Patch Zircher
@patrickzircher.bsky.social
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'.
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.
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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@patrickzircher.bsky.social I finally, FINALLY, worked my way around to The Serpent Ring. All I can say is... Thank you!
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
@patrickzircher.bsky.social I finally, FINALLY, worked my way around to The Serpent Ring. All I can say is... Thank you!
More 'art stuff' for the house and drawing room.
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
More 'art stuff' for the house and drawing room.
Scooping up dog poop in the backyard.
Or, as I like to call it, The Worst Scavenger Hunt ever.
Or, as I like to call it, The Worst Scavenger Hunt ever.
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Scooping up dog poop in the backyard.
Or, as I like to call it, The Worst Scavenger Hunt ever.
Or, as I like to call it, The Worst Scavenger Hunt ever.
Reposted by Patch Zircher
Arizona hairy scorpion
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Arizona hairy scorpion
Reposted by Patch Zircher
A bunch of saguaro cacti among granite boulders in Alamo Canyon, Catalina State Park Tucson, AZ
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A bunch of saguaro cacti among granite boulders in Alamo Canyon, Catalina State Park Tucson, AZ
Reposted by Patch Zircher
Really enjoying playing with the scale differences of these folks; here's Merry and Pippin with Treebeard and Strider, for a sense of difference.
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Really enjoying playing with the scale differences of these folks; here's Merry and Pippin with Treebeard and Strider, for a sense of difference.
Lunch at Tohono Chul in Tucson.
The food is as great as the surroundings.
The food is as great as the surroundings.
December 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lunch at Tohono Chul in Tucson.
The food is as great as the surroundings.
The food is as great as the surroundings.
Why did the snowman call his dog Frost?
Because Frost bites.
Because Frost bites.
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why did the snowman call his dog Frost?
Because Frost bites.
Because Frost bites.
Latest read, The Monkey Grammarian (1974) by Octavio Paz; the Indian Monkey God Hanuman & Paz's visit to the Galta temple are the touchstone from which he muses about existence, sex, poetry, writing. It's a circular, plotless, kaleidoscopic, lyrical, cerebral work.
Aphorisms in disguise.
#BookSky
Aphorisms in disguise.
#BookSky
December 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Latest read, The Monkey Grammarian (1974) by Octavio Paz; the Indian Monkey God Hanuman & Paz's visit to the Galta temple are the touchstone from which he muses about existence, sex, poetry, writing. It's a circular, plotless, kaleidoscopic, lyrical, cerebral work.
Aphorisms in disguise.
#BookSky
Aphorisms in disguise.
#BookSky
Yes though it's subjective. Especially with a not-quite-nihilistic, stream of consciousness novel. All such novels demand a reader go from observer (as in a traditional plot) to their ego, to some extent, submerged. Sharing (or suppressing) your inner thoughts while listening to another's.
But was it a good read ?
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes though it's subjective. Especially with a not-quite-nihilistic, stream of consciousness novel. All such novels demand a reader go from observer (as in a traditional plot) to their ego, to some extent, submerged. Sharing (or suppressing) your inner thoughts while listening to another's.
Latest read, Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre; stream of consciousness novel of an emotionally detached writer struggling to appreciate life. He slips into mental nausea, rather than a physical one.
Has a kinship to Pessoa, Celine, Camus, Kafka, & Hesse.
Also influenced French New Wave.
#BookSky
Has a kinship to Pessoa, Celine, Camus, Kafka, & Hesse.
Also influenced French New Wave.
#BookSky
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Latest read, Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre; stream of consciousness novel of an emotionally detached writer struggling to appreciate life. He slips into mental nausea, rather than a physical one.
Has a kinship to Pessoa, Celine, Camus, Kafka, & Hesse.
Also influenced French New Wave.
#BookSky
Has a kinship to Pessoa, Celine, Camus, Kafka, & Hesse.
Also influenced French New Wave.
#BookSky
Latest read (audio), Soul Tourists (2005) by Bernadine Evaristo; an Englander of Caribbean descent searches for himself while struggling with a relationship--and conversing with the ghosts of historical figures, as the couple travels through Europe & the Middle East.
Creative & propulsive.
