Don MacDonald

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Check out Machiavelli on @comiXology ... it just went available today!

I killed Dropbox! The massive popular demand for Machiavelli comics has ground Dropbox to a halt! The voices of the people demanding comics about Renaissance political thought has the cloud oligarchs shaking in their boots! But we will not be denied.

Machiavelli ebook uploaded!

Soon.

HM: For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot. One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone. IC: So you feel like you have more license if we don’t have the facts? HM: Yes, but it is not favored. The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is. [laughs] I am not a historian. I don’t see what I do as being a rival to biography. It’s complementary. It’s fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making it up. But I try to make it up based on what is on the record. So even my wildest speculations will have a root somewhere. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119704/hilary-mantel-interview-margaret-thatcher-wrecked-country

If I am inking something, does that count as Inktober? I mean, it is inking, right?

My Red Zebra cichlid. His name is Herobrine

Schedule

Paper making in Saitama #Japan (at 埼玉伝統工芸会館)

This is an aisle FULL of comics supplies in Sekaido Art Supply in Shinjuku. You can't understand the majesty until you realize that the other side of the aisle is also manga supplies. (at 世界堂新宿本店)

ミスタードナツ Mister Donut

Doctor Stephen Maturin, from the Aubrey-Maturin Patrick O'Brian books. He has misplaced his wig (no doubt while collecting specimens) but is wearing his Navy surgeon's coat, at least.

Watercolor sketch warm up ... Getting ready to paint Machiavelli cover. This is Edward II and Gaveston.