Tag Archives: Kekionga and the Knotted Rope Universe

gale, with eraser crumbs

Posted on April 23, 2018 by

If you don’t hear much for me this week, it’s because I wrote an entirely new 8 page minicomic early last Thursday morning, and I hope to be folding and stapling it this Thursday for SPACE this weekend.  It’s about … Continue reading →

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convention banner!

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

At last,  my convention banner is finished and ready to go.  Here is the final product set up in the kitchen as a test of the mechanism.  (Sorry it was a bit dark.)  My first impression is it is huge!  … Continue reading →

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“happy buddha bud”, the new cover

Posted on April 11, 2018 by

The new cover for Happy Buddha Bud is finished, and the reprints are printed and even partway folded.  This is one of the most important stories in the Kekionga canon*, and one of my all time favorites.  I’m very excited … Continue reading →

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on naming owls

Posted on March 30, 2018 by

Edison, Kekionga’s Radio Inventor, has been lurking around the edges of the cast for a while, taking part in stories yet to be drawn and making one cameo appearance a year or two ago.  He is finally appearing in continuity … Continue reading →

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the ghost catfish of kekionga : a twenty minute fiction

Posted on March 28, 2018 by

Ghost animals.  Spirit animals.  The People Who Lived Here before us called them that, the all white animals you see down in the Woods sometimes.  Grandpa Berry tells stories his grandma told him, and she said she heard them from … Continue reading →

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work in progress -should the grass be green?

Posted on March 16, 2018 by

Appropriately for March, I have gotten a wild March hare of an idea to make one of those convention banners that roll up into a handy little case that doubles as its own stand.  Everybody else has one, right?  So … Continue reading →

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cover pencils

Posted on March 7, 2018 by

The first of what I what I hope will be (and which darn well better be) a series of posts in the work-in-progress division of “around the studio”. First up are the pencils for the new cover for the reprint … Continue reading →

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sphinx in the library (a multimedia extravaganza)

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

It’s a drawing of the day!  It’s a poem!  It’s a bit of fun– slightly Poe-ish, but more in the direction of Kekionga based doggerel than that of serious Gothicness.  I wonder what happens when  a sphinx librarian meets a … Continue reading →

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mystery drawings

Posted on January 9, 2018 by

These are the base drawings for my experimental story for the Oh, Comics! anthology this year.  Any guesses as to what is going to be going on in Kekionga this week? And why are there two different versions of whatever … Continue reading →

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the possum lady of old kekionga

Posted on December 25, 2017 by

(Our now traditional post for Christmas night, an invented-on-the-spot bit of Kekionga folklore, originally posted in 2013.) One Christmas night we got home late from spending the holiday out of town.  Our dog sitter left the Japanese lantern on beside … Continue reading →

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