E. Christopher Clark
@eccbooks.bsky.social
author/illustrator of THE BLOOD OF SEVEN QUEENS comic book, which tells the story of how Red Riding Hood grew up to be the Queen of Hearts (he/him)
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
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"How do I find my art style?"
I've been a creative pro for 10 years, this is the number 1 question I get.
They want creative work to be recognizably theirs in an instant-- like Miyazaki or Wes Anderson movies.
This is the formula for art style, it's much simpler than you think.
I've been a creative pro for 10 years, this is the number 1 question I get.
They want creative work to be recognizably theirs in an instant-- like Miyazaki or Wes Anderson movies.
This is the formula for art style, it's much simpler than you think.
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"How do I find my art style?"
I've been a creative pro for 10 years, this is the number 1 question I get.
They want creative work to be recognizably theirs in an instant-- like Miyazaki or Wes Anderson movies.
This is the formula for art style, it's much simpler than you think.
I've been a creative pro for 10 years, this is the number 1 question I get.
They want creative work to be recognizably theirs in an instant-- like Miyazaki or Wes Anderson movies.
This is the formula for art style, it's much simpler than you think.
🎶 I'm drunk…
and right now I'm so in love with you.
And I don't
want to think too much about
what we should or shouldn't do. 🎶
and right now I'm so in love with you.
And I don't
want to think too much about
what we should or shouldn't do. 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🎶 I'm drunk…
and right now I'm so in love with you.
And I don't
want to think too much about
what we should or shouldn't do. 🎶
and right now I'm so in love with you.
And I don't
want to think too much about
what we should or shouldn't do. 🎶
Commuting 50-80 minutes each way, five days a week, for most of my 26-year working life… All told, I've spent literal YEARS stuck in traffic.
And here's the kicker? I can't even afford housing in the town where I live. It's only because of my parents that my family and I have a roof over our heads.
And here's the kicker? I can't even afford housing in the town where I live. It's only because of my parents that my family and I have a roof over our heads.
Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.
appropos of going outside daily, I have to note that drivers have just absolutely and completely lost their minds. I'm amazed that it has, somehow, gotten continually worse
why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere
why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Commuting 50-80 minutes each way, five days a week, for most of my 26-year working life… All told, I've spent literal YEARS stuck in traffic.
And here's the kicker? I can't even afford housing in the town where I live. It's only because of my parents that my family and I have a roof over our heads.
And here's the kicker? I can't even afford housing in the town where I live. It's only because of my parents that my family and I have a roof over our heads.
I understood that reference.
It's very simple. The next film should be about four Bonds: a cyborg one, a bloke in a suit of armour with a big hammer, a teenage one who's cloned from the DNA of Bond and Blofeld, and a fascist one that's secretly an artifact from Bond's homeworld.
Then the real one should come back with a mullet.
Then the real one should come back with a mullet.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I understood that reference.
Wowzers, that last post got some traction. As it was happening though, I realized that post made two in a row about Patton Oswalt. And while, yeah, I'm a little in love with the guy's comedy, this is NOT a Patton tribute account or something.
(Except now I've posted about him three times in a row.)
(Except now I've posted about him three times in a row.)
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Wowzers, that last post got some traction. As it was happening though, I realized that post made two in a row about Patton Oswalt. And while, yeah, I'm a little in love with the guy's comedy, this is NOT a Patton tribute account or something.
(Except now I've posted about him three times in a row.)
(Except now I've posted about him three times in a row.)
Just heard that Dick Cheney died and instantly thought of it this clip that introduced me to the comedy of @pattonoswalt.bsky.social ages and ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQS...
Patton Oswalt - The Dukes Of Hazzard.wmv
YouTube video by ExtremeHoward
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just heard that Dick Cheney died and instantly thought of it this clip that introduced me to the comedy of @pattonoswalt.bsky.social ages and ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQS...
You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.
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burn it all down.
Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit
Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit
The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI
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October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
burn it all down.
This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
Welp. At least I'll be in good company.
They want to try every creative writing professor who has said "Kill your darlings" at the Hague
i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person
October 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Welp. At least I'll be in good company.
At the mechanic to get an exhaust check-up and I’m pretty sure I’m *not* supposed to look at the pretty blue light of the blowtorch, but it’s cool-looking and it makes sparks and the alternative is local news on the TV next to me.
October 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
At the mechanic to get an exhaust check-up and I’m pretty sure I’m *not* supposed to look at the pretty blue light of the blowtorch, but it’s cool-looking and it makes sparks and the alternative is local news on the TV next to me.
My favorite comic strip turns 75 today, just a few days before my own 48th birthday. I don't know why I always forget the anniversary is so close. Good grief!
