Some updatery

My review of City Slab #12 is now live at The Fix Online. Go on, check it out.

I worked on artsy stuff for most of the weekend. Got some comics done for the ones for The Stars Down Under, as well as MyLifeComics. I even doodled! It's been ages since I just sat and...doodled!

Today I went to the park for the first time in many months. To say it was divine would not even come close to describing the experience.

I still plan on submitting a story to the new open submissions period for Sword and Sorceress, but I started another piece for the time being. Sci-fi and about food. Everyone knows I'm a foodwhore. So, yeah, I'm working on this one for a bit.

And lastly, Battlestar Galactica has been great so far. I only wish it was back on Sunday nights.

There you go. Five random things makes an entry.

Jack Kirby cover gallery

Yesterday was his birthday. He would've been 90 years old.



There's a kickass cover gallery of some of The King's work over at Marvel.com that is worth checking out. My personal favorites are his renditions of Thor and the early X-men. Kirby's style is both iconic and energetic, being an inspiration to all those that followed in his footsteps. Looking over all this, I'm reminded of a time when Photoshop didn't exist. When filters and glares were irrelevant. It was an era when pencil met paper, and a vision was created. The King did it so easily, so earnestly, and that's what is most admirable of his work.

Artwork preview

Head on over to Murky Depths to check out a .PDF file of the Table of Contents for their first issue. You can see snippets of the artwork that accompanies each story, and I'm really diggin' the one for my piece of flash fiction "67442." This is the first time I've ever had commissioned artwork to go along with my story. I'm very excited to see the final piece. Issues are going out to contributors and subscribers some time during the first week of August. Eep! Yay artwork!

You don't want to miss out on this one, folks.

Cool cover art

Here's the cover art for the first issue of Murky Depths, which my story "67442" will be appearing in:



Very excited about this. The lineup looks awesome, and hey, check out that fish-monster-woman-thingy. You know that's just so freaking scary that you'd have to buy an issue so that it wouldn't chase you in your nightmares.

Miscellaneous shtuff...

Got Justina Robson's Keeping It Real in the mail today.

I've finally gotten around to finishing a story, which is now going through a second reading and a quick set of line edits and then it's poof out into the real world with it. These things grow up so fast.

"Hold notice" from Andromeda Spaceway Inflight Magazine on a story of mine, letting me know it's made it through the first round.

And to round out this lovely little bit of randomness, here's a sketch of an armless monster on a Post-It, inspired by the work of Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster:

It was a dark and stormy night

I completely forgot that I wanted to post about this...

Back in January, Jason Sizemore, editor and supreme being who makes old ladies cry at fast food joints, posted the artwork that will be used for issue nine of Apex Digest. Since my piece of flash fiction "Sonorous" will be in this issue, let me just say that I'm ecstatic over the artwork, almost to the point of drooling. Can't wait to see the final mockup...