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Retrospective Sketchbook: Now We Get Printed in Color!
The Retrospective Sketchbook project has just three days to go on Kickstarter. Over the weekend we cleared the “number of books” threshold that enables us to do offset printing (instead of...
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Retrospective Sketchbook: Two Weeks To Go!
“I think I’ll take up doodling as a hobby.” I said that to Sandra twenty-six years ago, in March of 2000. Less than four months later I’d launched Schlock Mercenary online. My writing decent, if...
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We All Have Rawwrs Together
I’m working on the bonus story, “Refulgence of Refuge,” and the final panel has to do quite a bit of heavy lifting. If you’re familiar with book 19 then you know (spoiler alert) that a civilization of...
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Progress Report: the Impact Panel
This took longer than I wanted it to. It’s for just one panel in the Book 19 bonus story, but it’s an important panel, and it needs to look good. In the amount of time I spent noodling on this? 2018’s...
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Hello, 2026, Let’s Look Back at 2025
I spent much of 2025 the way I spent 2023 and 2024: bulldozing speedbumps. It’s a metaphor I’ve deployed before. It means “identify things that create extra work, or stress, or pain, and remove them.”...
View ArticleGenCon Indy 2025
I’ll be at GenCon Indy from July 31st through August 3rd. You can find me with Jim Zub, Stacy King, and Sandra Tayler in Booth 1349.
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BOOK 19 Kickstarter: 10 Days Left
Somebody (probably Howard) forgot to post this news. You should have seen it three weeks ago. Whoops! We’re crowdfunding A FUNCTION OF FIREPOWER, and the project closes in just ten days. The cover...
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The Sketching Begins!
Book 18, Mandatory Failure, has arrived from the printer. I’ve signed about 2500 copies, and we’ve begun queueing those up for sketches. A few stacks of MANDATORY FAILURE awaiting sketches from Howard...
View Article2024 In Review
How did 2024 go for me? Well, the beginning of the answer to that question can be found in the date of this post. We’re two-thirds of the way through January and I’m only now finding the time and...
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Dragonsteel Nexus This Week!
Sandra and I will be at DragonSteel Nexus this week, signing, sketching, and saying hello from our booth in the Exhibitors Hall. For daily updates, you can follow us on BlueSky – howardtayler and...
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Structuring Life to Support Creativity
Sandra Tayler, whom you may know as the editor, publisher, project manager, and so much more behind Schlock Mercenary, is crowdfunding a book called STRUCTURING LIFE TO SUPPORT CREATIVITY....
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Years ago while trying to explain that a bad remake does not ruin your childhood, I described modern remakes as attempts to make money by “strip-mining nostalgia.” And before I explain the metaphor...
View ArticleImmersion, Emulsion, and No-Butter Hollandaise
I did not expect an immersion blender to become a kitchen essential for me, but that’s where I am now. I originally thought it’d be great for making milkshakes, but then I figured out water-in-oil...
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Slowing Down Is Hard to Do
Long COVID has made the last couple of months quite difficult for me. I supposed it’s inaccurate to say that slowing down has been hard for me to do, because I haven’t been given a choice in the...
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Saying Goodbye to Mike Byers
I met Mike Byers in 2009, and I only knew him for about one week each year. He passed away suddenly this weekend, and I wish I had known him better. I wish all of you could have known him better....
View ArticleOrigin Story: Maxim 32
Today’s the final day of (the final hours, at this point) of the Seventy Maxims Reprint project. Here, then is a nice origin story for you, the origin of Maxim 32. I was signing and sketching at...
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The Seventy Maxims Project
We’re reprinting the Seventy Maxims “defaced” edition, and the crowdfunding project for that wraps up in just under a week....
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The Two Chinooks
I finished painting the two Chinooks a couple of weeks ago, and have been busy layering stuff behind them for assorted desktop wallpapers and for the promised 8″x10″ print. Absent those layers, this...
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Painting The Chinooks
I’ve been working on the “Two Chinooks” print, which is one of the deliverables for the Mandatory Failure: Schlock Mercenary Book 18 project, and I’ve found it very relaxing. Here’s a progress shot. I...
View ArticleLong Covid And Me
It took way too long for us to figure it out, and that figuring is a story unto itself that is too long for this post, but I have Long Covid. The impact can best be summed up thusly: it is a...
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