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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'.
The Seth Compton verse is relevant as ever (-- all of the verses are).
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Examples from The Spoon River Anthology; a fragment from the Willie Metcalf verse, and Dorcas Gustine verse:
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Latest read, Spoon River Anthology (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters; those buried in Spoon River, Illinois each have a story to tell. And, through these free verses, various aspects of life are explored.
This was the first book of poetry I ever bought-- and it was a great choice. Still wonderful
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Latest read (audio), Uprooted (2015) by Naomi Novik; a village girl, Agniezska, is chosen by the solitary wizard, the Dragon, to be his apprentice--and together they battle a magic-corrupted monarchy.
A pleasant mainstream high fantasy.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My pick for the Perfect Album:

Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Barry Windsor Smith

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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Latest read, Zuleika Dobson (1911) by Max Beerbohm; lampoons class, honor, and youthful passion as Zuleika, the wayward granddaughter of a warden at Oxford, elicits a vow from the undergraduates (and a Duke) that they will not live without her love. A kind of screwball comedy for academia.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Latest read, Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte; a young governess endures brats & vain mistresses in this romantic, satisfying novel.
All three Bronte sisters debuted novels in 1847. Agnes Grey, the least famous compared to Wuthering Heights & Jane Eyre, is very charming with an endearing heroine.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our kitten has no boundaries. Loves our dog's belly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Latest read, The Labyrinth Makers (1970) by Anthony Price; the recovery of a lost R.A.F. plane and Russian agents sniffing around, draws a reluctant spy and the daughter of the R.A.F. pilot into a mystery.
Akin to Len Deighton w/ a touch of LeCarre and Ambler, this is a strong spy thriller.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Alack Guiness
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song
Play it one more time, play it all night long"
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Latest read (audio), The Hot Rock (1970) by Donald Westlake; an African Major hires Dortmunder and his accomplices to steal a national jewel, a great emerald, and because of a series of double-crosses, Dortmunder must steal the 'hot rock' again and again.
Fast and funny, a... gem.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Latest read, Trust (2022) by Hernan Diaz; told in 4 narratives until it arrives at the disturbing truth about the relationship between a powerful Wall Street tycoon & his wife. A Pulitzer-winner about arrogance, shame, the corruptibility of power, and the disenfranchisement of women.
Great.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Latest read, History of the American Frontier (1925) by Frederic Paxson; this Pulitzer winner covers the political, geographic, & economic growth of the US after the 13 colonies. A vast subject handled deftly with a willingness to acknowledge, if concisely, corruption & exploitation.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
They have food, water, clean litter, they just don't have Mom.
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"He grunted at us. The audacity."
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've always liked it too. Used to buy sheets of it. It's painstaking work, laying it over art boards, cutting it with a blade, pressing it down.
You can do it digitally now. Lot of dot zips on the Iron Man and line zips on the Elektra:
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In that hour between Dunkin Donuts being open and the even better coffee shop opening. It's a "can I hold on" situation.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Don Newton's pencils were sumptuous, lots of varying value. But he died young before his work was well-catalogued and pencil examples are pretty much non-existent. But a page like this suggests how much pencil work he was doing.
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM