Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢

Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

This one’s specific to comics, but: when your characters are having a conversation you can have them doing something else at the same time. Keep the visuals moving. It can be plot advancement, character stuff, doesn’t matter. Just have them doing SOMETHING.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

New Thunder Punch Daily, exploring the characters in The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue, starting with #DoctorBaer himself. And discovering that a big influence on the character began with my childhood fascination with vampires.

Listen here: jdrozd.com/tpd-343-char...

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

I talk a bit about the influences, and a big one is supernatural horror where the heroes are scholars or priests facing ancient, implacable monsters.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

New Thunder Punch Daily microcast in which I give the premise and origin of #DoctorBaer: jdrozd.com/tpd342/

#KidLit #Spooky #Comics

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

Same. It was a screener VHS tape sent to my parents' video rental store. They even sent a cardboard standee that I had in my bedroom for years. My comic geek friends HATED it.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

Ha ha I hid that for so long. I got a TON of shame in my youth for loving that film. It's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure meets the Muppet Movie!

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

Quote skeet with one of your favourite films that isn't a huge hit, let's get to know each other a bit more.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

#DoctorBaer has cursed pennies & cute pigs.

Sept 2024 from @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social: doctorbaer.com
#KidLit

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

She is 100% Grade-A thug. She'd be a Dreadnok in the Sunbow cartoons.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Shenandoah's morning walk.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

Finished!

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

Making #DoctorBaer shoes for #ALAAnnual. Representing each of the three remote and dangerous locations between both of them.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Kirkus says The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue is "rendered in luscious detail." 💛

Coming this fall from @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social : www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

#DoctorBaer #kidlit #spooky #comics

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

On the blog: how I'm using digital design, 3d printing, and clay to create "ancient" objects: jdrozd.com/fire-skeleto...

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 00:18 UTC

Same. It speeds things up, and it opens up new ways to look at your shots. The support for OBJ files in CSP is a game changer. I have no regrets in learning Blender.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

A "gentle kind of masculinity" is what I hold in my heart every time I walk into a classroom. And yeah, I learned that from He-Man. 💛

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 00:12 UTC

#ala2024! I'm giving away a bunch of #DoctorBaer ceramic talismans at the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social booth (2534D) while I sign ARCs of The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. Supplies are limited!

#kidlit #graphicnovels #spooky #alaannual #americanlibraryassociation

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

"You don't believe in my miracle."

More development for my next #DoctorBaer story, and how I'm using blender models for my work, on the blog: jdrozd.com/walking-up-t...

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

Loved it. Your reflections on the weird imagery were great, and I fully agree about Doctor Mendez. Had a sort of amplified Van Helsing thing about him.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

My friend Rob Stenzinger and I had a discussion on how I'm using Blender models in my next #DoctorBaer story and how his new video game is nearly ready for release if you were a Lean Into Art listener, it's kind of like a podcast reunion: jdrozd.com/an-unofficia...

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Just look for me at the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social booth (2534D), or you can see my schedule here: annual2024.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?...

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

Librarian friends! I'm going to be at ALA 2024 with advance reader copies of The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. I'm also bringing my first public batch of Stone Protection talismans, AND I'll draw you a custom cursed object: jdrozd.com/ill-be-at-al...

#ALA2024

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

That's what I said--!

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

Ha! I can see that. Looks like something that would be a key to one of the booby traps.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Fire Skeleton amulets are in the kiln for a Sunday glaze firing. Can't wait to see how these turn out!

#DoctorBaer #Ceramics #Spooky

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Fire Skeletons are creatures from my middle grade graphic novel coming Sept 2024: doctorbaer.com

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

Thunder Punch Daily essays are back, & this time I answer a listener question: Do you ever feel the tension between protecting time to work on your book against time that friends and family want you to spend with them?

Yes, AND: jdrozd.com/tpd-340-i-ca...

#DoctorBaer #Podcasts #Art

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

My site is back up, so y'all who found out about Doctor Baer yesterday can read sample pages, learn about the characters, and maybe even preorder the book! doctorbaer.com

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

That's terrific. Let's hear it for the gentle healers!

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 04:06 UTC

Thank you! I worked very hard on it. I hope people enjoy the comic!

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 04:05 UTC

That's an excellent name for a pediatrician. 🧸

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢 @jerzy.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

Thanks for that! Got a support ticket out to Bluehost. Hope to have it back up soon!

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