Fun fact: SNAKE NIGHT is now available for pre-order!
It’s true, one of the best ways to support an author’s new book is by pre-ordering. Early orders signal excitement to publishers and bookstores, which can make a HUGE difference in helping a new release find an audience.
And you don’t even have to spend your own money to support my book! You can request Snake Night at your local library, or even ask your kid’s school librarian to order a copy. We can all agree that kids need more access to snakes, occult mysticism and alchemical theory.
Once again - thank you for getting excited about my work. Graphic novels take a long time to make (this one took four years). So yeah moments like this are few and far between. I’m hoping to make the best of it! 🌙🐍
It’s finally here! The cover for Snake Night!
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This fall, get ready for a weird night of alchemy and the occult, set in the meta-movie universe of Shark Summer and Spirit Week.
I have so much more to say about this book. For now, let’s just celebrate the cover (and the 500 hours it took to get it JUST RIGHT 😅) #coverreveal #graphicnovelart
🎨 DRAWING FACES WITH IRA MARCKS ✏️
Calling all artists, doodlers, and creative minds! Join local author and illustrator Ira Marcks for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn to design expressive cartoon characters by mastering faces and facial expressions! 😄😮😲
When: Saturday, March 7 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Art Gallery/Paul Hicok Program Room
Who: ALL AGES welcome! 🎉
Whether you're 8 or 80, if you love to draw (or want to learn), this workshop is for you! Bring your creativity and get ready to bring characters to life on the page! ✨
📝 Registration required – only 19 spots left!
🔗 Sign up at thetroylibrary.org
Don't miss this chance to learn from a pro and unleash your inner cartoonist! 🖍️💫
#TroyPublicLibrary #IraMarcks #DrawingWorkshop #CartoonArt #TroyNY
New-In: Amazing debut LP from Human Hair s/t (Daksina) already OOP at source. And we price well under the secondary OCD www browser refresh crowd poaching/selling online.
Another beautiful looking release from Daksina, featuring director of the imprint Pat Murano (Decimus) and Richard Hoffman (Sightings, now Organs Obsolete). They’ve performed frequently over the last few decades, but Human Hair feels quite special, filled with movement, texture and space/atmosphere. Probably one of our favorites from their respective solo catalogs.
Edition of 100
Art: Ira Marcks
Housed in 12x24 Thick Card Stock
Silk screening: Alan Sherry at SIWA
And doing due diligence, they play @abasement_nyc over at @artistsspace this Monday March 2, 2026. We will be working elsewhere, unf, but that means more room to move about during this stacked bill.
Brother Bill Nace writes, “It has all the serpentine and liquid pace you would expect but with a new kind of melancholy … great to hear Richard in such stark relief, his taut and coiled punctuations keeping a kind of slithering sense of time while Pat unfurls vistas that don’t exactly spread out as they kind of infinitely zoom in on themselves circling back around and magnifying every … texture … Side B is (I kind of hate when music writers just mention mash ups of references but..I’m not a music writer and when I wrote this in my notes while listening it made too much sense to me to not include. Also I was told that “anything will suffice”!) P.I.L. playing Ry Cooder’s _Paris Texas_ soundtrack and I think stands as one of the kind of most ‘stranded on an alien planet of nothing” these guys have done. The desolation of space and subsequent tension is accumulative not palpable. It rises with time, slowly, because of all the patience and exploration that Pat and Richard allow for. The lifeline has slipped out of yr hands before you even realize that yr floating in open space.”
Highly recommended, folks.
Cc:
@patrickpantaloons@organs_obsolete@iramarcks@siwaprints
