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Neve Maslakovic<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/selfpromo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfpromo</span></a> A couple of May promotions!</p><p>This one is for scifi and fantasy reads:</p><p><a href="https://books.bookfunnel.com/marvelousmaybooksale/lqtyjv16y9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.bookfunnel.com/marvelous</span><span class="invisible">maybooksale/lqtyjv16y9</span></a></p><p>And this one is for time travel books:</p><p><a href="https://books.bookfunnel.com/time_travel_2025/6j5n664143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.bookfunnel.com/time_trav</span><span class="invisible">el_2025/6j5n664143</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/timetravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timetravel</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>Self-promo time! What links, writing, art, or media do you want to share with the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> crowd? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> </p></blockquote><p>No comics, sorry, but I posted this short tootfic. Today, I mentioned a <em>day angel</em> in one of my replies, so you might find this story fun. In current colloquial-speak, it provides the feels aplenty. I am rather proud of it.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/112497915608418589" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11249791</span><span class="invisible">5608418589</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A4. If you were to draw a comic with infinite budget, any artist or tools you'd like, NO GENERATIVE AI (like, seriously, can we not), and a wide audience, what would you do? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> </p></blockquote><p>This is an iffy thing for me. I'd much rather know a comics artist who became interested in one of my works. Since some of my characters are evolved humans (day angels and night angels), or aliens (sentient plants), or racy (living in a world so hot that clothing is dangerous), there would be plenty of opportunity for story to be enhanced by a comics rendition. Seriously, if I had infinite time (and at my age I certainly don't—I feel like a ticking time bomb), I have seen a number of comics drawing tools. I'd try that. I don't think I have the required artistic sense, though I am really good at photography. I'd been better off doing something like Foxes in Love or XCD, short panel, terse, philosophical, profound, and weird. Enough of that… Blue sky.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
Elektra<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> <br>I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com</p><p>See me talk about SF/F, writing, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on Facebook and Youtube.</p><p>My next convention will be Balticon on Memorial Day weekend, where Permutations, an anthology based on Jack Chalker's Well World will launch.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/amediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amediting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/alternatehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alternatehistory</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ConTinual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConTinual</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/supernatural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supernatural</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/permutations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permutations</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/wellworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wellworld</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>Self-promo time! What links, writing, art, or media do you want to share with the <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> crowd? <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>I'd love to write an EC Comics-style series, of one-shot horror. It feels like EC Comics were formative for the horror genre the way the Twilight Zone is. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A3. Despite being a huge industry, comic artists don't have a union in the United States. There are talks in Japan of forming one for manga artists so they receive fair compensation for the works they provide and health insurance for strain-related injuries. How would you form a union for your creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?<br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> </p></blockquote><p>I stand on the shoulders of giants. I am a member of SFWA. Being a shy person, I'm glad I have that support.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>If you were to draw a comic with infinite budget, any artist or tools you'd like, NO GENERATIVE AI (like, seriously, can we not), and a wide audience, what would you do? <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>A2. What characters come to mind when you hear about comics? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p></blockquote><p>This one of the cases it would help were I home (I am a passenger in a car), because there are some series that I followed that were truly weird and phantastic, very imaginative. I think I learned a lot about telling a short story from reading Stan Saki's Usagi Yojimbo. A huge compendium of work, always unique and interesting, rarely repeating, with great character arcs.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>First I think would be choosing trusted individuals who know how to handle the paperwork and aren't racist, sexist, and transphobic. Then it's opening up such a union and figuring out how to make it effective so that industries can't ignore us and choose the newbies or scabs. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfwrtr</span></a></span> Manga is also a form of cartooning! It counts! <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p>A1. Cartooning refers to making comics, art with text that conveys a story. Do you like reading comics? Or do you like writing and drawing them? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> <br>I read comic with stories more akin to manga. Usagi Yojimbo, Omaha the Cat Dancer are old favorites. I don't get superhero comics, all the movies are fun. I can't draw worth a damn, so I'm not a comics artist.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span> Hey power to that. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is formative to someone thinking about their impact and privilege during a short, precious life. I keep rewatching the scene where he has fifteen people falling but can only carry three. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>Despite being a huge industry, comic artists don't have a union in the United States. There are talks in Japan of forming one for manga artists so they receive fair compensation for the works they provide and health insurance for strain-related injuries. How would you form a union for your creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?<br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
Neve Maslakovic<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> Lots of Marvel movies get watched in our house, so those are the characters I know</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span> Fair! Always happy to make recommendations based on what I read and review. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>I think Superman is the iconic one, and the one that is most misunderstood. His creators were Jewish and paid homage to stories like Moses, of prosecuted children that survive and save their people. Note that Superman also came out in the 1930s, when Anti-Semitism led to 6 million Jewish people dying in Europe. So every parody that has an "evil" Superman like Homelander or Omni-Man seem to miss that particular point. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
Neve Maslakovic<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Priyajsridhar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Priyajsridhar</span></a></span> It's not something I've gotten into, though I respect (and am in awe) of the artistry and storytelling that goes into them</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p>2. Some comic characters and stories have become a part of the national or international dialogue. Superman once started as a roof-jumping activist that spoke out against corruption and endangerment of pedestrians, while Charlie Brown went from a well-meaning prankster to a melancholic everyman. What characters come to mind when you hear about comics? <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
Priya Sridhar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span> How about reading them? <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a></p>
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