Twig (Volume 1 ) by Skottie Young, Kyle Strahm, Jean-Francois Beaulieu (colours) and Nate Piekos My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can say with absolute honesty that when you look at Twig, what you see both is and is not what you get when you read it – it is a book that both…
Category: Creativity
Book Review – Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Had never heard of this book or the author before it was given to me as a gift – my wonderful wife thought this little paean to the english language and vocabulary would be something I would enjoy. Now…
Comic Review: Alice In Leatherland (5 issue mini, Black Mask Studios)
Alice in Leatherland by Iolanda Zanfardino (Writer), Elisa Romboli (Illustrator) My Rating: 2.6 of 5 stars A short, fun, light-hearted and mostly enjoyable story told in an intimate fashion. For fans/seekers of LGBTQIA+ stories, this is a gender-shifted romantic comedy comic that tells a somewhat familiar tale with a more modern bent. THE STORY:Our protagonist, Alice,…
Book Review: The Jasmine Throne (2021, Orbit Books)
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri My rating: 3 of 5 stars Chanced upon this in, of all places, a scifi bookstore in Sweden and was highly excited at the idea of a fantasty writer of Indian origin who has crafted a fictional world that draws from the world of South Asia – a place…
My “art” and me… and other people…
Artist. It’s a term that I’ve always, ALWAYS, hesitated to use to describe myself or what I do or even really as a hobby. I’m a doodler. Well usually I suppose I sketch if anything… and by that I mean just randomly start drawing something with a pencil and then once my mind and fingers…
Giving Thanks: From me to you.
It’s been a wild few years since I decided to start writing as more than just a hobby and gave it a chance to be something resembling a career. It’s not been everything I thought: in some ways better, in some ways worse. There have been so many things along the way of all shapes…
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