Once again, I’ve left this site lie fallow for more than a year, even though I’ve had stuff to talk about.

Once the Sîan Kickstarter was fulfilled I really struggled to get going on the next comic project. I was dealing with recovering from an injury that affected my drawing hand and spending a lot of time puttering around the house and yard fixing and building and finishing older build projects. As the year wound down I was kind of stuck, both unable to decide which of 4 possible projects to work on and was really struggling to figure out how to break out of it and get going.

So, hoping it would help scrape the barnacles off and get the juices flowing to do something with an outside deadline, I sent out a bunch of cold emails with art samples to publishers looking for work.

And, much to my surprise someone called my bluff!

In March I drew my first story for the new EC Comics revival, a 10 pager coming out in Cruel Universe #11 (any week now).

Here is a sample page of the art:

And, I turned in my second story yesterday. This one is an 8 pager for an upcoming issue of Cruel Kingdom, though I don’t know the issue # yet. I’ll post some art from that when the issue is closer to coming out.

I just added the Regular edition of Sîan: Thief Of Khor-Shavarah #1 to the web store as well as the standard DIGITAL PDF EDITION. SO if you missed out on the Kickstarter, they are now available!

The Kickstarter campaign for Sîan: Thief of Khor-Shavarah #1 went live today.

Sîan #1 is a deluxe 48-page, saddle-stitched comic book written and drawn by Craig A. Taillefer. It will be printed on satin paper which shows off the crisp Black & white interior art and comes wrapped in glossy full-colour 100 point card stock covers.

A double comic, Sîan #1 features 2 stories of Sîan’s adventures: a 28 page lead story and a 20 page co-lead story, both full-length stand-alone tales of Sword & Sorcery adventure!

Sîan: A Tale of Two Thieves

A northern outlander comes to the lower underbelly of Khor-Shavarah seeking to slake his hunger after long days on the road, as well as opportunities to ply his trade. A chance encounter in a thieves-guild tavern with Sîan, professional thief for hire, leads him to try to horn in on her latest caper. Is he after a share of her treasure or has Sîan herself caught his lustful eye? He finds more than he bargained for in joining Sîan in raiding an exotic temple guarded by a slumbering danger!

Sîan: The Eye of Jar-Jargathar

After completion of a successful second-story heist, professional thief Sîan is cheated of her payment by an unscrupulous fence. Narrowly avoiding further humiliation at the hands of the fence’s bodyguard, and frustrated and humiliated over her gender once too often, Sîan accepts a wizard’s offer of transformation in return for a risky job. A tale of double crossing, low dealing, and high adventure in a far away Sword & Sorcery era.

The campaign is only 3 weeks, ending on February 12th, so do check it out soon!

I’m aiming to launch the Kickstarter for Sîan #1 on Tuesday January 21.

In the meantime, do check out the Pre-Launch page!

It took me a ridiculously long time to get around to it, but I’ve finally put Thrilling Tales of Vistas Unknown up on the Store and made sure a few other stray items were updated.

One of these days I’ll get around to adding in limited edition items like signed copies of Dead Boy Detectives and Books of Magic and some original art.