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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 · 12h

Latest read, North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell; when her family moves to a northern industrial town, there is a clash of cultures between Margaret Hale & the master of Marlborough Mills, John Thornton.
A deft blend of Austen & Dickens that is both romance and class commentary.
#BookSky

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

Birdkeeping, Juggling, and Stealth.

Makes for an interesting rogue.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

Armorer, Performance, and Gadgeteering.

Interesting combo, a medieval inventor with a penchant for drama.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

Juggling, Astronomy, and Painting

I think you may be Leonardo da Vinci's apprentice.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

Your skills are Bodybuilding, Physics, Dual Wielding of Weapons.

You're a renaissance era superhero :)

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 15h

ps; Blink is also run on Ai and fails to comprehend the meaning and tone of the books it is 'reading for you'.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 15h

I can tell you what Blink cuts out:
Everything that makes a book worth reading.
A plot synopsis isn't a novel-- and a plot synopsis has never made anyone Feel anything.

Carry on, world. Wonder why there's no meaning in your life.
I'll continue reading whole books written by people.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 20h

I will follow her now, after annoyingly quote-posting.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 22h

We're using a maid service for the first time in our lives. It is amazing. They are actually dusting my books, shelf by shelf.

Also: If my wife finds out I'm on BlueSky while we're paying a maid service, I'm dead.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 22h

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Reading White, Latino, Asian, Black, Man, Woman, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish-- we are remarkably alike in the printed word. In sharing our experiences, we're talking about the outside.
Our inner voice, our happiness & despair, is universal.
This is why people who want to divide us attack books.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Marc.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Amending my dream; it is also filled with people who wanted to learn but, for one reason or another, were discouraged.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

My idea of heaven is a beautiful library, with beautiful grounds to walk on. Inside it is fully functional with books, audio, video, art & writing workshops, and guest speakers from throughout all time. Its rooms represent all cultures.
It is filled with people who loved learning their whole lives.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Table 3 are books, essays, and speeches Abraham Lincoln read.
He grew up, in poverty, in a log cabin.
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jala/art...

Why in the hell are we excusing today's leaders from being educated men?

What Abraham Lincoln Read—An Evaluative and Annotated List

This bibliography attempts to list, in alphabetical order by author, all the books or parts of books that any serious scholar, biographer, or bibliographer has asserted that Abraham Lincoln read. In t...

scholarlypublishingcollective.org

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Being well-read doesn't guarantee a good leader.
True.
But ignorance is even less of a guarantee.

Since we so seldom choose a well-read candidate, maybe we should give one a try.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Laughing so I don't cry.

We are governed by failsons.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

It's that relaxed state I always prayed would eventually happen. I don't have to force a drawing to be what I want it to be as much as I used to.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks you JH!

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Might-have-beens are weird; if I'd have done that I might not have married the woman I married, my kids wouldn't exist.
Traveling back in time would terrify me :)

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Life can go so many different ways depending on your choices; I could have ended up in LA with Fox Animation, or NY with Blue Sky Studios, or Austin with Origin.
All three of them are defunct now so I feel freelancing was the right choice.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

I also included that in the picture to show the dichotomies of my account, Mickey Mouse to Aristotle :)

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

On my drawing table.

If someone had asked 30 yrs ago if I wanted to bring Solomon Kane to comics, I would have said, "Hell yes!"

That hasn't changed.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 1d

Certain ones are. The one's with crisp diction and an ear for accents.