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.
It's telling-- about sexuality, modeling, and Bettie Page in particular. Her clothed shoots are almost always alluring and playful-- and the nudes (I've seen), well, many are as frank as a pelvic exam. The playfulness is gone.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's telling-- about sexuality, modeling, and Bettie Page in particular. Her clothed shoots are almost always alluring and playful-- and the nudes (I've seen), well, many are as frank as a pelvic exam. The playfulness is gone.
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Conan the Barbarian #26 ON SALE TOMORROW!
(W) Jim Zub (A) Fernando Dagnino (C) Diego Rodriguez
JUMPING-ON POINT AS A BRAND-NEW CONAN ARC BEGINS HERE!
Buy online at tinyurl.com/2m62j86w or in your local comic book store!
#conanthebarbarian #comicbooks
(W) Jim Zub (A) Fernando Dagnino (C) Diego Rodriguez
JUMPING-ON POINT AS A BRAND-NEW CONAN ARC BEGINS HERE!
Buy online at tinyurl.com/2m62j86w or in your local comic book store!
#conanthebarbarian #comicbooks
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Conan the Barbarian #26 ON SALE TOMORROW!
(W) Jim Zub (A) Fernando Dagnino (C) Diego Rodriguez
JUMPING-ON POINT AS A BRAND-NEW CONAN ARC BEGINS HERE!
Buy online at tinyurl.com/2m62j86w or in your local comic book store!
#conanthebarbarian #comicbooks
(W) Jim Zub (A) Fernando Dagnino (C) Diego Rodriguez
JUMPING-ON POINT AS A BRAND-NEW CONAN ARC BEGINS HERE!
Buy online at tinyurl.com/2m62j86w or in your local comic book store!
#conanthebarbarian #comicbooks
Latest read, Shane (1949) by Jack Schaefer; read this story, of a gunman siding with a homesteader against cattlemen, in the 8th grade.
And--it's fine school curriculum. About integrity, fidelity, courage, pride of ownership, & force as a last resort.
It's direct (as Westerns are). Loved it
#BookSky
And--it's fine school curriculum. About integrity, fidelity, courage, pride of ownership, & force as a last resort.
It's direct (as Westerns are). Loved it
#BookSky
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Latest read, Shane (1949) by Jack Schaefer; read this story, of a gunman siding with a homesteader against cattlemen, in the 8th grade.
And--it's fine school curriculum. About integrity, fidelity, courage, pride of ownership, & force as a last resort.
It's direct (as Westerns are). Loved it
#BookSky
And--it's fine school curriculum. About integrity, fidelity, courage, pride of ownership, & force as a last resort.
It's direct (as Westerns are). Loved it
#BookSky
👍
Call me Solomon.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
👍
Melville has the same gravitas found in sword and sorcery.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Melville has the same gravitas found in sword and sorcery.
Earlier this year I mentioned how Melville's Moby Dick influenced my writing of Howardian heroes.
'Tis true. 'Tis true.
'Tis true. 'Tis true.
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Earlier this year I mentioned how Melville's Moby Dick influenced my writing of Howardian heroes.
'Tis true. 'Tis true.
'Tis true. 'Tis true.
Reading a wide range of books will develop in you a healthy shield against 'group think'.
It will strengthen your individualism while enhancing your empathy.
#BookSky
It will strengthen your individualism while enhancing your empathy.
#BookSky
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Reading a wide range of books will develop in you a healthy shield against 'group think'.
It will strengthen your individualism while enhancing your empathy.
#BookSky
It will strengthen your individualism while enhancing your empathy.
#BookSky
I started a post about subjects I've focused on or obsessed about. Began making a list.
It became too long very quickly.
But it explained where the years went.
It became too long very quickly.
But it explained where the years went.
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I started a post about subjects I've focused on or obsessed about. Began making a list.
It became too long very quickly.
But it explained where the years went.
It became too long very quickly.
But it explained where the years went.
Inexpensive games:
Cat Toy or Hairball.
Walk through the house with nothing but the night lights on. Is that a cat toy or a hairball?
Touch it. If it's wet, you lose.
Cat Toy or Hairball.
Walk through the house with nothing but the night lights on. Is that a cat toy or a hairball?
Touch it. If it's wet, you lose.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Inexpensive games:
Cat Toy or Hairball.
Walk through the house with nothing but the night lights on. Is that a cat toy or a hairball?
Touch it. If it's wet, you lose.
Cat Toy or Hairball.
Walk through the house with nothing but the night lights on. Is that a cat toy or a hairball?
Touch it. If it's wet, you lose.
By practice, artists mean:
Learning/refining to the point you improve beyond where you started.
Learning from others and/or paying attention to a wide range of styles or approaches.
And a little reflection with regard to what you're doing.
Learning/refining to the point you improve beyond where you started.
Learning from others and/or paying attention to a wide range of styles or approaches.
And a little reflection with regard to what you're doing.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
By practice, artists mean:
Learning/refining to the point you improve beyond where you started.
Learning from others and/or paying attention to a wide range of styles or approaches.
And a little reflection with regard to what you're doing.
Learning/refining to the point you improve beyond where you started.
Learning from others and/or paying attention to a wide range of styles or approaches.
And a little reflection with regard to what you're doing.
