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  • Barb Update: The Missives of October

    Barb Update: The Missives of October

    First, before anything: we’ve got a new book out!

    Song to the Siren is a prose novel about:

    –scares, drugs, and rock and roll

    –true love, madness, and the supernatural

    –childhood… and surviving long enough to get out of childhood…

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  • Podcast episode: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

    Podcast episode: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

    Here’s a podcast episode that Barb and I were on once to talk about the movie of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Enjoy!

    https://www.spreaker.com/user/12149820/interview-with-the-vampire-1994-castle-d
  • Half Dead

    Half Dead

    That’s the cover image, by Afua Richardson, not to be confused for being the artist of all the rest of it, Jimmy Bott…

    Half Dead was a result of us saying: “What people seem to want these days is just people fighting vampires and kicking ass… and vampires that kick ass… What if we just wrote a comic that was nothing but vampire ass-kicking, just to see what would happen and if anyone would want it?”

    Everyone wanted it… sort of…

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  • The League of Mystery Science

    The League of Mystery Science

    “The League of Mystery Science” is just a short story I wrote, a love letter to the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 that will hardly make any sense to anyone but MST3K superfans.

    Having said that, enjoy:

    The League of Mystery Science

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  • Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre

    Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre

    http://www.amazon.com/Mirages-Authors-Leigh-M-Lane/dp/1617208442

    Wanted to post about this anthology: Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre, which has in it a short story that Barb and I wrote (mostly Barb).

    The reviews are very nice, and you’ll notice that people often mention that they like our (mostly Barb’s) story, so please consider taking a look! It’s available in both paperback and digitally…

    There’s a Joe R. Lansdale story in there too, if that’s the sort of thing that interests you.

  • Gun Street Girl

    Gun Street Girl

    Gun Street Girl was– and IS– Barb’s comic about a lesbian gal, Liz, and a street magician (much less fancy than a stage magician, but he does real magic), Eddie Caution.

    It was online during the very start of the webcomic era, then it was published by a publisher called Bedazzled Ink that specialized in LGBT+ stories, but it was their first graphic novel and they didn’t really know how to market it, so we took it back, but we and artist Ryan Howe had a crowdfunding Kickstarter very recently, with the help of our (graphic novel) publisher, Lucha Comics– and it made! Here’s the link to the Kickstarter update where Barb thanked everyone: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luchacomics/gun-street-girl-action-magic-and-monsters-in-london/posts/4354765

    Barb and Ryan made many other good posts about GSG:

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luchacomics/gun-street-girl-action-magic-and-monsters-in-london/posts

    I particularly recommend:

    –Update 22: Barb Answers READER questions about Gun Street Girl!
    –Update #20: Barb answers questions about GSG PART 1
    –Update #19: Barb talks about EVEN MORE of the stories in Gun Street Girl volume 1
    –Update #18: Barb talks about more of the stories in Gun Street Girl v1
    –Update #16: December Will Be Magic Again
    –Update #15: Tourist Trap
    –Update #14: Witchfinder General
    –Update #11: Riding In Cars With Characters (by Ryan Howe)
    –Update #8: Why I Wrote Gun Street Girl
    –Update #7: Gun Street Girl Artist, Ryan Howe
    –UPDATE #1: Fun from the Past…

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  • Manga We Have Known (as in, written or re-written)

    Manga We Have Known (as in, written or re-written)

    As it says in the About Us section, Barb and I have also adapted and edited a lot of manga. Here’s some of it–

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