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    Heroines Kickstarter Moratorium

    It’s with enormous gratitude and not a little sadness that I write my final message for this campaign. Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing proposition, and unfortunately, HEROINES didn’t reach its goal. Not this time, anyway. HEROINES is a very special book to me, and I will find a way to make it happen. But if Kickstarter is good for anything, it’s good for testing the waters. Right now, there just aren’t enough fans waiting for this book. I’m hoping to change that in the coming months. To that end, I’d like to ask you all to sign up for my mailing list. I’ll be sending out short monthly bulletins about HEROINES…

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    HEROINES Kickstarter Campaign week 3

    My campaign continues puffing along slowly. I want to thank all those who backed the book, and tell you how much your support has meant.  I just did an interview with Wolfen Moondaughter at Sequential Tart, which is now up. Thanks, Wolfie!  http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=3163 I want to reach out to you again here and now to please repost and plug the campaign as much as you can. As an independent creator, I’d be playing it safer if I had stuck to one series, one character. Doing a new project in a new genre with a new target audience always puts me back at square one. So everything you can do to…

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    The Punisher: Why Do I Love Tormented, Violent Heroes?

    Netflix is a part of my lifeline. I spend hours on end every day drawing, inking, etc. If I don’t have something to occupy mind, I get distracted and wander off. TV, good and bad, books on tape, podcasts, they help me focus. So alas, I’m more up on TV culture than comics culture.  Every once in awhile, a piece of media comes along I feel is worth discussing. I was surprised to find that the Punisher was one such show. So here’s an article I wrote with some thoughts on this show that filled me with complex, contradictory emotions. Take it as you will.    When I first set…