Chris Schweizer
@schweizercomics.bsky.social
Cartoonist/Kentucky Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee (the Crogan Adventures, the Creeps). Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. Hopkins County, KY. He/him
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I say "hindrance" like it's something to overcome. It ain't! I ain't here for the subject matter, I'm here for its execution.
January 12, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I say "hindrance" like it's something to overcome. It ain't! I ain't here for the subject matter, I'm here for its execution.
It's still a real hindrance for me - with the reluctant exception of BPRD, I never bought a "title," only the cartoonist or team. I'll occasionally (rarely!!!) pick up a franchise book, but only because of who's on it (and on a collaborative book, I have to like all parties involved).
January 12, 2026 at 3:28 AM
It's still a real hindrance for me - with the reluctant exception of BPRD, I never bought a "title," only the cartoonist or team. I'll occasionally (rarely!!!) pick up a franchise book, but only because of who's on it (and on a collaborative book, I have to like all parties involved).
Mine is the 160 gig one from 2009ish - 7th gen, I think. Used it nigh on nonstop when I needed something portable until this year, and the battery won't keep much anymore at all (which is a shame, because it used to hold for an absurd amount of time, great for trips into the mountains with no power)
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Mine is the 160 gig one from 2009ish - 7th gen, I think. Used it nigh on nonstop when I needed something portable until this year, and the battery won't keep much anymore at all (which is a shame, because it used to hold for an absurd amount of time, great for trips into the mountains with no power)
I'll give it a gander. Thanks!
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I'll give it a gander. Thanks!
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“ what else ought there be? “
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
“ what else ought there be? “
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It's really this fucking easy. Everything, EVERYTHING is a political choice and we need to remember that.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It's really this fucking easy. Everything, EVERYTHING is a political choice and we need to remember that.
This is great!!!
January 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This is great!!!
Anyone know if there's a way to watch 1978's JÖRG RATGEB: MALER with English subtitles? I see a PAL dvd but it lacks the subtitles, so far as I can tell.
(Anyone seen it? Worth a watch? I suspect it's about making art amidst turmoil, and there ain't a lot of movies about the German Peasants' War)
(Anyone seen it? Worth a watch? I suspect it's about making art amidst turmoil, and there ain't a lot of movies about the German Peasants' War)
January 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Anyone know if there's a way to watch 1978's JÖRG RATGEB: MALER with English subtitles? I see a PAL dvd but it lacks the subtitles, so far as I can tell.
(Anyone seen it? Worth a watch? I suspect it's about making art amidst turmoil, and there ain't a lot of movies about the German Peasants' War)
(Anyone seen it? Worth a watch? I suspect it's about making art amidst turmoil, and there ain't a lot of movies about the German Peasants' War)
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WIP rough pass for a little Wilbur & Harold short I've been working on the last couple of months! 😼
January 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
WIP rough pass for a little Wilbur & Harold short I've been working on the last couple of months! 😼
Poor Mary, she's my favorite, she's often played as awkward but I see her as the nobody-in-this-town-gets-me scenester whose attempts to expose everyone to good music at the party are upended by her sisters forcing her to play top 40 fluff
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Poor Mary, she's my favorite, she's often played as awkward but I see her as the nobody-in-this-town-gets-me scenester whose attempts to expose everyone to good music at the party are upended by her sisters forcing her to play top 40 fluff
Some PRIDE AND PREJUDICE characters, for you Austen fans
January 10, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Some PRIDE AND PREJUDICE characters, for you Austen fans
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Thread: attempting to take a series of choreographed fight movements and translating them to a comics page, figuring it out as we go.
Sometimes when I'm working out what happens in a fight, I'll draw it out as a kind of diagram of what happens (still thinking about clarity and angle choice), and only afterwards arrange them into panels, figure out where to crop, how to position them to where they lead the eye through the movement
January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Thread: attempting to take a series of choreographed fight movements and translating them to a comics page, figuring it out as we go.
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really feels like Becca Good saying “go get some lunch, big boy” is when he snapped. the kind of man who joins ICE is absolutely the kind of man who thinks women should die for saying things like that. they absolutely crash out when we aren’t cowering in fear and making them feel scary & powerful
To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
really feels like Becca Good saying “go get some lunch, big boy” is when he snapped. the kind of man who joins ICE is absolutely the kind of man who thinks women should die for saying things like that. they absolutely crash out when we aren’t cowering in fear and making them feel scary & powerful
I stole/learned this from looking at the work of @brihurtt.bsky.social many years ago, who made liberal use of the technique in THE 6TH GUN, and I employ it on pretty much every drawing I do.
The Etherington Bro books are great, get your mitts on 'em.
