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While making The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue I recorded a bunch of reflections on why and how I was making the book. These microcasts were shared exclusively with people who supported me on Patreon (I’m sharing the entire process of making the next Doctor Baer story there right now!).

To count down to the book’s release, I’m putting some of those reflections into the Thunder Punch Daily feed. Please note: the book was titled Baron von Bear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue at the time of this recording. But baronvonbear.com does take you to the book’s landing page. Here’s the original post:

This time I respond to a prompt provided by a listener: Do you feel your political beliefs make their way into your work, would you want them to, and how would you feel if someone challenged you on teaching your beliefs to children?

So this one is all about how I think about expressing my beliefs in my work.

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While making The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue I recorded a bunch of reflections on why and how I was making the book. These microcasts were shared exclusively with people who supported me on Patreon (I’m sharing the entire process of making the next Doctor Baer story there right now!).

To count down to the book’s release, I’m putting some of those reflections into the Thunder Punch Daily feed. Please note: the book was titled Baron von Bear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue at the time of this recording. But baronvonbear.com does take you to the book’s landing page. Here’s the original post:

Baron von Bear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue celebrates the physical peril of adventure fiction. But it does not celebrate the act of physically overcoming an enemy. Today I share how my upbringing and media of the 80s helped shape this value in my storytelling.

• Learn more about The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue
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While making The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue I recorded a bunch of reflections on why and how I was making the book. These microcasts were shared exclusively with people who supported me on Patreon (I’m sharing the entire process of making the next Doctor Baer story there right now!).

To count down to the book’s release, I’m putting some of those reflections into the Thunder Punch Daily feed. Please note: the book was titled Baron von Bear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue at the time of this recording. But baronvonbear.com does take you to the book’s landing page. Here’s the original post:

Baron von Bear is a spooky fantasy adventure graphic novel for middle graders. That genre comes with the expectation of fantastic locations. This time I dig into why I chose the ones I did, why I chose three, and how these kinds of settings worked on me as a child.

Suggest a thought/question/wondering here! 

Links mentioned:

• My Nerd Nite talk on Sunbow cartoon writing 
• My Transformers podcast 
• The map of BvB’s world 

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I’m talking aggressive battle tortoises on this edition of Thunder Punch Daily. Why is Taft a tortoise, and why does he walk on all fours? And how is he inspired by my younger brother?

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In early July 2024 my old friend Rob Stenzinger visited me in Columbus, and we found ourselves having the kinds of discussions we recorded for the Lean Into Art cast. Particularly topics surrounding our projects we’ve been working on for the past two-to-three years and how we’re thinking about marketing them. So we turned on a mic and captured some of the thinking we’ve been doing.

We set up pretty hastily, so the audio quality isn’t what we had on Lean Into Art. But the gentle, thoughtful approach to art-making topics is all there. I hope you enjoy it!

Links mentioned:

• Word Turtle Island, Rob’s new game where you use words as weapons to rescue books and readers
• The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue, my middle-grade graphic novel where an archivist of spooky artifacts learns to be an adventurer

• Learn more about The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue
• Suggest a topic for TPD here
• TPD theme music by Eliott Drozd
• Intro VO by Tara Platt

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