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Okay we’re back, with two Indie Comics Mini-Interviews!

First up: Laurie Calcaterra and the latest Kickstarter for PATH OF THE PALE RIDER Issues 1-8!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pathofthepalerider/path-of-the-pale-rider-issues-1-8

1: What is your favorite word? Plethora. It’s fun to use and funny to say. PLETHORA. LOL

2: What is your least favorite word? Moist. Yup. 

3: What sound or noise do you love? I like listening to people have their hair brushed. The soft shushing noise is calming. 

4: What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I would love to be a stuntwoman. I had a brief look at that career, but it would have involved moving across the country so I passed. The martial arts aspect of being a stunt woman sounds fascinating.

5: Please talk about your current project in 4 or 5 sentences: My current project is Path of the Pale Rider issue 8. If you like Fallout, Walking Dead, Spaghetti Westerns, and a sprinkle of Cocaine Bear, you should check us out! In this world, we follow a cowboy, Jude St. Clair through the apocalypse where DEATH is broken. People, animals, insects and fish are all stuck together. Will Jude find the reason why Death is no longer functioning or succumb to rot and despair himself? 

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Next up: Fish Lee and the Kickstarter for Greenzone: Life In The Blocks “First Shift” TPB: 172-page full-color TPB director’s cut of issues 1-4, with deleted scenes, short stories, and new character files!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrfishcomics/greenzone-life-in-the-blocks-first-shift-tpb

1. What is your favorite word? 

Answer:  CAN.  I am a firm believer that I can do nearly anything I put my mind to.  I spent 15 years in a wheelchair, so I’ll likely never run a marathon… but I could set my mind to it and walk a 5K again.

2. What is your least favorite word? Answer:  CAN’T.  Nothing makes me madder than telling me I can’t do something.  I’ll find a way.

3. What sound or noise do you love? 

Answer: cracking open an ice cold cherry Dr. Pepper (zero sugar version, these days)

4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?  

Answer: engineer.  It’s actually what got me drawing in the first place.  Plans for my inventions led to designs for super-suits, led to drawing comics.

5. Please talk about your current writing project for 4 or 5 sentences…

Answer: When five years on the force stands between you and citizenship, four illegal genomes will take on the mutant gangs, a corrupt police force, and a world that hates them, to try and claw their way out of the Greenzone.  Anyone can be born with a mutant genome, and you immediately lose all rights and citizenship and are forced into Greenzones, where genomes must be marked with green stripes.  If you want out of the slums, you have to prove you’re not a super-villain waiting to happen by serving the greater good for five years without using your powers– resort to using them, and you’ll get sent to prison, or worse. It’s a no-win situation when humans look at you as a joke, the genomes look at you as a race traitor, and you’re not even allowed to carry a gun when the next guy you pull over may spit fireballs or shoot lightning from his toes. Greenzone: Life In The Blocks follows 4 new recruits to the police force on their first shift.  Written and illustrated by yours truly, Mr Fish Lee.

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HOLY COW DID YOU PEOPLE SEE THOSE KICKSTARTERS.

…What, you didn’t? Go click on them. That’s right, click those links!

Okay, now that you’re back, we’ll continue with our regularly-scheduled programming…

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Okay SO: back to Wicker Man Studios, as we continue the playtest of the fantasy noir ttrpg (table-top role-playing game) MY SWORD IS QUICK (see last time if you missed it! https://wickermanstudios.com/2026/01/04/my-sword-is-quick-a-two-person-rpg-playtest-part-one/ )

Last time: The spell-slinger Magenta (Barb) came home from a job to find a dead man in her home! She got out of there, magically disguised herself to look like that guy, ran into some street urchins who knew the guy, and then she gave the city guards a hard time. Now it’s time for her to talk to the only city guard she can trust…

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Hi there! Happy #INDIEpendence! #INDIEpendence is a thing happening in July to celebrate indie artistic endeavors– such as indie comics!

As such, we’re helping bring attention to a couple of Kickstarters for indie comics that are running RIGHT NOW by doing mini-interviews! (Why, yes, most of the questions ARE from the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire that James Lipton always asked at the end of Inside the Actors Studio, thank you for noticing!)

First up: Winston Gambro, creator of HAUNTED HOUSE: A LOVE STORY:

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1. What is your favorite word?

–Lush

2. What is your least favorite word?

–Pneumonia

3. What sound or noise do you love?

–Machine Whirring

4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

–Stunt Man

5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!

–A beautiful house is cursed with the gift of life– it soon falls in love with its sole occupant, its own architect. Unfortunately for the house, the architect is oblivious to the house’s sentience, and finds forbidden romance with his doctor. The house acts out in vengeance, setting off a tragic chain of events that ripple through the next century, entrapping a diverse assortment of couples, each seeking their own romance. As each pair of lovers grapples with their own romance, the house’s grief warps their journey into horrific ends.

If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, the entire horror/romance graphic novel is on Kickstarter here!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/490542929/haunted-house-a-love-story-a-comic-of-horror-and-romance

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Next up: David Doub of DUSK: LOVE BITES!

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1. What is your favorite word?

–Onomatopoeia

2. What is your least favorite word?

–Dave (David is the only true term!)

3. What sound or noise do you love?

–SHRRAKADOOM

(Now I am at work just going Shrrakadoom everywhere…)

4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

–Be a comic book artist. I have a mad dream to make a comic complete myself, from making the paper, to binding the book, to doing it all!

5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!

–Dusk: Love Bites plays off of the unrequited love the female lead has for her Vampire Lord. So her unwilling paramour shows her how dark a Vampire Lord can be when it comes to their thralls. Little did either of them know this particular thrall only joined the dark ranks of the supernatural to escape the turmoil and persecution as a young gay man in the ’80s…

If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, here’s where you can sign up to get notified when this indie graphic novel’s campaign begins on Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/demonsinthedarkness/dusk-love-bites-0

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And THESE NEXT two links are about how if you’re one of the first 100 followers of David’s Kickstarter, you’ll get a huge bundle of indie comics– a bundle which also contains the entire graphic novel of HUNGRY GHOSTS by Barb and me (Park)!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLWER8jRkNK

https://www.facebook.com/DuskComics/posts/pfbid0j67DYN75tn41nn3asoVzNxvNGzuKgV7oUNK1EGnDWqw77zye9A9zxuKyzqmgDPazl

As of the instant I am writing this, there’s room for 37 more! One of those people could be you!

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Okay, that’s it for this time– See you again soon!