and unable to concentrate on the things I wanted to be working on, so in perfect logic I worked on something completely different and unrelated. Have some free art, based on a song--
"Artistic (?) Nudity" as they say, under the cut--

( The Cut - context to follow via YouTube )

--An animated show based on a series of books for younger readers, starring an Indian girl and her talking animal sidekicks, who have adventures throughout modern Britain and Europe meeting - and helping - dragons and other misunderstood mythic and magical beings as well as fighting ecological disaster, written by a feminist Asian lesbian author ( Read more... )

...with a female Paladin disguised as a man, sent by the ghost of Merlin the magician, meeting up with a halfling Thief, both of them competing to rescue a mixed-race Warrior, who is also a descendant of Hector and Andromache of Troy (their son Astyanax was secretly saved and hidden from the Greeks along with Hector's sword, which is an Augmented ( Read more... )

Given that I tend to trip over things online long after everyone else has (unless they're in such obscure corners that nobody realizes they're there) I wouldn't be surprised if most readers here are already aware of this long-running webcomic, but for those who aren't, here's a short, spoiler-avoidant review in case you're inclined to check it out ( Read more... )

Via Powell's Review-a-day, I see that the WaPo is doing its best to uphold the status quo in re literature as well as everything else:
Despite his liking for fairy tale and fantasy, Salman Rushdie is usually, and rightly, perceived as a Serious Nobel Prize-Worthy Writer. So it may come as a surprise that he has produced a book that is the ( Read more... )

When I can't read, can't watch vids, can't write because I'm too tired/frustrated, drawing can be a constructive avenue. But I haven't been drawing for ages, due to chest/back/shoulder pain from the accident combined with exhaustion that leaves me too burnt out to even doodle, so I decided the other day to try some challenging-yet-fun exercises, ( Read more... )

OTOH, even if you find it for a dollar, don't - repeat, DO NOT - buy Enemy Glory by Karen Michalson.

At least, not if unexplained kulturkludgeing drives you crazy - the sort of thing where you have a sort of generic late-Medieval/Early Renaissance Europe cognate, where the protagonist is someone named Llewellyn with a sister named Trenna and a ( Read more... )

Hi-res version of the "Bluebeard's Bride" illumination here [10.7MB PDF];

...also, the matching, slightly-tweaked revision of the original reduced-resolution pdf here, [2.5MB PDF]

Download away.

Okay, this happened on another list and I learned about it via an f-locked post, so there won't be any names or links, and anyway there have been enough other similar (imo) situations that I figure asking it in a general way is prolly best anyway, but I thought I'd bring it up here because there are so (comparatively) many of those chimerical ( Read more... )

Dragonspell by Donita Paul, published by WaterBrook PressSaw the set in Barnes & Nobles the other day but was on my way out & didn't have time to skim them. This is the Random House offshoot that published that "coming Apocalypse/War with Islam" book that I posted about a few weeks ago, btw. Just curious if anyone's yet had a chance to investigate ( Read more... )