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howardtayler.bsky.social
Vaxxed & 7x-Boosted, He/Him, Husband to Sandra Tayler, Father of Four, #mecfs/#LongCovid, howardtayler.com, schlockmercenary.com, writingexcuses.com
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submitted 466 days ago • 748 comments

I'm working on an energy effect for the final panel on a page, and "Kirby Krackle" brushes just don't give me the control I need. As anybody who cheats at games of chance can tell you, there's a HUGE difference between "that looks random" and "actually random."

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I reconfigured the boom on the Gravistation so the boom doesn't swing as far over the chair to get the Surface Pro position. This was accomplished via a cheese rod and a couple of jam nuts, and if cheese and jam sound tasty I'm very sorry but misused food words are part of the jargon.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Over a decade ago I wrote a pair of stories, "Flight of the Runewright" and "Fall of the Runewrought." I keep trying to find time to write more in the spooky, horror-magic setting of these stories, but until yesterday all I had was an outline. No, I didn't write yesterday. I drew a logo...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

#FundraiserPerk This copy of MANDATORY FAILURE by Howard Tayler is numbered sketch edition #666 and has deluxe colored sketch of Schlock, from the artist. Pick up this unique Schlock Mercenary and get it personalized to you! Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or link in bio! @howardtayler.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For the @writingexcuses.bsky.social & #comics crowd, I just had a thought which I need to send out into the wild. Many individual installments of four-panel comic strips (like my own SCHLOCK MERCENARY) can be effectively and meaningfully analyzed using the four-part Kishōtenketsu story structure.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment