On my story appearing in Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic:
An 800-year-old wizard wants to be a college football player in “The Football Phase” by Connor Moran. This fun, light tale follows the wizard’s long-suffering assistant as she attempts to keep his latest folly “under the radar” and evil, power-hungry wizards off his trail.
From The Fix.
I just got my contributor copy of “Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic.” As I mentioned back in June, they purchased a flash fiction piece of mine entitled “The Football Phase.” If you want to read what I write about other things than kitchen appliances, you should buy it here. In addition to my piece, there’s a bunch of other fun fiction and poetry based around the mashing up of SF/Fantasy concepts with sports and games. I haven’t read every piece yet, but I’ve already read a bunch that I’ve quite enjoyed. You should definitely check it out.
If you’re interested in reading one of the stories I’ve been writing, you’ll get your chance sometime around October when Story Number Five, a flash peice entitled “The Football Phase” appears in the anthology Sporty Spec: Tales of the Fantastic from Raven Electrick Ink. Watch this space: I’ll definitely let you guys know when the anthology becomes available.
Now that I’ve gotten my unexpected positive reinforcement, time to go back to the story mine and grind out some more fiction.
This is, I believe, the first time this version of this comic has appeared on the internet. I think it showed up in print one or two times, on a handbill I gave out at the Olympia Comics Festival and possibly in the Cooper Point Journal.
The noteworthy feature in this director’s cut edition is the beret in the third panel. I was still working around with the format at the time that I made this comic and I wasn’t sure how religiously I was going to adhere to leaving things the same every time. I did make this version at the time, but I guess I decided it looked better with out the beret. I’ve since changed my mind, and like the beret quite a bit. I guess that’s why we do Director’s Cuts.
I remember that I tried to use a couple of photographs of Che’ to get the beret, but all of them were at too much of an angle to make it work with the way the rice cooker is facing. So I took the beret from a photograph, then edited the star out of an actual photograph of Che’, then put it all together. See–lazily avoiding doing anything remotely resembling actual drawing can be a bunch of work too.
Beret aside, this particular comic was one of my favorites from the first batch I made. The first 40 or so comics were made before I started posting them in April, and so the first few got edited a bunch and shown to a lot of people. These are the ones that I can more or less recite from memory. This one also appeared along side some pretty great poetry and fiction in the introductory issue of Alice Blue Review, an excellent online quarterly literary journal run by some very talented old classmates of mine.
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