The 50 yr mortgage is a trap.
If you have to move in the first 25 yrs, you'll have no more equity than closing costs. The bank is richer, and you won't be able to afford your next home.
The solution is a healthy wage to housing ratio, not more money for the banks.
www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...
If you have to move in the first 25 yrs, you'll have no more equity than closing costs. The bank is richer, and you won't be able to afford your next home.
The solution is a healthy wage to housing ratio, not more money for the banks.
www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...
50-year mortgage rate would add about 86% more interest over life of loans
Experts warn that a 50-year mortgage would end up costing American borrowers much more in interests than a 30-year standard loan.
www.newsweek.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The 50 yr mortgage is a trap.
If you have to move in the first 25 yrs, you'll have no more equity than closing costs. The bank is richer, and you won't be able to afford your next home.
The solution is a healthy wage to housing ratio, not more money for the banks.
www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...
If you have to move in the first 25 yrs, you'll have no more equity than closing costs. The bank is richer, and you won't be able to afford your next home.
The solution is a healthy wage to housing ratio, not more money for the banks.
www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...
Joyce Carol Oates takes on other people are much better than their takes on her.
She's an incredible writer.
Quit demanding writers agree with ALL of your personal ideas. Stop confusing a good book for a pat on the back.
She's an incredible writer.
Quit demanding writers agree with ALL of your personal ideas. Stop confusing a good book for a pat on the back.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Joyce Carol Oates takes on other people are much better than their takes on her.
She's an incredible writer.
Quit demanding writers agree with ALL of your personal ideas. Stop confusing a good book for a pat on the back.
She's an incredible writer.
Quit demanding writers agree with ALL of your personal ideas. Stop confusing a good book for a pat on the back.
I'm just like you.
Only I'm more boring.
Only I'm more boring.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I'm just like you.
Only I'm more boring.
Only I'm more boring.
My daughter's new puppy. Her mother-in-law told my daughter the puppy's not that cute.
I face-palmed.
1) she is THAT cute
2) why would she say that?
I face-palmed.
1) she is THAT cute
2) why would she say that?
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My daughter's new puppy. Her mother-in-law told my daughter the puppy's not that cute.
I face-palmed.
1) she is THAT cute
2) why would she say that?
I face-palmed.
1) she is THAT cute
2) why would she say that?
Have a mass text that's been going on for two years that includes my kids and their spouses.
With them 2000 miles away it's essential.
Not all tech is bad.
With them 2000 miles away it's essential.
Not all tech is bad.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Have a mass text that's been going on for two years that includes my kids and their spouses.
With them 2000 miles away it's essential.
Not all tech is bad.
With them 2000 miles away it's essential.
Not all tech is bad.
an unpublished page I drew, featuring late 70s/early 80s era Hulk
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
an unpublished page I drew, featuring late 70s/early 80s era Hulk
Drawing with only one hand free, a lot, lately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Drawing with only one hand free, a lot, lately.
I wish people actually DID read performatively. Just standing on a box, reading good books aloud. Richard Wright and Bellow in Chicago, Kesey and LeGuin in Portland, Kingsolver and Abbey in Tucson, Portis and Angelou in Little Rock.
I would tip.
I would cheer.
I would tip.
I would cheer.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I wish people actually DID read performatively. Just standing on a box, reading good books aloud. Richard Wright and Bellow in Chicago, Kesey and LeGuin in Portland, Kingsolver and Abbey in Tucson, Portis and Angelou in Little Rock.
I would tip.
I would cheer.
I would tip.
I would cheer.
Saving this for when I'm accused of flirting.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Saving this for when I'm accused of flirting.
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My wife said if I eat this big a lunch I'm going to fall aslee-- zzzzzzz-- khkhkhwhaa (apnea)-- zzzzzzzzzzzz
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My wife said if I eat this big a lunch I'm going to fall aslee-- zzzzzzz-- khkhkhwhaa (apnea)-- zzzzzzzzzzzz
People are being accused of "reading performatively", that is reading in public as a way of showing off or 'looking cool'?
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
People are being accused of "reading performatively", that is reading in public as a way of showing off or 'looking cool'?
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
Latest read, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by GK Chesterton; an investigation into an anarchic plot becomes a metaphysical revelation.
Unique and amusing.
Fond of fantasies in which curtains part, layers are peeled away, to reveal true natures & realities.
Loved it even more this time.
#BookSky
Unique and amusing.
Fond of fantasies in which curtains part, layers are peeled away, to reveal true natures & realities.
Loved it even more this time.
#BookSky
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Latest read, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by GK Chesterton; an investigation into an anarchic plot becomes a metaphysical revelation.
Unique and amusing.
Fond of fantasies in which curtains part, layers are peeled away, to reveal true natures & realities.
Loved it even more this time.
#BookSky
Unique and amusing.
Fond of fantasies in which curtains part, layers are peeled away, to reveal true natures & realities.
Loved it even more this time.
#BookSky
If I had to guess, I'd say 90% of book covers are created by someone who never read the entire book.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If I had to guess, I'd say 90% of book covers are created by someone who never read the entire book.
'It really pains us to pass this huge tax break for ourselves.'
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
'It really pains us to pass this huge tax break for ourselves.'