Duskbirds Comics Volume 1 is currently available at Seattle Paper Pushers for a limited time! I was excited when I recently received photos of the space (it looks so pleasant for browsing & reading!) – thank you so much to those who picked up Duskbirds Comics in print! I hope you enjoy reading it! And many thanks to Seattle Printers Guild for offering Duskbirds in their wonderful space alongside so many passionate zine creators!
Paper Pushers is a zine pop-up currently open in downtown Seattle. It’s part of Seattle Restored, which has a page with the address and hours on their site here. I’ll also list this info below!
Paper Pushers Print Shop
Address:
1200 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Dates open:
April 26 – September 15, 2026
Hours:
Monday: Closed Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Thursday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Sunday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
If you’d like to check out the space, visit before September 15th, 2026, as the space is a temporary pop-up. It looks like an incredible space – there are some photos on their google maps page here if you’d like to browse!
I’m told there are a few copies of Duskbirds Comics Vol. 1 left – if you’re in the downtown Seattle area, consider stopping by and browsing Duskbirds plus the plethora of beautiful zines they have on display!
More links with info related to the pop-up:
Seattle Printers Guild’s Instagram post announcing the store opening here.
Tumblr post where I found the link for Seattle Restoredhere – thanks to those in the post thread, as looking up info for the store felt a bit scattered – hope this post helps with consolidating some of the info!
2026 paintover drawing of the “Solitary Sylvari” from the “Festival of the Four Winds.”
“All these years later and I can still hear its echoes in my head.” – “Solitary Sylvari” from the Festival of the Four Winds [link to dialogue on the official wiki]
This is one of my favorite festivals in Guild Wars 2! I felt like doing some warm-up drawing yesterday with this paintover to celebrate the annual festival going live today. It isn’t quite a sketch, as I probably spent a good amount of time on the original – but I didn’t on the paintover yesterday, and I wouldn’t call it finished. It’s very rough in parts.
I remember always liking the general idea/concept for this drawing, though there were parts I was dissatisfied with, and I remember being unable to improve on at the time. It was fun seeing what I’d do differently now, compared to when I drew the original.
Enjoy the festival! I love meandering around the map and taking in the atmosphere. I can end up wandering aimlessly and not realize hours have gone by if I don’t catch myself!
The original 2018 version in the full post, to compare with the 2026 paintover above:
Small WIP panel crop fromNightmare’s Embrace I’ve been drawing recently – as well as, I soft-launched the info page for the comic last week, on July 22, 2026! I plan to retouch some of the artwork on it, as two of the profile artworks use older art (while the third is one of the paintover practices touched-up from last year), before sharing the page more widely. (That’s also when I’ll update the RSS.) In the meantime, the page in its current form is up at Landylachs.com/nightmare
In addition to the character profiles, the bottom of the page has a small gallery showing some of the various artworks I’ve drawn of the Nightmare’s Embrace characters from over the years. The art gallery is a similar layout as The Harbinger’s Path page index.
I also have some new info about this mini comic I will probably wait a bit before mentioning it elsewhere, but I’ll mention first here for myself (and you if you happen to stumble upon it). The original plan for this comic was to complete it and then post it in its entirety on the Nightmare’s Embrace website. I would have aimed to do this by about the end of this summer.
However, I learned an update a week or two ago that has changed my plans slightly. Now, I am leaning toward holding off posting this comic until at least after November – because this one I’m thinking of debuting it in print first instead, during a new event taking place this November in LA!
Similar to Manga Ichiba, this event is the first time they’re trying it out. I’ll post more about the event in another post when I have a chance to organize the info more coherently, as it’s still pretty new to me.
I also think slightly extending my timeframe for when I wanted to post Nightmare’s Embrace will prove useful to drawing the comic, as it probably isn’t too surprising to learn I ended up adding several new pages that weren’t part of my original draft for this mini-comic. Right now, I’m prioritizing finishing the original drafted pages first, as they are the most important for the story – but when reading the original draft layouts, I noticed that there is some context that is probably clear to me but might be a little unclear to someone reading the comic without knowing who the characters are yet.
It’s been such fun adding these pages with additional context, as much of it covers parts of the characters that have been part of their backstory for a long time, but that I’ve never depicted visually before. It is also, as always, continually fascinating for me to compare how I draft new pages now with how I drafted pages from the original layout – those were originally started at least a year or more ago, now! I still marvel at how much longer those older drafts take me to “fix” compared with when I start a new page now. I wonder if it will often be this way when working on pages drafted a while back vs newly-drafted pages, or if it’s something that might equalize over time as my workflow for comic pages becomes smoother over time.
Compared with The Harbinger’s Path, the drawing process for Nightmare’s Embrace definitely feels much smoother, and I am very excited about how it’s turning out so far! I still seem to prefer working on all the pages at once – this means that all the pages are in various stages of completion, instead of being drawn sequentially. This limits how much I can or want to show as I work on the pages, as most of it will probably be finalized at around the same time, instead of page-by-page. But I wanted to share something! And so this post was written.
Profile artwork + Panel WIP’s
I ended up starting to update some of the profile artwork – I’ll put the current versions along with the older versions for comparison in the full post below. The updates are on the more subtle side – you may likely need to flip between them to spot the differences. Also a progress WIP for the second panel afterward!