#BookSky
Creative & propulsive.
#BookSky
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Latest read (audio), Soul Tourists (2005) by Bernadine Evaristo; an Englander of Caribbean descent searches for himself while struggling with a relationship--and conversing with the ghosts of historical figures, as the couple travels through Europe & the Middle East.
Creative & propulsive.
#BookSky
Creative & propulsive.
#BookSky
Cardy's classic comic covers are terrific.
Teen Titans, Superman, Aquaman, Bat Lash.
The Hall of Fame www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... is kind of ignored but if any artist deserved his induction, Cardy did.
Teen Titans, Superman, Aquaman, Bat Lash.
The Hall of Fame www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... is kind of ignored but if any artist deserved his induction, Cardy did.
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Cardy's classic comic covers are terrific.
Teen Titans, Superman, Aquaman, Bat Lash.
The Hall of Fame www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... is kind of ignored but if any artist deserved his induction, Cardy did.
Teen Titans, Superman, Aquaman, Bat Lash.
The Hall of Fame www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... is kind of ignored but if any artist deserved his induction, Cardy did.
Watched the 1983 Twilight Zone movie a few days ago. The Spielberg segment is my fave. Many of the original episodes were tender & reflective, not all monsters & mayhem.
The sweetness of elderly people saying they would not change their lives, that one life was enough. A mature perspective.
The sweetness of elderly people saying they would not change their lives, that one life was enough. A mature perspective.
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Watched the 1983 Twilight Zone movie a few days ago. The Spielberg segment is my fave. Many of the original episodes were tender & reflective, not all monsters & mayhem.
The sweetness of elderly people saying they would not change their lives, that one life was enough. A mature perspective.
The sweetness of elderly people saying they would not change their lives, that one life was enough. A mature perspective.
Latest read (audio), Eye of the Heron (1978) by Ursula Le Guin; an earth, rife with strife & war, exiles two groups: criminals and political undesirables, to a distant, undeveloped planet. On this alien penal colony they form two cultures-- which eventually clash.
Prescient & genre-defying.
#BookSky
Prescient & genre-defying.
#BookSky
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Latest read (audio), Eye of the Heron (1978) by Ursula Le Guin; an earth, rife with strife & war, exiles two groups: criminals and political undesirables, to a distant, undeveloped planet. On this alien penal colony they form two cultures-- which eventually clash.
Prescient & genre-defying.
#BookSky
Prescient & genre-defying.
#BookSky
Here's an example of what I really love in Salinas' comic art.
Terrific composition. Beautiful inks.
Terrific composition. Beautiful inks.
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Here's an example of what I really love in Salinas' comic art.
Terrific composition. Beautiful inks.
Terrific composition. Beautiful inks.
I love Jose Salinas' Cisco Kid.
He based a character here on Ernest Borgnine.
I keep actors in mind for characters as well though I try not to keep them TOO in mind :)
He based a character here on Ernest Borgnine.
I keep actors in mind for characters as well though I try not to keep them TOO in mind :)
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I love Jose Salinas' Cisco Kid.
He based a character here on Ernest Borgnine.
I keep actors in mind for characters as well though I try not to keep them TOO in mind :)
He based a character here on Ernest Borgnine.
I keep actors in mind for characters as well though I try not to keep them TOO in mind :)
If you see this post a comic cover you love.
Creepy 15.
Once upon a time, Frazetta was looked on with derision. The art store next to the campus had a poster of this. They graffitied it. Ridiculed it, though not one customer could paint something like it.
Whose art sells for millions now, snobs?
Creepy 15.
Once upon a time, Frazetta was looked on with derision. The art store next to the campus had a poster of this. They graffitied it. Ridiculed it, though not one customer could paint something like it.
Whose art sells for millions now, snobs?
December 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
If you see this post a comic cover you love.
Creepy 15.
Once upon a time, Frazetta was looked on with derision. The art store next to the campus had a poster of this. They graffitied it. Ridiculed it, though not one customer could paint something like it.
Whose art sells for millions now, snobs?
Creepy 15.
Once upon a time, Frazetta was looked on with derision. The art store next to the campus had a poster of this. They graffitied it. Ridiculed it, though not one customer could paint something like it.
