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Hey There!
Happy Thursday! I hope you’re having a great week! As always, feel free to check out my video and/or keep on reading for all the latest. The last week or so has been pretty hectic around here, so no video this week. But I’ll be back on your screens next week!
I’ll start off with a quick reminder that we’re getting closer to the MAY 28 launch date of No Spell Lasts Forever #3! The pre-launch page is live on Kickstarter. Now is a great time to follow the campaign because the more followers it has when it launches, the more the Kickstarter algorithm prioritizes it. So if you’d like to help me do everything possible to set the campaign up for success, following now is an awesome way to do that!
As far as projects I’ve been working on, it’s mostly been getting stuff ready for the Kickstarter. But I managed to write the first five pages of the yet-to-be-named horror project I’ve been talking about here a little bit. I’ve had the story swimming in my head and it felt really good to start to get it written down. I’m so excited for this project! In some ways it’s quite different from anything I’ve written in the past. It’s set in Hell, whereas all of my previous stories have been set in the real world. And tonally it’s a little different, too. But in other ways, it’s very much up the same alley as my previous projects. Writing is strange that way! No matter how different your stories are on the surface, it’s still you writing them, so I think there will always be some similarity, some through line.
There’s a James Baldwin quote about this that I really love. He says, “Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.”
On a similar note, I was listening to an interview with musician Rufus Wainright recently where he was talking about how some of the great classical composers wrote their most acclaimed pieces at the end of their careers, not early on. So I think as creators, maybe that’s what we do. We tell our story in different ways over time, refining and homing in on what we’re really trying to say as we go.
Ok, as far as comics I’m reading. I went to the Small Press and Alterative Comics Expo a few weeks ago and connected with some amazing creators there. So I want to highlight the work of some of the writers and artists I met.
One of the comics I really enjoyed was All Our Monsters by Chandu Tennety. It’s a fantasy about a refugee teenager who discovers an extraordinary power. One of the things I really love about Chandu’s writing is how he gives the character moments room to breathe and reverberate. It’s not always easy to do that in comics since your page space is so constrained, but Chandu does it really well. Check it out!
Well, that’s it from me for now. As always, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads @sarahccomics. Have a great day!
Best,
Sarah