As Lionel Richie and Adele both said: Hello

Wherein I Expand To New Corners of the Internet

So Substack has been a thing for a little bit, but until now, my presence hasn’t quite made its way over.

For those who don’t know me and found this post through divine intervention, dumb luck, or a wrong click, my name is Erik Burnham. I write and sometimes draw comics, and I’ve written for things in other spaces (gaming, a screenplay/screenplay polish, prose of varying sorts, even a location-based experience.) I’m mostly known for a decade of work with the Ghostbusters franchise (comics and other projects), but I’ve also seen work with… well, the childhood favorites of Gen X: TMNT, Godzilla, Back to the Future, and more. (Even a cup of coffee with Marvel.) In my spare time, I wonder what precisely spare time is.

And now, back to what brings me to Substack.

To be honest, there are SO many social media/newsletter/connectivity apps out there, it took a long while to psych myself up. I am, or have been on, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Spoutible… so many. Engagement just doesn’t seem to be what it once was, and I’m not even thinking about it from a marketing POV! I live in a rural area where “comics” and “writing” are two things that the locals view as uninteresting at best and witchcraft at worst.

Thus have I come to try someplace new, to engage via both posts and notes. That’s the origin.

I post short nonsense on Twitter, Spoutible, and Mastodon. My MailChimp newsletter is pure marketing. Patreon is weekly comic strips, blogged thoughts, and whatever prose comes to mind (be they short stories or humorous anecdotes.) So I’ll have to find something new for Substack. Maybe I’ll pepper in a little bit of everything. Oh hey, look — a podcast feature.

Should you find this post and have a suggestion for things you might like to see… hit the comments and say so. Also, feel free to just say hello, or recommend a good book/movie/show/album! Definitely love recommendations.

And I hope you’ll subscribe while I figure things out.

In the meantime, it’s back to writing comics. I have a TMNT script in the home stretch. But first: here’s one of my old Downside comics:

Take care!