#airsled

The two main characters of my short story Airsled, Vrazi the diver avian and Piawii the pygmy avian.You can read more about their species here. Vrazi is holding the cord of money they used to buy Piawii's indentured labor, and Piawii is holding Vrazii's tea pipe.

The tea pipe was a funny compromise that turned into worldbuilding, because Vrazi felt like the type of character to smoke a cool pipe, but avian lungs are too delicate to handle the high concentration of airborne particulates found in leaf smoke. Smoke inhalation has a lot more immediately deleterious effects to them than to humans. I split the difference by giving them a steaming hot cup of [insert addictive stimulant here] with a pipe-like handle for drinking on the go. 

At last it's here, a shop update. Yippee! Whoo! Featuring:

The very first color printing of Airsled! Available as a softcover or a pdf, colored by @korybing! It's a short story on the pre-industrial avian homeplanet about a livestock-drawn airplane, confronting an internalized colonialist mindset, and biting large wild predators in the neck!

A new sticker bundle! You can get a discount on it if you also buy the Airsled softcover, use code COLORVISION.

A restock of Growth Chart, the collection of short stories about Talita growing up in human foster care.

Restocks on the first 4 volumes of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine.

Sales on a lot of older Almost Real merch and other miscellaneous older store stock. I want this stuff outta my house.

There are actually still tons of the original Seasons Greasons cards lying around, if you want to take them off my hands. I ordered too many last year, it seems.... so uh.... 25% off of them with code ALIENKISSER 👍

I wanted to do another holiday sticker special this year, but ended up too busy this fall to get that together. But in other shop news, I'm doing a reprint of Airsled, ETA late January. It will be in color! Colored by @korybing! Thank you @korybing! :) Look, here's a page!

Shop update tomorrow at 12pm PST: The last ever round of hand-bound hardcover Airsled comics, new booklets, new hand-bound sketchbooks, blockprinted fabric patches, and all the usual stuff as well. Keep an eye out if you like unique, handmade, and slightly wonky (but ostensibly charming) objects. 🐓

Hey gang, I am in the final sstrreeeetch of creating Airsled, my comic about aliens launching a livestock-drawn airplane! The comic is due to debut at Small Press Expo this September, where I will be selling printed copies, including a couple of ~✨DELUXE✨~ hand-bound hardcover copies.

If you’d like to watch it come out page by page, help pay for the printing costs, or just throw these lads some dollars, check out my PATREON! If you’d prefer to wait for print and PDF, visit me at SPX2019 or check Gumroad after the con, when it’ll be available online.

Humans don't appear in the story but I'm thinking about... um... the relative heights of my Airsled comic protagonists.... pygmy and diver avians are the shortest of their sapient genus, and both weigh under 40 pounds.