Welcome to Tales from the Swamp Ghost by me, Darcy Van Poelgeest.
Hello friends!
This has been a huge year of change for me both professionally and personally (in all those COVID ways), and 2021 will be brining even more changes. Most of them very exciting so I hope you subscribe and stick around!
Why a newsletter?
I’m rethinking how I want to spend time and interact with people online, and without going too far down the rabbit hole that means deleting my Facebook account after many, many years and starting this newsletter. If I think about it too much I get a little sad because I worry about loosing touch with people I care about. But I know that any meaningful connections I have will carry on in other ways.
I’m also on Twitter and Instagram and if I see you follow me - I’ll follow you back!
And now I have this newsletter, Tales from the Swamp Ghost!
I’ll use this space to share all aspects of my life in more detail than I ever would on Facebook and because I’ll only be publishing once a month (if all goes well), it’ll be more thoughtful, and ideally more interesting. I’ll try to showcase not just my work but the work of some other really interesting people I meet along the way.
It will certainly include updates on what I’m working on, both comics and film related. I’ll be including photos, art, news, interviews, general interests (what I’m watching and reading), and occasionally some exclusive content or giveaways.
The most newsworthy things I could mention at this time is that our comics series, Little Bird has just been released in its third and fourth language; German from Cross Cult Comics, and Italian from Panini Publishing.
And Image Comics released a gorgeous new soft cover edition about four weeks ago.
Prior to that we were honoured with the 2020 Eisner Award for “Best Limited Series”, as well as a Harvey Awards Nomination for Best Book. And lastly I’ve been nominated for a Shuster Award for “Best Writer”.
I’m really damn excited for this and hope you’ll subscribe and join me in this new venture. I know this inaugural newsletter isn’t all that exciting but I promise it will continue to grow and evolve in interesting ways as I learn the ins and outs of this new platform.
Hope this finds you well!
xoxo, DVP
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