SPA-CON 2025’s POSTER REVEALED
SPA-CON 2025's POSTER REVEALED
Hey friends! Spa-Con just released the new poster for 2025’s convention. Happy to announce I’m back in the saddle doing the art for it! I’m really stoked how this one came out. Spa-Con 2025 will be September 19-21 next year. I’ll almost certainly be there, and hope to see you there as well. More info at their website.
One Hell of a Night
ONE HELL OF A NIGHT
I can’t express how grateful I am to all of y’all for showing up at Pearl’s Books on December 4th for our little night of ghosts stories and folk music. I’ve mused about it before (but never on this blog, so get ready for a rerun) but a lot of my actual work-life is pretty hermetic. Very easy to see it as existing in a vacuum. Which has it’s toll, especially when you are a pretty social guy with ascetic passion projects. Needless to say, I go into a public reading with the presumption of six people showing up and not a packed house. So seeing a standing room only crowd some already holding copies of Backwood Folk #1 is surreal beyond measure. For my ego’s sake, I can only presume the rest were there for the music.
But what music. I actually only met Christopher Felton in the prep for this event! Specifically we met on the radio for an Ozarks at Large segment on KUAF advertising the night, but we’ve circled each other’s orbits for something like 15 years. It’s a small region after all. Suffice to say I think we made a great match for New Ozark Ghosts. His inaugural performance with The Back Alley Orchestra was a sight to behold, and sounds to die for. It’s a scary thing starting new artistic endeavors in a region that slowly has strangled out most of it’s creative outlets. As with a lot of Fayetteville events recently it happened in the tenor of a celebration and a eulogy. Though I suppose those do intersect a lot.
But that’s a big reason to be thankful for Pearl’s. Still holding out a space for weird artists and writers to warble out the contents of their heads.
Thank you all again. It truly means the world.
New Ozarks Ghosts at Pearl’s Books
Hey friends, weird week.
Anyways, I’ll be at Pearl’s Books on the Fayetteville Square this December 4th to read some ghost stories I’ve written. Along side me will be Christopher Felton of Southern Terminus Recording to perform some folk songs (with some special guests) These are gunna be my stab at contemporary folk tales. Aka right in line with the stories in Backwood Folk. In fact, you might recognize some names and faces from the comic in some of the stories! If you’re in Northwest Arkansas this December, drop on by and hear some stories and some tunes.
Halloween on Little Rock Public Radio
HALLOWEEN ON LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC RADIO
Hello friends! Happy Halloween! I recently recorded a lovely little interview with Nathan Treece of Little Rock Public Radio for their Halloween programming. We go through a few of our regional monsters and cryptids, including some of the lesser known fellas. I also say some potentially controversial things about the Ozark Howler. Give it a listen!
The First Annual Halloween Haint Sale
Hello friends! Nothing too big to report *yet* A lot’s coming in as we get closer to the Holidays, but for today just an announcement of the first Halloween Haint Sale! The digital edition of Backwood Folk is now available for just $1 from October 30-November 3. A proper introductory price for an introductory issue. You can find it in the gift shop!
Look Ma, I’m on TV
As promised! Here is my appearance on Later with Jason Suel! We recorded this early September, and the funniest time stamp of that would be my hair. Have a system that somewhat developed on accident where I don’t cut my hair until I finish a project. And well my haircut was scheduled later that week. So you get real look at what I look like when I’m properly in hermit mode working on my comics.
Anyways, it’s a fun time and we get into Backwood Folk, Otterhead, the podcast, and my history of being a menace in bar room trivia.