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Valley of the Silk Sky: “The Long Run” – page 45

In this flashback, Razi does battle with the most terrifying monster of all: INTRACTABLE BUREAUCRACY

Also! I’ve made a public Patreon post to discuss the clothing styles on display in this page. If you wanna do a little world-building nerd-out, go peep it.

Valley of the Silk Sky page 44, and ALPHABET reminder

What excitements are in store with the latest page of VoSS? Find out on:

the Valley of the Silk Sky tumblr
Tapastic
Studio NDR

Can you believe I actually deliberated over whether or not to have the bug leg sticking out of Hali’s mouth in that last panel? Good thing I came to my senses.

Have YOU come to your senses and backed the ALPHABET Kickstarter yet?

There’s a little over a week to go, and still a chunk (but a doable chunk) of money to be raised. Northwest Press is hosting a free preview of the book, if you need to read a bit before making a decision. Check it out!

Did I show you the sneak peek of my illustration for the coloring book? If not, observe:

So! Get on there and snag a copy, yeah?

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: “The Long Run” – page 44

Can you believe I actually deliberated over whether or not to have the bug leg sticking out of Hali’s mouth in that last panel? Good thing I came to my senses.

Valley of the Silk Sky page 43 wants to know if you’re hungry

VoSS page 43 is up, and it asks the important question: do you prefer orange meat or yellow meat? As you ponder your answer, read the new page here:

on the VoSS Tumblr
on Tapastic
on Studio NDR

Difficult to choose, isn’t it?

Less difficult choices #1: if you’re in Denver, come to the Denver Drink & Draw comics reading at Mutiny Information Cafe this Saturday, Dec. 12. There’ll be several of us doing live readings of our comics, and there will, of course, be books for sale as well. Excite!

Less difficult choices #2: backing the ALPHABET Kickstarter!

There’s about two weeks left on the campaign, and a new backer award in the form of a QUILTBAG tote bag. That’s right, I said a QUILTBAG TOTE BAG. Clearly a queer necessity.

Plus, wonder of wonders, you can tote your ALPHABET anthology book and your queer coloring book in your QUILTBAG tote bag. Amaze.

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: “The Long Run” – page 43

So. Do you prefer yellow meat or orange meat?

VoSS page 42, Northwest Press sale, ALPHABET Kickstarter oh my

First up, new page of Valley of the Silk Sky! In which we learn that Hali is prone to overexplaining things out of nervousness. Read it:

on the VoSS website
on Tapastic
on Studio NDR

Hali’s dialogue includes a string of Daraz script. If you want to nerd out about the Daraz writing system, might I recommend this blog post over on the Vally of the Silk Sky website.

If you DON’T want to nerd out about it, well, fine. Whatever. Be that way.

Nerd out about this instead:

Northwest Press is having a 40% off sale through December 7, which means you can get a big ol’ pile of queer comics for cheap! That includes my books Transposes and Politically InQueerect, and of course QU33R, the Ignatz Award-winning anthology I’m in.

And if you already have all those? Well, good on ya, first of all. But there’s a ton of other new and awesome things to grab, and now is a great time to do it. Might I recommend the complete Ethan Green collection?

Finally, don’t forget to back the ALPHABET Kickstarter, and help bring even more queer comics into the world. I have a new piece in this book, as does Eric Orner (author of the aforementioned Ethan Green), as well as a ton of other great creators: Melanie Gillman, Ed Luce, Dax Tran-Caffee, Ajuan Mance, Robert Kirby, Jennifer Camper, and more.

One of the things I really like about this book is how it showcases both established creators and new faces. Guaranteed you’ll find a new artist in here whose work you’ll enjoy. There’s a good mix of trans and asexual creators as well, and several bisexual/pansexual folks, and several people of color. So really, a wide range of representation, and a very worthy collection of comics.

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: “The Long Run” – page 42

Hali’s dialogue includes a string of Daraz script. If you want to nerd out about the Daraz writing system, might I recommend this blog post over on the Vally of the Silk Sky website.

If you DON’T want to nerd out about it, well, fine. Whatever. Be that way.

VoSS page 41, ALPHABET queer comics anthology

Valley of the Silk Sky page 41 is here, and it is intent on diagnosing your ailments:

on the VoSS tumblr
on Tapastic
on Studio NDR

I am currently working on finishing the pencils for chapter 4, which I can hopefully wrap up by the end of the week, and therefore continue to publish the chapter without interruption. Things been busy!

MEANWHILE, you have a chance to acquire even more queer comics. Observe:

ALPHABET, the lgbtqai comics anthology, is now up on Kickstarter. I have a new exclusive comic in this book, alongside many other amazing creators. The list includes Ahri Almeida, Elizabeth Beier, Christianne Benedict, Bex, Jennifer Camper, Vi Cao, Tyler Cohen, Howard Cruse, Dave Davenport, Tana Ford, Melanie Gillman, Diego Gomez, Soizick Jaffre, Emeric Kennard, Robert Kirby, Hanna-Pirita Lehkonen, Ed Luce, Steve MacIsaac, Hazel Newlevant, Hanna Oliver, Eric Orner, David Quantic, Carlo Quispe, Sonya Saturday, Mike Sullivan, Dax Tran-Caffee, Josh Trujillo, Kelsey Wroten, and many more!

I mean, dang. IN ADDITION to all that comics goodness, there’s also a coloring book, yes a COLORING BOOK offered as an incentive. The book features a number of different artists illustrating their queer heroes, and I chose to draw Edward Gorey. I have to say, I had way too much fun doing that drawing, which means YOU will have way too much fun coloring it.

So. Get on there and grab yerself some queer comics!

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: “The Long Run” – page 41

Razi’s decision making process in a nutshell: Not at all sure this is a good idea, but doing something is better than doing nothing.

Laffs aplenty on Valley of the Silk Sky page 40, and Trans Awareness Week bump

Finally we get some merriment and chuckles in VoSS. Observe:

on the VoSS Tumblr
on Tapastic
on Studio NDR

[No body parts were dissolved in the making of this comic.]

Also, this is Trans Awareness Week (Nov. 14-20, 2015), so JUUUUUST in case you missed it, you can read my new comic on transgender representation in media over at Fusion:

I would really like to push this comic out to all the various transgender resource organizations out there, so if you know of one, it would be a huge help to me if you could share this comic with them.

Thank you!

Dylan