In-progress comic panel showing “Riannoc” from Guild Wars 2. I’ve been having so much fun drawing this page, and couldn’t resist posting a progress crop. I’ll leave which comic is is from a mystery for now!
A slightly updated WIP is in the full post below, though I’m slightly leaning toward the one above right now:
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!
Visit September 6, 2026 for a closing party at Paper Pushers! RSVP here.(Partiful invite)
1200 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
April 26 – September 15, 2026
Now through Sep 13:
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
Sep 15-24th: 2 – 5pm
If you’d like to check out the space, visit before September 15th, 2026 (Edit Aug 30, 2026: before September 13, 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!
Seattle Printers Guild’s Instagram post announcing the store opening here.
Seattle Printers Guild’s official website here.
Tumblr post where I found the link for Seattle Restored here – 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!
Small WIP panel crop from Nightmare’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.
The current live version of the Nightmare’s Embrace site is mainly an info page with character artwork, but since the soft-launch, the offline version of the site has all the comic pages at their various stages of WIP. Something about seeing all the pages in their web layout is really exciting for me with drawing these comics. I think that’s when they start feeling more “real” or tangible to me. It makes finishing them seem more within reach when I can browse through all the pages in their web layouts. It gives me a different impression compared to looking at the pages within explorer or an image viewer on my computer.
Maybe it’s because I can interact with the pages in how their final layout will be when the offline pages go online. Or maybe it’s because it is very satisfying for me to work on a page, update that page in the offline site, and then browse that part of the comic and see what impression the new page has compared to how it looked when I began working on it that day. It almost feels like a little trick you can play on your mind to make the task of finishing a comic seem less daunting.
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.
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!
The Harbinger’s Path Trahearne & Malyck fan comic debuted in print at Manga Ichiba during Fanime last week! Thank you so much for your interest and patience waiting for these books, and thank you again if you could visit! It was incredible meeting Trahearne fans in-person. I’ll never forget the experience!
I’ll do a proper write-up about the convention another time, but because I did say I would have information about these books after the convention, I wanted to put this post up first.
More in the full post!
Updated the most recent print update post (Print Update #3) with additional photos from the main book (as well as the bonus booklet)!
May 28, 2026: Updated with book specs.