Whose art sells for millions now, snobs?
If you see this post a comic cover you love.
I should probably be ashamed but I'm not. I'd always wanted to do a movie-poster style cover and I think I stuck the dismount.
I should probably be ashamed but I'm not. I'd always wanted to do a movie-poster style cover and I think I stuck the dismount.
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If you see this post a comic cover you love.
I should probably be ashamed but I'm not. I'd always wanted to do a movie-poster style cover and I think I stuck the dismount.
I should probably be ashamed but I'm not. I'd always wanted to do a movie-poster style cover and I think I stuck the dismount.
Drawing a character with a 'dad bod' and I feel so... qualified.
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Drawing a character with a 'dad bod' and I feel so... qualified.
Latest read, Discourses and Selected Writings (Enchiridion and Fragments) 2nd century) by Epictetus; the philosopher's writings on stoicism, as well as his general maxims.
Words of wisdom-- with the caveat that a few of them are of their time and pertain to a different world.
#BookSky
Words of wisdom-- with the caveat that a few of them are of their time and pertain to a different world.
#BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Latest read, Discourses and Selected Writings (Enchiridion and Fragments) 2nd century) by Epictetus; the philosopher's writings on stoicism, as well as his general maxims.
Words of wisdom-- with the caveat that a few of them are of their time and pertain to a different world.
#BookSky
Words of wisdom-- with the caveat that a few of them are of their time and pertain to a different world.
#BookSky
Latest read, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus; a series of essays on life's meaning, absurdity, suicide, happiness, art, Kafka, the Left, Algeria, Don Juan, the Working Class.
Articulate with ideas difficult to articulate.
Camus provides the thrill of experiencing excellence.
#BookSky
Articulate with ideas difficult to articulate.
Camus provides the thrill of experiencing excellence.
#BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Latest read, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus; a series of essays on life's meaning, absurdity, suicide, happiness, art, Kafka, the Left, Algeria, Don Juan, the Working Class.
Articulate with ideas difficult to articulate.
Camus provides the thrill of experiencing excellence.
#BookSky
Articulate with ideas difficult to articulate.
Camus provides the thrill of experiencing excellence.
#BookSky
This time is ours and we can't live hating ourselves.
-- Albert Camus
-- Albert Camus
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This time is ours and we can't live hating ourselves.
-- Albert Camus
-- Albert Camus
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#ArtDD2025
Tufted titmouse, again
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
From a 📷 by @jocelynanderson.bsky.social & sent to me by @bearofoses.bsky.social
@saopaulomiigrau.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykroll.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Tufted titmouse, again
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
From a 📷 by @jocelynanderson.bsky.social & sent to me by @bearofoses.bsky.social
@saopaulomiigrau.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykroll.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#ArtDD2025
Tufted titmouse, again
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
From a 📷 by @jocelynanderson.bsky.social & sent to me by @bearofoses.bsky.social
@saopaulomiigrau.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykroll.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Tufted titmouse, again
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
From a 📷 by @jocelynanderson.bsky.social & sent to me by @bearofoses.bsky.social
@saopaulomiigrau.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykroll.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Here are my thoughts on The Force Awakens:
I saw it with my wife. When Han shows up and reunites with Leia as his wife, my wife squeezed my hand. Seeing two characters she loved as a kid, and this perspective, made her so happy.
I saw it with my wife. When Han shows up and reunites with Leia as his wife, my wife squeezed my hand. Seeing two characters she loved as a kid, and this perspective, made her so happy.
THE FORCE AWAKENS turns 10 tomorrow. Hard as it is to remember sometimes, it was extremely well received when it came out. For my money, it's always been one of the most rewatchable of the STAR WARS films. (I think I saw it 5 times within the first six months of release.)
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Here are my thoughts on The Force Awakens:
I saw it with my wife. When Han shows up and reunites with Leia as his wife, my wife squeezed my hand. Seeing two characters she loved as a kid, and this perspective, made her so happy.
I saw it with my wife. When Han shows up and reunites with Leia as his wife, my wife squeezed my hand. Seeing two characters she loved as a kid, and this perspective, made her so happy.