HIRSCH TODOROVICH, A Writing Partnership

Andre & Vaysha Hirsch Todorovich in 'the Mid-TwentyTeens,' Qualicum Beach, BC

WISHING ALL CREATIVES A BRILLIANT NEW YEAR 2020! THE 20'S ARE HERE AGAIN; MANIFEST 'UNIQUE' WITH YOUR INTUITIVE LENS...

These photos were taken during the first half of the TwentyTeens: An interesting side-note is that the vintage polka-dotted scarf Vaysha is wearing over her hair, turned out to be the garment we would be hand-fasted with, just a few years later in Carmel, California, 2017. The heritage of the vintage polka-dotted scarf is that it once belonged to Vaysha's Oma. These Qualicum Beach photos preceded my ring proposal to Vaysha Hirsch in 2015, in the Tower Room of Craigdarroch Castle, Rockland Victoria.

AN UNDISCOVERED NEURAL PATHWAY

SQUARRIORS: SUMMER by ASH MACZKO & ASHLEY WITTER

Author's Creative Brand:
Genre: Allegorical Dystopian Graphic Novel
Length:f 13 pgs.
Publisher: Devil's Due Entertainment

1. World's Immersion:

The gateway to SQUARRIORS: SUMMER inevitably rips another snippet from the cataclysmic past events of 1985. The moment is a deeply emotional wound, and the blood of that traumatic feeling, flows directly into the dystopian world of 1996...and that first reveal is a savage, animalistic one.

When I first picked up the SPRING mini-series, the arenas of Ash Maczko's delineated world were shown sparingly, except for the iconic image of the Tin Kin's runaway train wreck. Here, now, in SUMMER, with the sun scorching, we are brought right inside the fearsome Amoni stronghold. The visions do not disappoint.

A Tower was taken in Spring (was it a wind-mill?), now a Maw encampment. This is one of the landmarks shown, to represent the war brewing, across the wild rural forests of Illinois. And isn't that fascinating? What we refer to, in a world we humans would know - of course! Illinois! - has been utterly reduced to a savage land, where no creature is ever safe, but scrambling for shelter, and the redemption of their ways of life.

W.T.M.B.a.w.c.k. EXCERPTS #37-42

EXCERPT #37: "Living strange...is motivated by an intuition to open 'random doors,' to touch some closer truth within."

EXCERPT #38: "Burn a fire inside this space and send the smoke up through the top, communicating a dream to the world."

EXCERPT #39: "Orange light dapples in the cab through a leafy canopy overhead; dreamy glints on a drowsy, mid-afternoon."

W.T.M.B.a.w.c.k. EXCERPTS #31-36

Andre Hirsch Todorovich in Craigdarroch Castle; Photo by Vaysha Hirsch

EXCERPT# 31: "Life is flux. Only the most consistent signals penetrate this ephemeral x-factor of an on-going story."

EXCERPT #32: "Together with the dreamers, misfits, beautiful, homely, unbalanced; the promise...to explore being human."

EXCERPT #33: "Trees gesture elegantly, mountains form with arcane insight, clouds shape up like someone dreaming them up."

W.T.M.B.a.w.c.k. EXCERPTS #25-30

Andre Hirsch Todorovich in Qualicum Beach; Photo by Maria Chantelle Tucker

EXCERPT #25:
"This is a playpen for bad men.  I remember not to play too loose where I am likely to be zeroed in on."

EXCERPT #26:
"When I hear how the words flow, I instinctively know if they work. No one on the planet can say otherwise."

EXCERPT #27: 
"The instant chill is encoded in my neural pathways, down ancient branch-ways in my soul, awaiting a trigger."

AFTER RESONANCE with TEAM ASH

Team Ash, 2015; composite photo provided by Vaysha Hirsch

ASH MACZKO is the creator and writer of the SQUARRIORS comic book serial for Devil's Due Entertainment.  He is also the creator and organizer of the pop-culture event known as "Count-I-Con" in Grayslake, Illinois.  Ash lives in the Northwest suburbs of Chicagoland.

ASHLEY WITTER is the illustrator for the comic book serial, SQUARRIORS. Ashley recently worked with Yen Press illustrating and adapting the graphic novel of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: CLAUDIA'S STORY, and THE WOLF GIFT.  Ashley is also an illustrator for the FANTASY FLIGHT card game, NETRUNNER, the comic book series BLOOD THIRSTY: ONE NATION UNDER WATER, and her own original comic book, SCORCH. Ashley graduated from Madison Area Technical College with a degree in Animation and Conceptual Development.  She grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.  

1.  How did the two of you meet ~ event, purpose, or accident ~ and what happened?

ASH:  A random encounter at Nocturna, in downtown Chicago.

ASHLEY:  Yes, the odds of us meeting were incredibly random.  I had just finished work on the Twilight graphic novels, and took a trip down to Chicago on a whim.  When I met Ash, to put it simply, we were kindred spirits.  We were certainly good at combining our efforts to get things done.  Hence, we're now known as Team Ash.