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I had a chance to chat with historical swordfighting expert Dr. Guy Windsor on THE SWORD GUY podcast about A DREAM OF SWORDS, swordfighting choreography, comics, and other stuff. If you're looking for something to listen to (or read, there's a transcript, too), here you go!
Hey, friends! Opera fella Alek Shrader is launching his kickstarter for the HOUSE OF BARTOLO (a classic horror movie aesthetic production of Rossini's BARBER OF SEVILLE) set that I got to design and do the art for; it's a 2 foot/60 cm-wide model of Bartolo's gothic villa, at roughly the 28mm (1/56) scale common to gaming.
You can follow the kickstarter campaign (no obligation) so that you'll be notified when it launches in mid-June.
The set comes with figures of the entire cast (each leaning into a classic horror movie type (Abrogio is a Frankenstein, the notary is an invisible man, Berta is a creepy nurse, Almaviva is a dracula but his disguises are a headless horseman, an opera phantom, that kind of thing, Figaro is a wolfman, etc).
It was a real joy to help make and I'll talk about it more at length in the coming weeks, but I'm told that Kickstarter campaigns tend to have better legs if folks are following them ahead of time, so I wanted to help Alek out by spreading the word. If you know anyone who might be keen on this sort of thing, I hope you'll steer them towards it!
Hey, friends! I haven’t been on tumblr for a while (first I got locked out and couldn’t get a password reset, then the shift away from allowing adult content soured me - I don’t produce it myself, but I have friends who do, and tumblr was one of the few places that marginalized creators could share healthy, adult-oriented content, so I stopped trying to access my account/feed). BUT my Sherlock Holmes Collection kickstarter is wrapping up (ten days left) and I wanted to share it with those of you who follow me on this platform but not the other ones. It’s a bunch of wooden Sherlock Holmes characters, all researched from the canon. I hope you’ll check it out, I spent a lot of time and energy and love on them and I hope you’ll like ‘em.
-Chris
