Patch Zircher
@patrickzircher.bsky.social
Writer. Artist. Colorist. Making new Solomon Kane adventures and Savage Sword of Conan stories for Heroic Signature & Titan Comics!
Drawn hundreds of comics for 'the other guys'.
Drawn hundreds of comics for 'the other guys'.
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Patch Zircher
@patrickzircher.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Writing, drawing, and coloring the adventures of Solomon Kane -- living Sword of Vengeance who wanders a fantastical 16th century.
I am also writing stories for The Savage Sword of Conan magazine, published by Heroic and Titan comics.
I love making these stories.
Thank you for looking.
I am also writing stories for The Savage Sword of Conan magazine, published by Heroic and Titan comics.
I love making these stories.
Thank you for looking.
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If you still think they didn't have Epstein murdered, raise your hand.
The hand you're holding your coffee with.
Now pour the coffee on your head.
The hand you're holding your coffee with.
Now pour the coffee on your head.
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
If you still think they didn't have Epstein murdered, raise your hand.
The hand you're holding your coffee with.
Now pour the coffee on your head.
The hand you're holding your coffee with.
Now pour the coffee on your head.
David Trampier art.
Beloved of a generation of D&D players.
Beloved of a generation of D&D players.
February 4, 2026 at 10:27 AM
David Trampier art.
Beloved of a generation of D&D players.
Beloved of a generation of D&D players.
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This is the last of the three illustrations that I made for Old School Adventures 1, and also my favorite. I enjoyed a lot to design that mutant guy. May he be and enemy or an ally?
@goodmangames.bsky.social #DnD #Art #Dungeonsanddragons5e #illustration
@goodmangames.bsky.social #DnD #Art #Dungeonsanddragons5e #illustration
February 4, 2026 at 10:14 AM
This is the last of the three illustrations that I made for Old School Adventures 1, and also my favorite. I enjoyed a lot to design that mutant guy. May he be and enemy or an ally?
@goodmangames.bsky.social #DnD #Art #Dungeonsanddragons5e #illustration
@goodmangames.bsky.social #DnD #Art #Dungeonsanddragons5e #illustration
Latest read (audio), Vol 3, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) by Edward Gibbon; with emperors Julian, Jovian, Gratian, Arcadius, and the Huns, Goths, Vandals, & Gauls, and the end of paganism.
Gibbon devoted decades of his life to this remarkable work.
Rome didn't fall in a day :)
#BookSky
Gibbon devoted decades of his life to this remarkable work.
Rome didn't fall in a day :)
#BookSky
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Latest read (audio), Vol 3, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) by Edward Gibbon; with emperors Julian, Jovian, Gratian, Arcadius, and the Huns, Goths, Vandals, & Gauls, and the end of paganism.
Gibbon devoted decades of his life to this remarkable work.
Rome didn't fall in a day :)
#BookSky
Gibbon devoted decades of his life to this remarkable work.
Rome didn't fall in a day :)
#BookSky
Writing a really difficult scene to draw, when you're going to draw it, is the same impulse as touching a hot burner.
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Writing a really difficult scene to draw, when you're going to draw it, is the same impulse as touching a hot burner.
I bought a box of fruit snack packs like I use to buy when the kids were little.
Finally, I get to eat them.
Finally, I get to eat them.
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 AM
I bought a box of fruit snack packs like I use to buy when the kids were little.
Finally, I get to eat them.
Finally, I get to eat them.
Don't be flippant and carefree, this is BlueSky.
February 4, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Don't be flippant and carefree, this is BlueSky.
Febreze can be cologne if it has to be.
February 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Febreze can be cologne if it has to be.
Latest read (audio), War and Peace (1867) by Leo Tolstoy; a massive (Really Massive) novel of the lives of a large cast of characters, primarily aristocrats, and the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
It's terrific, though the epilogues, discourses on the nature of history & free will (cont)
It's terrific, though the epilogues, discourses on the nature of history & free will (cont)
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Latest read (audio), War and Peace (1867) by Leo Tolstoy; a massive (Really Massive) novel of the lives of a large cast of characters, primarily aristocrats, and the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
It's terrific, though the epilogues, discourses on the nature of history & free will (cont)
It's terrific, though the epilogues, discourses on the nature of history & free will (cont)
:)
Thank you.
You'd think, with this amount of control, the story would be 'locked down'. But "it's alive!"-- scenes still shift and change, undergo refinement, nearly every day.
