So my life has utterly changed. Ive lost the love of my life. Had a heart attack and 3 strokes in a matter of 18 months.
I can’t work. Can’t drive. I wobble when I walk. I can’t really read. My eyesight is screwed up. I am dizzy all the time and have wiked vertigo. I have problems remembering words.
I am still alive.
I am trying to draw. I haven’t been able to for a lmost 2 years since my Dad died.
I am trying. That’s all I can do.
Forgive any typos, even though I can type, I can’t read what I’ve typed.
I’ve had a third stroke, which has rendered me unable to read for now and left me some vision issues. We hope my new meds will help me from a fourth one.
Please forgive my silence, as I try and piece together my shattered life, after the loss of my wife. I’m broken and lost.I’ll be back as soon as I can.
So, the last 9 months have sucked to say the least. My father got sick and eventually passed. I had a number of illnesses and eventually a heart attack. My beloved wife Chrissie just passed away 3 weeks ago.
I haven’t been able to muster any kind of artistic mojo through all this. I have pencilled a couple pages and a few sketches, but nothing lasting.
I went to DJ Coffman’s Drawn Together drink and draw last night, in the hopes of kick starting my artistic drive. It was fun, I drew, we talked and we commiserated. I’m going to try and draw more and get back to creating. It’s NOT easy, especially after losing Chrissie, but I’m gonna try.
It is with the heaviest of hearts i have to say goodbye to the most beautiful, lovely soul mate one could have. My dearest wife, Chrissie Linck passed away today.
Our hero and family rock, after losing her life, gave the gift of life by donating her organs to several people in desperate need.
My heart is shattered, my life feels over. I will never stop loving and missing the love of my life.
Sorry, guys. Another setback in a very bad last few months. I had a heart attack on Monday morning.Luckily, my wife Chrissie took me straight to the hospital to get care.
It turns out, my Widowmaker Artery was 98% clogged. My doctor Dr Azuz did a heart catheter, cleared out all the gunk and put in 2 stents. My heart otherwise seems to be in pretty good shape, but thank God I got care so fast. Monday could’ve turned out so much worse.
I have a lot of healing, a change of lifestyle and work to do to get healthy.
When speaking to longtime collaborator and friends, Brian Babyok and Glenn Csonka about my plight and the both mentioned to above comic where I gave Phineus a heart attack. I should bounce back a little better than he did.
First up in February is Helltown Comicon at Helltown Brewery! This should be a fun time!
And I’ve applied to guest at PIE, which used to be PIX. I did PIX in the mid-aughts, until my need to work 2 jobs kept me fairly hermitted in the late teens.
This year, it’s back! I really hope i get in. It’s a great show!
Having a lot of issues with focus and motivation. Scared to share my work on Social Media, as all they seem to do is steal it and sell it. I have this site, but very few come here to read.
I need to regroup, refocus and move forward. Just having a little trouble doing so, right now.
Here is my version of a Warhammer 40K Admech (with Imperial Agents). My Inquisitor is a Time Lord of the Ordo Chronos, allied with Admech, searching for lost Time Travel Tech.
Much of this army also fill slots in my wishlist 2nd Edition Imperial Agents army that I’ve wanted since 2nd ed.
I have lots of kitbashed robots, Kitbashed Onager, a Disintegrator made from an old toy I got somewhere, and basically all the pieces are kitbashes of some sort.
I put together Electro Priests from Start Grave and Frost Grave minis, with Admech bits. I kitbashed them as I really dislike the GW minis. These are fun and a bit creepy. I have long wanted these guys since 2nd ed, and I finally have some!
I still have battle line units to paint up of Hrud Rangers and Admech Vanguard (tech priest squads in 2nd Ed.).
Warhammering is scratching an ich until I can get back to drawing.
I’ll be doing and posting these daily for all of October 2024. Check back, frequently. I’ll be stringing them together as a Cole Beam story, told in Sketch cards. It’s a cool experiment.
This month into April, I’ll be finishing up the year long commission story I’ve been working on, as well completing “Maynard and Grimm” and “Boy Wizards”. I just finished up “Barcrawl of the Damned”, recently, as well. All these projects dragged on far too long, due to my car accident and also dealing with my depression and anxiety. I apologize for that.
Once these loose ends are all tied up, I’ll be starting on 2 new projects, both collaborations with friends of mine.
The regular ongoing story will be “Queen of the Cold Night”, written by Brian Babyok and art by me. This will post MWF on the main site, starting in May.
The bonus story will be “The Midnight Isle/ isla de medianoche” a collaboration with Shawn Atkinsand is a crossover of Phineus and his Explorers of the Unknown. He’s written a treatment, I’ll be drawing the story and Shawn will color and dialog. Updates will post jointly on both of our Patreons. This should also start in May.
So, that’s our plan. I want back to multiple pages a week, and regularity in making.
I was sent his pic of some old art someone of Facebook sent to me with questions of where they were used.
The black and white one was the line art for the first edition of The Complete Phineus Volume 1. The color one in the middle was going to be the cover for Issue #6, if I remember correctly ( I ended up using a Photo of myself from photo class as Rotwang).
The third one, I completely forgot about. I believe I did some color pics for when John Burris and I ran Backwaters RPG at gaming conventions. It was a blast from the past!
I still get freaked out by art I’d forgotten I’d drawn, even 30 years ago!
After finishing up the bonus Phineus story, “The Lake Erie Horror “, I got the cover done for the next Trade Paperback. The Complete Phineus Volume 2 second edition will be up for sale at Amazon, soon. I have some design work to do before I send it off.
Once this goes up, I still have stories and new covers to do for Trades Complete Phineus 3, 4 & 5, and Maynard and Grimm.
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