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
October 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My favorite comic strip turns 75 today, just a few days before my own 48th birthday. I don't know why I always forget the anniversary is so close. Good grief!
a sampling of things i tell myself during a night out with old friends:
1. If you can't find parking, just go home. They don't really want to see you anyway.
2. You're so fat that they're embarrassed to be seen with you.
3. That thing you said just now was the stupidest thing ever said by anyone.
1. If you can't find parking, just go home. They don't really want to see you anyway.
2. You're so fat that they're embarrassed to be seen with you.
3. That thing you said just now was the stupidest thing ever said by anyone.
September 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
a sampling of things i tell myself during a night out with old friends:
1. If you can't find parking, just go home. They don't really want to see you anyway.
2. You're so fat that they're embarrassed to be seen with you.
3. That thing you said just now was the stupidest thing ever said by anyone.
1. If you can't find parking, just go home. They don't really want to see you anyway.
2. You're so fat that they're embarrassed to be seen with you.
3. That thing you said just now was the stupidest thing ever said by anyone.
Like Monica says, you should read it. And not just for the future bits—which are marvelous and incredibly well-imagined and well-wrought—but for the masterful blending of three different timelines, each of the other two equally well-done.
Just wanted to mention here that I wrote an ENTIRE BOOK about a future utopian society based on perpetual mass migration. You should read it :)
The Actual Star | monicabyrne
"Wildly ambitious, wildly successful."--Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway
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September 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Like Monica says, you should read it. And not just for the future bits—which are marvelous and incredibly well-imagined and well-wrought—but for the masterful blending of three different timelines, each of the other two equally well-done.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
"Congratulations! The U.S. Department of Education has forgiven all or a portion of your federal student loan(s)…as you successfully met the requirements of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Thank you for your public service!"
"Congratulations! The U.S. Department of Education has forgiven all or a portion of your federal student loan(s)…as you successfully met the requirements of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Thank you for your public service!"
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm not crying, you're crying.
"Congratulations! The U.S. Department of Education has forgiven all or a portion of your federal student loan(s)…as you successfully met the requirements of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Thank you for your public service!"
"Congratulations! The U.S. Department of Education has forgiven all or a portion of your federal student loan(s)…as you successfully met the requirements of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Thank you for your public service!"
Great. Now try convincing them (us) to vote for the same person INSTEAD of this asshole they (we) all hate.
Two thirds of Americans are not Trump voters
The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...
September 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Great. Now try convincing them (us) to vote for the same person INSTEAD of this asshole they (we) all hate.
Bing Bong is supervising the Kickstarter fulfillment process, so you are all in good hands.
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Bing Bong is supervising the Kickstarter fulfillment process, so you are all in good hands.
Also: there is a guy in front of me driving a white Chevy truck with a bumper sticker that reads “warning: big truck, small penis.“
I am not sure what to make of it. Self-awareness? Reverse psychology? A little of both?
I am not sure what to make of it. Self-awareness? Reverse psychology? A little of both?
September 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Also: there is a guy in front of me driving a white Chevy truck with a bumper sticker that reads “warning: big truck, small penis.“
I am not sure what to make of it. Self-awareness? Reverse psychology? A little of both?
I am not sure what to make of it. Self-awareness? Reverse psychology? A little of both?
The sign by the side of the road reads “dollar forever. Store closing.”
So I guess it’s not really forever, is it?
So I guess it’s not really forever, is it?
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The sign by the side of the road reads “dollar forever. Store closing.”
So I guess it’s not really forever, is it?
So I guess it’s not really forever, is it?
I did not know how much I needed to hear Jeff Bridges say, “Nine Inch Nails, man” until just now.
Now I just need to hear him say, “Trent Reznor was able to compose this IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
youtu.be/4nuqoJT19T0?...
Now I just need to hear him say, “Trent Reznor was able to compose this IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
youtu.be/4nuqoJT19T0?...
Tron: Ares | Nine Inch Nails
YouTube video by Disney
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September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I did not know how much I needed to hear Jeff Bridges say, “Nine Inch Nails, man” until just now.
Now I just need to hear him say, “Trent Reznor was able to compose this IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
youtu.be/4nuqoJT19T0?...
Now I just need to hear him say, “Trent Reznor was able to compose this IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
youtu.be/4nuqoJT19T0?...
Ahhhh, just hurdled over the writer's block that was standing in my way for weeks if not months now. Damn, that's a good feeling.
September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Ahhhh, just hurdled over the writer's block that was standing in my way for weeks if not months now. Damn, that's a good feeling.
Working on issue #6 of the comic, even as copies of issue #5 are winging their way toward me (so that I can ship them right back out the door to my amazing readers), and I think issue #6 might be the actual death of me. So far behind, and the Big Bad Wolf presents new challenges every day, but…
September 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Working on issue #6 of the comic, even as copies of issue #5 are winging their way toward me (so that I can ship them right back out the door to my amazing readers), and I think issue #6 might be the actual death of me. So far behind, and the Big Bad Wolf presents new challenges every day, but…
Hello from Auburn Day’s Author’s Alley in Auburn, NH.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hello from Auburn Day’s Author’s Alley in Auburn, NH.