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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 7h

Hammer Horror featured a lot of beautiful women. Valerie Leon is no exception. #TCMparty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 17h

I'm a pupil (ha!) of the Barry Windsor Smith school of drawing eyes :) Keep 'em simple and light.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 17h

Got my new ride! Will try not to wreck this one.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 18h

They're at a bed & breakfast in New England. I told them to avoid Dunwich, Innsmouth, Arkham, and any rare tomes they come across.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 18h

My granddoggie is being humiliated by my daughter again.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 19h

Trying not to hurt anyone's feelings. The way DePaul was let go-- that's very typical with publishers. Which art approach is right? That's a matter of preference. I'm personally fond of the older "illustrators style", there are a lot of fundamentals there. But it has to be 'lively', always.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 20h

Followed by @chris-sprouse.bsky.social this morning and I'm trying not to be a geek about it. One of my absolute favorite artists!

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 22h

on my drawing board, Conan and Bazhu if I can get Bazhu in a few more stories, I will

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Latest read, Best Horror of the Year 8 (2016), ed. Ellen Datlow; another offering in what's probably the best annual horror anthology of the modern age. For the most part, this is horror for honor roll students; suggestive, nuanced, tense, atmospheric--allowing readers to draw conclusions. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My sister-in-law says, socially, there's Too much man-bashing.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It helps to have a ten-armed Hindu goddess as a subject:) I saw Ray Harryhausen's Kali model in person earlier this year and was inspired.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My cover (variant B) for the Solomon Kane - Lion Errant 4, out Oct. 28th.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wrote you a love letter ... with Ai.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Goodreads, which I like to belittle for good reason, gives The Good Soldier 3.66 Other sources though:

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Latest read. The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford; love is a not-so-tender trap in this novel of conniving, unloving wives and unfaithful husbands. When 'the Good Soldier'. Edward Ashburnham, falls in love out of marriage, his socially proper, respectable wife, drives him to his doom. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Knowing a book will be great by the end of the first paragraph:

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

1st grade. We were given Dick and Jane books and I was already reading Marvel comics. I felt like I was hobbled. Forced to move in slow-motion.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Goodreads 3.5 for Cline's The Girls (The Shirley Jackson Award winner) and the response below to The Girls... in indicative of why Goodreads is worthless. Of the batch of books I recently read, it was one of the best.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, I read Book II (of VII) in the 1000 page epic that is Musashi. I'm just going to have to do this one book at a time, every once in a while, reading a lot else in between. I thought I'd love this much more than I do. After 110 to 120 pages, I'm dying for something more nuanced.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Latest read, The Girls (2016) by Emma Cline; Evie Boyd is a 14 year old girl with a lousy home life, lousy parents, poor self esteem, & a broken radar for 'the bad people'. Thus begins her life with a Manson family-like cult in late 1960s California. Absolutely compelling. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Latest read, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 12 adventures, with the Greek Interpreter introducing Mycroft Holmes and The Final Problem, Professor Moriarty. Which means this is some of the most fun to be had in the Holmes canon. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

JD received his drawing. He's also autistic and this was the first time some of the staffers saw him smile. His parents were elated! The drawing is up with his get well cards next to his bed.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I say it's a Fellini look. Nic has a certain Italian director heritage, after all.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fellini. Cage is a Coppola, after all.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Latest read, On the Calculation of Volume II (2020) by Solvej Balle. In this 2nd book in the series, rare books dealer Tara Selter is trapped in time another 3 yrs. A convincing emotional portrayal of the experience as she craves seasons & holidays, and is lost in reading history. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nic Cage is gonna be the eclectic, unusual old man we expected he'd be some day. 👍

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A #SundaySentence from Garth Marenghi's Hellraiser parody, Terrortome: You look like one of those illustrations in old medical journals, she gasped. "Listen, Roz, I've only been flayed, it's still me." She looked up at me and smiled. Wiped a strand of dripping flesh from my cheek.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Watched Boorman's Hope and Glory and Ian Bannen is in it. Sometimes I miss character actors more acutely than stars. They represent eras. You grow up with them. I saw Bannen in 18 movies and numerous TV episodes. #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When I was a teenager, for some reason, "Would you make out with Linda Blair?" was some kind of check. This was when she was a teen too, 16 to 19. It was stupid (but we were teens). Any (straight) teenage guy who said no, we said 'you goddam liar'. #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Henry Fonda as Charles Holloway, the older, midwestern dad, and librarian. Max Von Sydow as Mr. Dark.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Peckinpah directing Something Wicked This Way Comes? Maybe. The core of the story is the father and the two boys, and their good natures overcoming evil. 1968? I would have wanted Robert Wise-- who directed The Haunting and the Sound of Music.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Latest read, Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury; a philosophic, poetic tale about the desires & regrets, amplified by Mr. Dark & his travelling carnival, that haunt us-- us in 2 best friends and a father. The novel began in 1955 as an idea for a musical--for Gene Kelly. #BookShop

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last night The Fiend Without a Face and First Man Into Space (also a horror movie though the title doesn't give that impression) were on TCM. I had to look up Marshall Thompson (who is in both of them) to stop calling him The Other Van Johnson. #TCMParty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

122,039 men wishing they were "17 Albums".

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can watch old horror movies (or have them on in the background anyway) often. I think I've seen Thing from Another World fifteen times :) #TCMparty

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I often told my daughter how much I love this book. She's a fan now too. The perfect October or Halloween read.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson's Reticent Sonnet, from Lecture on Pronouns:

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Latest listen, Anne Carson at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center. Anne Carson, in 2009, reads her works Cassandra Float Can and Lecture on Pronouns. This is magical, playful, clever. Loved it. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Latest read, Colonel Sun (1968) by Kingsley Amis; Amis was an established, critically-acclaimed writer at the time he agreed to write the first James Bond continuation novel. But also a Fleming afficionado--and it shows. Colonel Sun really captures the feel and style of early Bond. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Latest read, The Oresteia (458 BC) by Aeschylus; the trilogy of the House of Atreus, from Clymenestra's murder of her husband Agamemnon, to Orestes' murder of his mother Clymenestra, to the fate of their House and Athens. Mythophiles will enjoy the personifications of Athena & the Furies. #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Latest read, Terrortome (2022) by Matthew Holness; Holness masquerades as horror writer Garth Marenghi writing as horror writer Nick Steen in a parody of Clive Barker's style. Pokes fun at horror, writers, editors. It's slapstick, absurdist, witty. One of the funniest books I've ever read! #BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two approaches to panels in which you're concerned the background is overwhelming your characters. The blur panel. And the fade panel. I prefer the fade.

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