🎵
From my heart and from my hand
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces
--and creation
🎵
Thank you.
You'd think, with this amount of control, the story would be 'locked down'. But "it's alive!"-- scenes still shift and change, undergo refinement, nearly every day.
🎵
From my heart and from my hand
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces
--and creation
🎵
I love the One Man Army Corp deployment in your comics.
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
:)
Thank you.
You'd think, with this amount of control, the story would be 'locked down'. But "it's alive!"-- scenes still shift and change, undergo refinement, nearly every day.
🎵
From my heart and from my hand
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces
--and creation
🎵
Thank you.
You'd think, with this amount of control, the story would be 'locked down'. But "it's alive!"-- scenes still shift and change, undergo refinement, nearly every day.
🎵
From my heart and from my hand
Plastic tubes and pots and pans
Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces
--and creation
🎵
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In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 AM
In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
Be as self-satisfied and happy as my cat is when she pushes the bathroom door open.
February 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Be as self-satisfied and happy as my cat is when she pushes the bathroom door open.
Thanks :)
There's a mistake almost all schools make regarding essay writing. They don't encourage a love of essay reading first.
Enjoying reading essays is how I learned to enjoy writing them.
There's a mistake almost all schools make regarding essay writing. They don't encourage a love of essay reading first.
Enjoying reading essays is how I learned to enjoy writing them.
We weren't discouraged to write, we were made to write a LOT of essays instead of creative works.
Your school benefited the world greatly.
Your school benefited the world greatly.
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Thanks :)
There's a mistake almost all schools make regarding essay writing. They don't encourage a love of essay reading first.
Enjoying reading essays is how I learned to enjoy writing them.
There's a mistake almost all schools make regarding essay writing. They don't encourage a love of essay reading first.
Enjoying reading essays is how I learned to enjoy writing them.
I should teach people how to make comics.
It's not about then was good, now is bad.
Or now is good, then was bad.
It's about recognizing the good and applying it, wherever (whenever) it comes from.
It's not about then was good, now is bad.
Or now is good, then was bad.
It's about recognizing the good and applying it, wherever (whenever) it comes from.
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I should teach people how to make comics.
It's not about then was good, now is bad.
Or now is good, then was bad.
It's about recognizing the good and applying it, wherever (whenever) it comes from.
It's not about then was good, now is bad.
Or now is good, then was bad.
It's about recognizing the good and applying it, wherever (whenever) it comes from.
I love that colorist.
It's me :)
It's me :)
That mountain is great. You and the colorist both did an excellent job.
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 AM
I love that colorist.
It's me :)
It's me :)
These two pages demonstrate how I feel about it.
Drawing a background is important.
Focus-- and having just a suggestive background is also important.
Drawing a background is important.
Focus-- and having just a suggestive background is also important.
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
These two pages demonstrate how I feel about it.
Drawing a background is important.
Focus-- and having just a suggestive background is also important.
Drawing a background is important.
Focus-- and having just a suggestive background is also important.
Really, 99% of what i post is intended as "this is how I'd do it" not "this is right and that is wrong".
It just gets tiresome to constantly qualify or excuse what I say. The downside of posting rather than face-to-face conversation, where a quick smile, grin, or shrug waves away contentiousness.
It just gets tiresome to constantly qualify or excuse what I say. The downside of posting rather than face-to-face conversation, where a quick smile, grin, or shrug waves away contentiousness.
There is a wide world of difference between “this is how I’d do it” and “this is right/wrong,” and so I like how you’re phrasing it because that helps me clarify it in my own head!
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Really, 99% of what i post is intended as "this is how I'd do it" not "this is right and that is wrong".
It just gets tiresome to constantly qualify or excuse what I say. The downside of posting rather than face-to-face conversation, where a quick smile, grin, or shrug waves away contentiousness.
It just gets tiresome to constantly qualify or excuse what I say. The downside of posting rather than face-to-face conversation, where a quick smile, grin, or shrug waves away contentiousness.
Just smelled fresh baked glazed donut so strongly I craved it.
There isn't one anywhere in the house.
This is, I guess, Phantosmia. I get it with whiskey, cigarettes, tuna noodle casserole, movie popcorn.
Apparently it's not good, as much as I kinda enjoy it:
There isn't one anywhere in the house.
