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Saturday, September 12, 2026

The Bears are Back!

After a long absence, Bovodar and the Bears returns to Arktoons!

Arktoons is presently the only place where you can read this comic, written by Jack Mikkelson and drawn by me in ink and gouache! But we are working toward making a real book of it! That'll be really great especially since the page layouts are really dynamic, and they are are of necessity lost in the Arktoons format.

We waiting to hear back on one possible avenue of publication; if that doesn't work out, we'll try another, the main thing is that Volume 1 has been completed! Keep watching and reading!

Paper Doll Veronika update - Climax of Island

Paper Doll Veronika has updated; Chapter 12 of Part IV, "Rise and Fall", is complete!

The update starts here.

The chapter begins here.

The part begins here.

The story begins here.

This--well this whole chapter--is the climax of Part IV! As you may be able to tell, I have been planning this since 2020. I am glad it goes up on the Feast of the Name of Mary.

It updates on Fridays/Saturdays on my site, Sundays on Arkhaven, Mondays on Substack, and Saturdays on Deviantart. (Substack and Deviantart are at much earlier points in the comic). I recommend using bookmarking or the "Save your place" gadget on my site, even once you catch up, because the site starts at the beginning and updates are several pages.

Veronika Bosch, who's never left her father's estate, has to go on a journey when envious animals kick her out. Half collage, half puppetry, a fairy tale adventure made with hand-drawn paper dolls.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Two small but key revisions

Veronika was just too pale in my first rendition of this piece, "Neither do I judge my own self", extra art for Chapter 10 of Part IV of Paper Doll Veronika, so I went back and added a little more color to her skin. While I was at it, I thought I'd make revision to another piece that had been bothering me:

"Adrift", art for Chapter 19 of Part III, is in my opinion one of the best paintings I have ever done, but Veronika was colored very flatly as opposed to the water and sky. So I gave her shading, and now it holds together much better.

For the past couple years I've been trying especially hard to shed perfectionism with my drawings, not get caught in endless corrections. But when there's a glaring deficiency where one knows exactly what to do about it, coming back and revising can be very rewarding.

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Neither do I judge my own self

Bonus art for "Under the false floor", Chapter 10 of Part IV of Paper Doll Veronika, which is now being posted on Arkhaven!

The latest episode is here.

The series is here.

This is my second attempt at Macoto Takahashi's style, and while I did better on the eyes, it doesn't have near his symmetry and softness, and with the overall color combination, the result looks fairly strange. She's very pale, almost vampire-like, but that fits with how she was just at death's door and hearkens forward to things to come... Well, it's interesting.

Companion piece to "Wind through the leaves judgeth you", my first attempt at Takahashi's style. "Island" having so many companion pieces to works from other parts reflects how it is very much about Art, y'see.

You can also read Paper Doll Veronika on my own website. (I recommend my site for PC and Arkhaven for mobile.)

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