HeyJaredPeter Taylor and Pottyville Books
Comics, creativity, and the life that runs alongside making them.
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September…Is an incredibly busy month in our family. Let’s see: brother’s birthday and eldest grandson’s birthday (both yesterday), sisters birthday (today), then third eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter by month end (does anyone need a kidney btw)? Wonderful things; cards, presents (cash for the older ones - trips round toy shops for the younger), dates to remember, celebrations to attend. One of the best times to be a grandparent (‘Gaga’ - in the parlance of our family). Another of the m
Sisyphus peered into the mist (opens the original)
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In three days, the Kickstarter for Pioneers: Blood & Stars Episode #4 comes to an end. More acutely, in about two hours I shall be one tooth shorter (fewer; lesser?) as I’m typing this just prior to a long scheduled visit to the dentist to finally extract a tooth that’s been giving me trouble and on the edge of collapse for years!I’m not sure which I’m more nervous about!I love the thrill of a campaign; it’s like the connection actors and singers talk about getting from live performance. As a wr
Little Lives & Butter Knives (opens the original)
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Where have you been Mr Taylor?Firstly - a short prayer to the Nosoi and Asclepius (Greek gods of both gastric bugs and getting over gastric bugs), for giving me the painful beginnings of this post and then finally allowed me to start eating again after pretty much a full week on nowt but water and toast!Butter Knives.If there’s anything the English love as much as tea (queuing, apologising when we bump into inanimate objects and sulking after a World Cup exit) it’s probably .. toast. Call it the
The first week! (opens the original)
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One of the strange/wonderful things about comic crowdfunding is - you spend months working on something that exists mostly in your own head, then one morning, you click a button and a bunch of people decide that ‘yes’… that wasn’t a daft idea and they’d quite like to come along for the ride too.That’s a wonderful feeling.So before anything else, to everyone who has already backed Pioneers: Blood & Stars #4, or shared the campaign, or liked a post, left a comment or cheered us on from the sidelin
Doors Open! (opens the original)
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My finger hovered over the ‘I’m ready to launch’ button - a strange and familiar moment that collapses everything into the now!Years of storytelling, months of work and planning, drawing, writing, proofing, spell-checking, tweaking rewards and wondering what obvious thing I’ve forgotten.Then ‘click’ … and it’s no longer just yours.Pioneers: Blood & Stars – Episode#4 belongs to everyone who chooses to step aboard.The penultimate chapter of a story that’s been with me for years. And though so much
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