What's Happening - March 2026

Welcome to my monthly newsletter, giving you updates on the things I’ve been lettering, reading and writing this month.

What am I lettering?

Lots of stuff! This newsletter is a week late (I know, no one cares about the publishing schedule but me) because I was so bogged down in lettering work last week that I literally didn't have time to write it. It's a good problem to have, mostly! I feel like I write something like this every other month, but since my son was born, my lettering work has been a constant struggle of finding time to do it along with everything else in my life. As of last week, I'm now also back at my day job teaching, which means I'm having to work even harder to find those moments where I can actually work on comics.

I'm thinking of this too as the great letterer Ariana Maher posted about a week ago about how she manages her schedule. She comes at it from the perspective of tackling the time blindness that comes with ADHD, but I think the article and the way she breaks down her days are really interesting. Or at least, it is to me as someone currently trying to figure out how to squeeze more time out of the few hours a day that I get for lettering.

Luckily, the comics I've been working on have been really great! I just put together the first pass at the hardcover collection for Wild Wisps, which I think is going to look absolutely fantastic in print. But I'll talk more about that, and a few other campaigns currently live on Kickstarter in this next section.

Comics on Kickstarter

Live on Kickstarter

HELLFORGED #1-7

I'm joining the team for HELLFORGED with this 7th issue and I could not be more excited. This is the final issue in the first arc of the book, and a great place to jump on. You can get the whole first volume all at once, without any sort of waiting between issues. Even before I was brought on as a letterer for this book, HELLFORGED was a book that caught my eye. It's a super fun, science-fantasy story dealing with Arthurian mythology. It's the kind of story that only exists in comics and I really think you'll enjoy it if you check it out. Here's a quick synopsis of the book:

HELLFORGED is the story of a teenager named Liz who is living in New York City with her father, the fabled wizard Merlin, pretending to be normal people. Stranded on Earth after an accident transported Merlin and Liz to our world when she was a baby, Liz has grown up only knowing what Merlin has told her about their home - the utopian planet of Camelot - and the benevolent King Arthur.

Wild Wisps Book One - Hardcover

This book is huge. I have been working on putting the files together for this over the course of this month, and I have never worked on a collection this large. Wild Wisps is one of my favorite books to work on, a gorgeous fantasy story taking elements from stories like Game of Thrones and Pokémon and creating a wholly unique fantasy epic. This is going to be a beautiful collection. If you haven't jumped on the Wild Wisps train yet, this is the best place to do it!

In prelaunch:

Hero of Legend #6

Below the Depths

SCUM #1

What am I writing?

Keeping this section a bit shorter this month, because I want to focus on just one of my writing projects. Niccolò has been hard at work Hero of Legend #6 and we're going to bringing this final issue to Kickstarter in May! If you aren't already, make sure you're signed up for the prelaunch page.

I'm so excited for you guys to read this final issue. It really brings everything that we've been working on in this series together. Both from a story perspective, and Niccolò has had the chance to cut loose on the art like never before. Check out a few (out of sequence) preview pages:

If you've read any of the previous issues of Hero of Legend, you can't miss the epic conclusion to our story. Here's that prelaunch page one more time!

What am I reading?

Pretenders to the Throne of God

Pretenders to the Throne of God is the fourth book in the Tyrant Philosophers series from Adrian Tchaikovsky. I've written about how much I loved the previous books in this series. Tchaikovsky writes a LOT of books, but this series is by far his best.

Across the different books, the series follows the expansion of the "rational" Palleseen empire into a world full of all different types and traditions of magic. The Palleseen army takes each of those types of magic, grinds them up into batteries.

Each book takes place in a new location with a few returning, but many new characters, with a number if perspective character per book. The stories have a fun, clockwork quality to them, where these desperate point of view characters eventually crash together by the stories end. Each book explores a different part of the empires expansion, from an occupied city, the frontline of a war, intelligence operatives overthrowing a sovereign nation, and finally in this book, a long drawn out seige.

On a plot and character level, these books are great. But the reason I like these books so much is really the narrative voice Tchaikovsky uses in this series. The concepts and the way the narrative talks about its characters and setting scratches the Terry Prachett itch for me in a way nothing has since his death. And it does it without some of the cuter, sillier bits of Prachett's writing that I know can turn some people off.

Anyway, Pretenders to the Throne of God specifically is a great continuation to this series. The next book, the fifth in the series, is supposed to be the final one. But I think the whole series is worth checking out!

Anything else?

Nope! And since this newsletter is so late, talk to you again very soon!