The Etherington Bro books are great, get your mitts on 'em.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I stole/learned this from looking at the work of @brihurtt.bsky.social many years ago, who made liberal use of the technique in THE 6TH GUN, and I employ it on pretty much every drawing I do.
The Etherington Bro books are great, get your mitts on 'em.
The Etherington Bro books are great, get your mitts on 'em.
Fights in which the characters interact with/use elements of the environment are almost always more memorable and arresting than the alternative. Thanks for the reminder!
January 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Fights in which the characters interact with/use elements of the environment are almost always more memorable and arresting than the alternative. Thanks for the reminder!
I think that's great! I usually work up my environment first, too, because I like for an action scene to have a jackie chan quality whenever possible, but I haven't been doing that in the woods - just ground and mild elevation changes. I should work the trees into the rest of this fight.
January 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I think that's great! I usually work up my environment first, too, because I like for an action scene to have a jackie chan quality whenever possible, but I haven't been doing that in the woods - just ground and mild elevation changes. I should work the trees into the rest of this fight.
Thanks so very much, Jess!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Thanks so very much, Jess!!!
Also, ha, this fight wasn't in the outline/script, but when the blue character leapt at the yellow one I reckoned it couldn't be deferred as intended, the action was starting and it had to see itself play out. Yella fella lives, and him being arrow-stuck will now affect later parts of the story.
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Also, ha, this fight wasn't in the outline/script, but when the blue character leapt at the yellow one I reckoned it couldn't be deferred as intended, the action was starting and it had to see itself play out. Yella fella lives, and him being arrow-stuck will now affect later parts of the story.
Thread: attempting to take a series of choreographed fight movements and translating them to a comics page, figuring it out as we go.
Sometimes when I'm working out what happens in a fight, I'll draw it out as a kind of diagram of what happens (still thinking about clarity and angle choice), and only afterwards arrange them into panels, figure out where to crop, how to position them to where they lead the eye through the movement
January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Thread: attempting to take a series of choreographed fight movements and translating them to a comics page, figuring it out as we go.
Here we go!
Panel 1 redrawn (and reworked again to keep blue's left arm from leading the eye into panel 3).
I almost never use non-rectangular panels, but it felt like it worked here to show the arrow release and impact. Glad to get rid of the arrow-in-flight, and its suggested slowness.
Panel 1 redrawn (and reworked again to keep blue's left arm from leading the eye into panel 3).
I almost never use non-rectangular panels, but it felt like it worked here to show the arrow release and impact. Glad to get rid of the arrow-in-flight, and its suggested slowness.
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Here we go!
Panel 1 redrawn (and reworked again to keep blue's left arm from leading the eye into panel 3).
I almost never use non-rectangular panels, but it felt like it worked here to show the arrow release and impact. Glad to get rid of the arrow-in-flight, and its suggested slowness.
Panel 1 redrawn (and reworked again to keep blue's left arm from leading the eye into panel 3).
I almost never use non-rectangular panels, but it felt like it worked here to show the arrow release and impact. Glad to get rid of the arrow-in-flight, and its suggested slowness.
Well, I really appreciate that, Troy, thanks so much!
January 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Well, I really appreciate that, Troy, thanks so much!
...of the arrow traveling through the air. See it in the air once, fine. That's borderline acceptable. Twice "slows" it to where it ceases to feel like a propulsive object.
I also don't necessarily like seeing the archer from the same angle twice in a row, but if I rework panel 3, might not matter.
I also don't necessarily like seeing the archer from the same angle twice in a row, but if I rework panel 3, might not matter.
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
...of the arrow traveling through the air. See it in the air once, fine. That's borderline acceptable. Twice "slows" it to where it ceases to feel like a propulsive object.
I also don't necessarily like seeing the archer from the same angle twice in a row, but if I rework panel 3, might not matter.
I also don't necessarily like seeing the archer from the same angle twice in a row, but if I rework panel 3, might not matter.
...being misfired, a wild and unintentional angle out of the bow. So the angle of either panel 3 or panel 4 will need to be altered to make for a straight shot to the target part of panel 4's body without panel 3 looking wonky.
ALSO, in panel 4, we'd see the archers, but I don't want "slo-mo" of...
ALSO, in panel 4, we'd see the archers, but I don't want "slo-mo" of...
January 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
...being misfired, a wild and unintentional angle out of the bow. So the angle of either panel 3 or panel 4 will need to be altered to make for a straight shot to the target part of panel 4's body without panel 3 looking wonky.
ALSO, in panel 4, we'd see the archers, but I don't want "slo-mo" of...
ALSO, in panel 4, we'd see the archers, but I don't want "slo-mo" of...