Chris Schweizer

@schweizercomics.bsky.social

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Cartoonist/Kentucky Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. Hopkins County, KY. He/him schweizercomics.com outlawsapprentice.com

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David Bowie in that crazy outfit with the circle legs
An exact (if scaled-up) replica of the Dendra armor, made by the Koryvantes Association of Historical Studies: https://koryvantesstudies.org/studies-in-english-language/page215-2/
still from TRUE DETECTIVE in which busted-face Woody Harrelson is being restrained following a fight
Title card: Episode 16. A man with a grey mustache and long hair and another with blonde hair and sideburns appear to be restraining a man with a bloodied nose
Photo of me and my kid a decade or so back in a deadfall-and-antlers igloo that my dad made for the kiddos, just because it's the sort of thing one does in the mountains when there is deadfall and antlers about and you have spare time and kiddos that you want to entertain, but whose appearance looks likes some of the creepy doodads you see in TD season 1
rough drawing of a teal-with-goldish speckles broken sword on a keyring
Image is a watercolored drawing of hill with a windswept hawthorn tree on top, stones and rocks, some winter grass, and a man in no shoes painting at an easel, a pipe in his mouth. There is a label with a white dragon and a red dragon framing it that says "Dinas Emrys - Gwynedd/Snowdonnia 6 April 2023." Other arrowed labels say "the foundations of the ruins of Vortigern's tower," "The hidden glade with the dragon pool," and "spot where, discalced, I took a pretty rough tumble, slipping on the wet grass and doing some mischief to my hand and ribs."
A sheep lays on the ground in front of a low metal gate strung between two old stone walls that separate a pasture from a moss-covered hill with stone steps laid in amongst gnarled trees
a stone-and-dirt path curling around a tree on a hillside
Wide shot of a stone fence running as far as the eye can see, with hawthorn trees around an mountains in the background. A sheep grazes on the right.
A path curves, with bramble on either side; the foreground has one shade of green, the grass on either side (and in the middle of) the path, and background has a different shade, the more yellow moss that covers the boulders on the hill
A very-temporary mostly-clear sky. Light illuminates one of the two peaks standing above a valley.
From a stone bridge, looking down at a clear creek lined by a few wind-twisted trees and at a pasture with a handful of sheep grazing
a craggy hill with brown cover and a stone fence
A path hemmed in by a stone fence on one side and a rocky hill on the other; both have moss and growth on them, a mossy tree branch grows out over the path. Inside the pasture ringed by the fence is a little livestock feed station.
Photo of a cliffside; there is slightly yellow heather and darker pine needle-colored growth in front of the rocks; behind the rocks are the tops of hawthorn trees; behind those, in the distance, are mountains
Photo of a pasture, two concrete tracks run through the grass. A lamb stands next to one of these tracks, just chillin'
Photo of a muddy path running alongside a stacked-stone fence with wind-bent trees and boulders behind it. Everything is covered in moss.
A long winding path running along an old stacked-stone fence covered in moss. A bright yellowish green ground cover competes with terra cotta colored bramble. Hints of the sky peak through beneath heavy cloud
Photo of me (the guy posting this thread) in a barn coat, with a pipe, halfway up on mountain with others behind me. It's early Spring and stuff hasn't started blooming yet. I have a beard with white in it. Three years later there is a lot more white in it than one sees in this photo.
Image of a timber and wood fantasy castle with a lot of open porches with a wooden palisade around it and old timey buildings and construction tents in a muddy square, with people milling around. Morning light. Text in a wood-looking frame says "Appalachian-inspired fantasy adventure"
Title card for episode 15: Teenaged Otis has his back braced against some large doors
roughs for a fold-out poster of a bird's-eye-view map of the fantasy town of Cedarcrest
Mostly blue landscape-format poster with red accents and text showing a stairway down a cliffside to a radio station. An old ship is partially visible in the water through THE FOG
two movies next to each other on a streaming carousel: Drop Dead Gorgeous and But I'm a Cheerleader
Title card: Episode 14/Read on Webtoons and Patreon. Illustration shows a gruff man in a trenchcoat-collalred cape and armor on some stairs, behind him helmeted guards harass and beat folks in the muddy street
Photo of Thomas Sidney Jesup in uniform
Drawing of a dark-skinned Black man in his late 30s wearing a relatively form-fitting white-with-yellow accents Seminole outfit. He has two feathers sticking out of a yellow head scarf and holds his yellow sash, into which is tucked a knife. Drawing is over a light blue background.
Watercolored drawing of Thomas Paine, who looks like Judd Hirsch in old timey clothing, holding up a copy of COMMON SENSE
Photo of a comic panel being inked, with the lettering partially complete but on detour as the back of a fella's head is inked which will be in front of the last two letters
Photo of a page being inked, the word "CREEAAK" drawn across the page
screenshot of the Tubi screen showing Sean Bean in a trench coat over his dark green 95th Rifles uniform
Jeff Daniels wrapping up his speech as Chamberlain in GETTSYBURG (1993)
Title card for Episode 13. In the midst of a crowd, a man in lamellar armor amd a cloak that suggests the shape of a noir trenchcoat arrests a bruised and bloody man, and points for the benefit of a helmeted guard with a club.
Mass market paperback graphic novel: Outlaw's Apprentice: Broken Blade, by Chris Schweizer. The logo is in orange and features a bronze sword with a green patina framing an image of a teenaged boy and a woman surrounded by guys in helmets with swords. The boy looks nervous, the woman excited. She holds aloft a sword. There is a blurb: "Adventure Storytelling at its finest by a master of the craft" - Mike Maihack, Cleopatra in Space.
Photo of a man sticking his arm holding a sword through the frame of a book cover. The book says outlaws apprentice, ALA annual 2026