The Penguin

 Just giving y'all a heads-up - The Die Kätze Collection  is now available! That's right folks, all three issues of the landmark trilogy are here conglomerated, as well as sketches, color covers, and a bonus promo comic. Supplies are extremely  limited, so don't hesitate to visit our Storenvy page and order your copy now! Shipping is FREE in the United States!

  Well, it's happened again. I drew these sketches during a Skype meeting with the...CEO? Some corporate guy...at the auto-parts shop where I work. What remained of the work force was gathered in the little cafeteria, watching the screen in dismay as our livelihoods were put on the chopping block .  Basically Mr. Corporate was there to inform us that we had lost our biggest contract, and now we had 45-60 days to finish out our smaller contracts before the shop closed. This wasn't like an asteroid strike - we didn't get blown up out of nowhere, in the middle of everything going great. We all knew this day would come eventually. The shop was teetering even before the Pandemic fucked up distribution and logistics. The shop is dirty and unkempt, with a near-constant pall of greasy haze; nearly all the machines have something wrong with them, and little money or will to fix them. We're now operating with maybe a fifth of our full-capacity workforce. Quality was a constant pr...

 My friends think I'm crazy for liking my home state. Michigan is not, how you say, "glamorous" - in the middle of the rust belt; gray, undifferentiated towns; swampy, mosquito-infested summers and cold, sloppy winters; even the big tourist pull, the Great Lakes, are pretty unappetizing once you get into them (seriously, they really  are just very large, fish-smelling lakes). Michigan seems to have just a little bit of everything all the other states have to offer, and doesn't do it half as well. You want sparkling snowscapes? Try Minnesota. Acres of picturesque farmland? Ohio's got that in spades. Gorgeous coastline? Try any other coast. Incredible rock formations? Arizona. In terms of sheer natural aesthetics, you might try the Porcupine Mountains, but that's about the one spot you can find it - if you don't mind driving for hours, and either wading through 5-foot snowdrifts or enduring barrages of biting insects. I'm not sure why I'm so attached...