "That's terrific! I love it!" or something. Then tell your joke. Because artists work hard and they're sharing-- and a joke makes them feel taken for granted. Awesome, Dr. Strange, Chris!

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michael Golden was art director at Marvel for a while when I was there. But some of the editors grumbled, thought he was too demanding. I LOVED his advice. That's the surprise though, in that position and not that interested in superheroes.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@indra.dahal24 does tiny construction projects: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I thought I was just choosing what I wanted to hear. These sound like the rants of people who are upset you skipped school the morning of the pep rally.

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