The Dreadful Future
Channing Hey, gang! As you know, scripts go through a lot of changes between their initial draft stage and the final product you see on the page. This Sunday, I thought it’d be illuminating to look at the very first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: I started this wallpaper illustration at the beginning of the month, and now it’s a nostalgic image of the days when people could gather in groups. Ha ha, the world’s gone mad and we’re all going to die. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: One last set of sketches I did for Kickstarter backers. I have to apologize to the uppermost-tier backers, whose packages I’m putting together now. On the plus side, I got a request to draw Imogene, the 1950s-fixated mad genius[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Indoors? Reading? Need piles of comics? For the length of all shelter-in-place advisories, all Narbonic and Skin Horse books you order from the Couscous Store will arrive signed and sketched by me. Stay safe, stay sane, read fun stuff.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: This is one of the more unusual fan art submissions we’ve gotten. One of the prose stories Jeff wrote as a bonus for Kickstarter backers is “You Are Jonah Yu,” a choose-your-own-adventure story starring Jonah and Nera. The story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: My kid told me I should only draw cats, so I made this Florida Keys-themed wallpaper for him. As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any amount to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Oh my gosh, look at this! Trivena writes, “Looking for something to do during isolation, I raided my craft stash and found some snakeskin print left over from another project. As a big fan of hugs, which are difficult[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Claire writes, “I redraw bits of the strip almost every evening; it started as a way to get nice avatar images, but has ended up being a longer term project.” That is…amazing, and thank you very much for this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Continuing the theme of drawing things my kid tells me to draw, here’s a wallpaper design with a whole lot of dandelions. I’m also trying to work more with colors I don’t usually use. So: yellow! I like to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Thank you so much to Ari for these very cute drawings of Unity, Tip, Tigerlily and Bubbles! I appreciate all the appropriate accessories. Channing: Now, more than ever, I want little action figure versions of these characters with little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: We’re getting so much fan art this month! Thank you! It’s Mermay, the month for drawing mermaids, and Ed Gedeon has gifted us this not-at-all-terrifying Unity made from a melange of sea creatures. Thanks, Ed! Channing: Poor Ariel deserved[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Please enjoy my fourth seasonal puppy wallpaper design. As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any amount to our Patreon, we’ll give you a link to this wallpaper,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Today the National Cartoonists Society is asking cartoonists to put symbols representing essential workers into their comic strips, as a thank-you to the people who have been working through the actual apocalypse to keep us alive. The symbols are:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: I give Nick a hard time, but he’s transparently my favorite character. Channing: Many apologies to our increasingly-dismayed Lee. Some of my preliminary pre-strip brainstorming sessions got a little odd at times. Again, as noted, this was pre-strip speculation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Thank you so much to Erin Ptah for drawing Skin Horse characters at a Pride march, along with Hank and Ada from LR Hale’s The Night Belongs to Us. Erin previously drew this great Oz-themed illustration, which I can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaenon: Ari Papke colored our illustration for the Great Thank You Search and now it looks lovely. Thank you so much! Channing: This is a beautiful treatment! Thank you, Ari!
Shaenon: For this month’s wallpaper I felt like doing something with Jonah and/or Nera, which developed into this National Parks-style poster. As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…