In due time! But a real case of having a mental list of authors I'd like to illustrate or adapt and then skipping in line towards the end.

It has taken a great lot of restraint to not drag a ventriloquist dummy on stage with me, but that doesn't mean everyone is getting away dummy free.

I swear to god I'm gunna start saying stuff like "Alan Moore. You know, writer of Big Numbers"

This'll be my first time too! I've gotta be in the single digits of being someone who has read Providence before getting to From Hell.

I haven't yet! Though given I'm just starting a book about Jack the Ripper by Mark Frost and was gunna follow it up with From Hell, I probably should.

Been working on a remodel for a wing of mine. It's IN THE AIR.

Also a big reason for the Po'Dunk section of the website. Nice little place to put them as almost bonus features? It's a real Marge Simpson "I just think they're neat" approach.

A big part of starting work on each Backwood Folk issue is making the little props that will appear over the course of the issue. Fake newspaper front pages, old photos, fictional book covers, and movie posters. That kinda thing. Increasingly one of my favorite parts.

A lot of art and storytelling advice on the internet is aesthetic preference stated as rules, really.

I think theres quite a lot to that, like a certain guided curation because even at a distance it feels a little more connected knowing someone had a hand in it.

Oh yeah, I can see the comparison point on certain things. Especially collectibles! Ive been seeing bookstores with books for sale in brown paper bags with nothing more than a genre labeled to them. Which I think is an interesting parallel or outgrowth.