This is, I guess, Phantosmia. I get it with whiskey, cigarettes, tuna noodle casserole, movie popcorn.
Apparently it's not good, as much as I kinda enjoy it:
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Just smelled fresh baked glazed donut so strongly I craved it.
There isn't one anywhere in the house.
This is, I guess, Phantosmia. I get it with whiskey, cigarettes, tuna noodle casserole, movie popcorn.
Apparently it's not good, as much as I kinda enjoy it:
There isn't one anywhere in the house.
This is, I guess, Phantosmia. I get it with whiskey, cigarettes, tuna noodle casserole, movie popcorn.
Apparently it's not good, as much as I kinda enjoy it:
Almost every time I ask Laura to take a reference photo (which isn't often or she'd remember) I have to say chest level, shoot from the chest level or even midriff.
It's one of the first things mentioned in most cinematography books.
The camera is lower than the eye throughout most movies we watch.
It's one of the first things mentioned in most cinematography books.
The camera is lower than the eye throughout most movies we watch.
February 3, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Almost every time I ask Laura to take a reference photo (which isn't often or she'd remember) I have to say chest level, shoot from the chest level or even midriff.
It's one of the first things mentioned in most cinematography books.
The camera is lower than the eye throughout most movies we watch.
It's one of the first things mentioned in most cinematography books.
The camera is lower than the eye throughout most movies we watch.
I agree. It's actually nervy that Kubrick chose that one-perspective shot so often. It's kind of 'alien' to how we think, and how we look around at the world, not centering our focus all the time.
This is extremely interesting to me because, as someone who’s not a professional artist, I find myself drifting against that sort of composition even while taking a photograph. I kinda increasingly like things off-center.
(Not like I’m looking at using Dutch angles all the time or anything.)
(Not like I’m looking at using Dutch angles all the time or anything.)
February 3, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I agree. It's actually nervy that Kubrick chose that one-perspective shot so often. It's kind of 'alien' to how we think, and how we look around at the world, not centering our focus all the time.
The older I get, the more I want to draw one-point perspective comic panels, the 'Kubrick' shot.
I don't know why, maybe there's an appeal to being unflinchingly direct, exposed. Or it's the anti-thesis of superhero work, which bounces everywhere. Or the attraction you feel to calm as you get older.
I don't know why, maybe there's an appeal to being unflinchingly direct, exposed. Or it's the anti-thesis of superhero work, which bounces everywhere. Or the attraction you feel to calm as you get older.
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 AM
The older I get, the more I want to draw one-point perspective comic panels, the 'Kubrick' shot.
I don't know why, maybe there's an appeal to being unflinchingly direct, exposed. Or it's the anti-thesis of superhero work, which bounces everywhere. Or the attraction you feel to calm as you get older.
I don't know why, maybe there's an appeal to being unflinchingly direct, exposed. Or it's the anti-thesis of superhero work, which bounces everywhere. Or the attraction you feel to calm as you get older.
There's so often two kinds of brain power.
The kid who gets "A+"s in English/Writing-related classes but stares at Algebra and Geometry like "Why are you doing this to me."
And the math wiz who screams at a Creative Writing course, "There are no definitive answers! That's just your opinion!"
The kid who gets "A+"s in English/Writing-related classes but stares at Algebra and Geometry like "Why are you doing this to me."
And the math wiz who screams at a Creative Writing course, "There are no definitive answers! That's just your opinion!"
February 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
There's so often two kinds of brain power.
The kid who gets "A+"s in English/Writing-related classes but stares at Algebra and Geometry like "Why are you doing this to me."
And the math wiz who screams at a Creative Writing course, "There are no definitive answers! That's just your opinion!"
The kid who gets "A+"s in English/Writing-related classes but stares at Algebra and Geometry like "Why are you doing this to me."
And the math wiz who screams at a Creative Writing course, "There are no definitive answers! That's just your opinion!"
My wife arched her eyebrow when I bought this.
She knew.
She knew.
I bought Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics.
And even though it's written in approachable language, about half way in I realized I'm more feeble-minded than I thought.
And even though it's written in approachable language, about half way in I realized I'm more feeble-minded than I thought.
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 AM
My wife arched her eyebrow when I bought this.
She knew.
She knew.
Whenever I think, "Hey, I'm pretty smart", I look at math formulas and return to normal.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Whenever I think, "Hey, I'm pretty smart", I look at math formulas and return to normal.