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Patch Zircher

@patrickzircher.bsky.social

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Writer. Artist. Colorist. Making new Solomon Kane adventures and Savage Sword of Conan stories for Heroic Signature & Titan Comics! Drawn hundreds of comics for 'the other guys'.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · Dec 17

Writing, drawing, and coloring the adventures of Solomon Kane -- living Sword of Vengeance who wanders a fantastical 16th century.
I am also writing stories for The Savage Sword of Conan magazine, published by Heroic and Titan comics.
I love making these stories.
Thank you for looking.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 16m

The 1970s second Ka-Zar run has everything I miss in comics and loved in childhood; alien invaders, flying sharks, green men, purple horses, priestesses and zombies, warriors riding bat-winged creatures, sabretooth tigers.
It's Ka-Zar by way of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard.
#ComicSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1h

From an artist pov, Kamandi would be fun to draw.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1h

:)
That explains a lot. There's a lot of Planet of the Apes in Kamandi.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1h

Even 'good news' is greeted like this now.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1h

I know what you mean-- and I rarely bought it myself. I preferred Killraven, Deathlok, 'serious' dystopian futures :)

But it was an era when kids read comics. A kid sees themself in Kamandi-- as opposed to The Demon, New Gods, Omac, the Eternals.
It also has a strong sense of wonder and fantasy.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 2h

I hope it's something like that.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 2h

A copy of Strunk & White would have changed comics :)

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, I would have changed the 2nd one too.
This is why writers revise, and why there's strength in being direct. When that was written there was little or no time for the writer to revise.

"Besides, I made a vow to your wife, the Lady Annia--

-- and however barbarous I may be, I keep my vows!"

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 2h

good girl

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 3h

“I can still chase the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 11h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 3h

Gorgeous Gil Kane drawing, by the way.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 3h

If the first voice-over narration box had simply been:
"Besides, I made a vow to your wife, the Lady Annia--

it would be fine.

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 3h

Conan the Exposition

Speaking to a villain, Conan relates “I had made a vow to your wife—whose name is Annia, in case you’ve forgotten—“

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 5h

You can't give a peace prize to someone you suspect is always motivated by a profit, a deal. Everything he does, I wonder what's in it for him. Because that's his character, that's who he's shown everyone he is.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

Fantasy is Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It's Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, and the Divine Comedy.
It's Orlando, The Master and Margarita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, & Pedro Paramo.
It's Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
It doesn't have a ceiling or a limit.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

On quality, I just want to make the best comics I can AND enjoy myself. I want to make comics like the stories I most admire by others.
That hasn't led to forgoing fantasy for Lit (yet, anyway) because reading satisfies that desire.
And fantasy can be meaningful (Le Guin, Tanith, Bradbury).

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

I enjoy it too.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

Wonderful article.
I'm glad Katherine wrote it. Thank you for sharing it, Mike.
I can't stand to stop working & have drawn through shaking fevers, wrapped in a blanket.
Not doing it, or being able to, is my fear. Passivity makes me uncomfortable. Working makes me whole.
May she be in writers heaven.

Michael Downs @michaeldowns.bsky.social · 14h

I would expect you more to write a piece like this one funny, thoughtful one. A friend was dying of cancer and still figuring out how and why to work. The cancer killed her, but she kept working right up until the end. And she even attempted to justify not working! therumpus.net/2018/11/06/w...

Writing When Your Life Depends on It - The Rumpus

Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.

therumpus.net

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 14h

If I ever write a think piece about not working, not trying--making an attempt to justify that-- slap me.

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Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social · 14h

Jordi Bernet

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 16h

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 17h

Latest read (audio), Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare; performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society (including Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellan).
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends"

#BookSky

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 22h

Latest read, 62 poems and 2 essays by Edgar Allan Poe. The first essay is on Cryptology, the second is his novel-length essay Eureka, on God, matter, and the universe.
Poe said Eureka was his magnum opus & more important than Newton's theory of gravity.
Y'know, he really was a little crazy.
#BookSky

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