As I write this, Bend Oregon is heading into its fifth consecutive day with a median AQI of over 400. That’s on beyond Unhealthy, Very Unhealthy, and solidly into the Hazardous zone. It looks hazardous, too. Particulate matter is so thick the trees across the street are cloaked in haze and Pilot Butte, normally visible …
I don’t normally share interior illustrations online, but considering the amount of work that went into the ones for Lucena in the House of Madgrin, and how well they came out, and that as the publisher I possess the rights to do so, and that we are living through a global crisis, I figured this …
They are here! Finally! Of course they’ve been available as eBooks and from Amazon for almost a month, but now I have them in stock at the Heliopause Webstore! You can order directly from there—with Apple/Google Pay, no less! Magic link is here. Thank you everyone who’s supported me here and everywhere and especially on …
Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy I wanted to do something for Pride. I wanted to do something for Black Lives Matter. So here is a dark …
This little colored pencil portrait of the Heliopause mascot, Astrhopi the Heliopause Pony, has been kicking around my workspace for several months. As I’ve just finished one big project (the Lucena cover) and am beginning another (Professor Odd Season Two), I took the opportunity to finish her. I am very happy, not least because this …
It snowed the weekend they closed the pool, which meant I had four days of nothing but kettlebells before I dared go out on the bike. Those four days have been the hardest so far, except maybe the ones that I was actually sick, but at the same time they were comforting. Nothing makes me …
These began as a way for me to print my own stationary for use writing thank you notes and suchlike, but when Leslie at Rose City ComicCon reached out asking if I had any coloring pages or similar to donate to their RC Jr. At Home series, to help parents who are suddenly having to …
First I want to tell you about drowning. I currently work as a professional lifeguard, so drowning is something I’ve had to study. As we understand it, drowning is a process. Specifically it is asphyxiation due to submersion or immersion in water. A person who has drowned will have one of three outcomes: survival with …
Got everything packed. Doggo got to come with since she could stay with brother at his house in San Jose and so leaving was easier than it sometimes is. On the other hand we got to experience the full spectrum of Winter Driving Conditions, from snow and ice on 97 to high gusting winds at …
To close out the year, the decade, and my Planet Horse series, here is Ceres, Queen of the Asteroid Belt. Since I added Pluto (and Charon) last year I felt it would be fitting to pay homage to another important celestial object—and a very important goddess. Like all my Planet Horses this piece was done …
