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What’s with Mr. Guy?
📜The brief, spoiler-free backstory: ✨STORY TIME✨ I’ve been working on Mr. Guy since the nineteen nineties. So clearly I LOVE this character. But, if you know my work you probably know not to take anything I create at face value. So let me tell you a little about him. He’s a halfwit half-goblin f-boy who…
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Return of the Queen
It’s been a long and winding road to get here. Let’s start with the story behind the Queen. Tracy Queen is returning, and I want to tell you what that means to me. It’s been a long and winding road to get here, so let’s start with the story behind her. About ten years ago,…
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Give A kid turtle soup…
STORY TIME! What turtle soup did to me as a kid. I’m gonna get a little personal, are you ready? Normally I try to keep my updates brief and mostly visual. That’s what works best for me personally so that’s my habit in sharing. However it occurs to me that unless they haven’t been showing…
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The Creative Journey so far…
What I’m doing Howdy… Wow, it sure has been a while since I’ve put together a blog post for you over here. I’m tempted to apologize, but really I think it was for the best. I needed time to reflect, reconfigure, and grow. I thought I knew what I was doing on my creative journey……
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The Fall of 2020 – not a headline, just a blog post.
THE BREAKDOWN: Okay, so I don’t blog very much on my site. I’ve got a lot going on between managing our flagship Oneshi Press site, our site for the PACK comicbook, our site for our beloved Tracy Queen, oh the rich and ever-expanding Children of Gaia‘s site, hey did I mention the Mr. Guy: Zombie…
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Mr. Guy and the Origins Anthology
Some backstory on Oneshi Press Comics Anthologies: Howdy, friends! So, as some of you may know, I’ve been working on visual storytelling for quite some time. Writer/Illustrator Chris Covelli and I started working together on what would become Children of Gaia (COG) in the early 90s. That series has since found a home at Oneshi…
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Our biggest thing yet!
Well hello friendos, Since last I blogged at y’all, we blew past our goal for Tracy Queen Volume 2 on kickstarter back in March at nearly 125 percent! That was amazing! It’s now available to purchase in print or digital at oneshipress.com. And we’ve taken up arms to launch a project that’s been in the…
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In the last 24 hours of our campaign for this awesome graphic novel.
SOUND THE ALARMS! Hey folks, we’re now in the last 24 hours of our kickstarter campaign for TRACY QUEEN V.2: DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS. You can get volumes 1 & 2 and find out all about Tracy’s dark past and how it ties into a multi-national crime-syndicate, why the self proclaimed king of pr0n is after her,…
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More Tracy Queen
You need more Tracy Queen in your life. You wanna know why? Of course you do… In Tracy Queen‘s writer Lynsey G‘s words: Some more insight from Lynsey G on the topic: “I felt this was the right time to launch ‘Tracy Queen’ and bring this message of female empowerment home through this unlikely and…
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Tracy Queen is coming
That’s right, Tracy Queen is coming! Team Oneshi is launching a kickstarter campaign for Tracy Queen. Written by award winning author, Lynsey G, and illustrated by Jayel Draco, Tracy Queen is a Sci-Fi, sex-positive, feminist, action-hero, who creates an army of cyborg-clones on her quest for liberation. The kickstarter campaign represents our quest, to bring it…
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What Next? Needs Info
Howdy friends, I sat down to write an update providing some info about the many working pieces of my career currently. I want to fill you in on Oneshi Press, what it is, how we got here, what we’re doing. My part of it, the rest of it, etc. I realized that it’s a big…
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Oneshi Press
Progressive. Immersive. Gorgeous. Oneshi Press is an independent publishing company, founded by Jayel Draco and Lynsey G in 2015 and based in Missoula, Montana. We are focused on creating richly illustrated fantasy and sci-fi graphic novels, comics, and art books. Our mission is to explore dark corners, shatter taboos, emphasize progressive ideals and immerse readers in fully-realized worlds, while offering…
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Standing Rock: Protecting more than you might think
NOTE: This is not a news article, this a blog entry. The opinions expressed here are simply that, opinions. The information relayed here was collected first-hand on-site from individual people at Oceti Sakowin Camp. As some of you may know, Lynsey G. and I recently traveled to Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock Indian Reservation from…
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Interview with my Nonna: Part 2
The second installment of “Interview with my Nonna.” It’s my pleasure to share with you Part II picking up right where we left off in Part I, Enjoy! So my Nonna (grandmother), Alda Rose “Chichi” Hodgskin, was in town visiting our family out here in MT all the way from from NY, where I grew…
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Interview with my Nonna: Part 1
Alda Rose “Chichi” Hodgskin April 1st 1932 – November 20th 2021She always loved to share her stories. Some years ago she and I decided to record some for posterity. What a gift to be able to spend a little more time with her whenever I want with this 2 part podcast “Interview with my Nonna”.…
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Great Nations – Free Sample
Through Oneshi Press, Jayel Draco is giving away the introduction to The Great Nations of Rendaraia as a free sample! As many of you already know, Jayel Draco has been working with Chris Covelli on designing the universe of Children of Gaia (or COG) since the early 90s. Around 2012 their efforts were joined by Laure…
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Jayel Draco’s Art Supported by Oneshi Press
Oneshi Press: We build worlds. . . You’re invited. Jayel Draco’s Art is Supported by “patrons” who have subscibed on Oneshi Press’ Patreon Campaign Our subscribers get a ton of great exclussives to choose from including: watching Jayel live-stream his creating process, PSDs, High Res Finals, Works in Progress, Wallpapers, Finished Pages, Bundled .pdf of…
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Oneshi Press – Launched!
Big News! Co-Founders Lynsey G and Jayel Draco have launched Oneshi Press and they’re just so excited to tell you all about it! What does this mean for you? More pertinent, socially responsible, progressive, and inclusive Visual Art and Narrative in your world! If you subscribe, you’ll have more of it in your life! The…
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Jayel Draco’s Reel 2016
Hello and thanks for stopping by. I’m super excited to share “Jayel Draco – Reel 2016” with you. Enjoy! Jayel Draco’s Reel 2016. Featuring: Animation, Compositing, Visual Effects, and Motion Graphics. This video showcases Jayel Draco’s works on such projects as: Marvels’ “Astonishing X-Men: Gifted – Motion Comic”. Neal Adams’ “Blood” Motion Comic. Various Panopticon…