Rectangular comic panel showing an old timey urban street at night, lit by multiple lamps. A barricade has been erected across the middle of a street, and armed folks mill around. A teenager with a basket is calling out "Got more arrows!"

Friends! My new fantasy adventure comic, OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE, has begun, with new episodes releasing each Wednesday.

Read it on webtoons:
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...

Or read it on my Patreon:
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Shares and word-spreading very much appreciated!

I keep saying it to artistic directors. This is a show that reaches out to a demographic that isn't generally invited to the theatre, but WILL show up, in-person, if asked.

We've got two more weeks. It's gorgeous, intimate and inviting. I'm so proud of it and all the people who brought it to life.

- Last night, the cast did a live-play D&D session with @levelupgamesatl.bsky.social Community Manager Brad Williams. It was a follow-up to the most successful Meet the Cast event Aurora has had yet.

- We got a nice feature of Casey Ford's gorgeous photos in BroadwayWorld Atlanta.

www.broadwayworld.com/atlanta/arti...

- We got a lovely review in Speakeysie, an Atlanta arts blog. Their takeaway? "INITIATIVE is more than a play about Dungeons & Dragons. It’s about friendship, mortality, and the stories we tell to survive both. Highly recommended—and definitely worth adding to your quest log."

- Our review in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is live. Key quote: "York has written a story about the bonds that carry us through the worst moments of our lives... This play is well worth the roll of the dice."

- We're recommended by The Suzi Bass Awards, Atlanta's professional theatre honors.

As we're approaching the second half of the run of my play INITIATIVE at Aurora Theatre, I want to highlight some fun stuff.

Happy opening to the cast, crew and creative team of INITIATIVE at Aurora Theatre. On stage, a woman in a wedding dress, wielding a sword, is hand in hand with a man in a suit (sans jacket) with a wizard staff. Around them, the set crackles with energy.

Let’s go.

Though I am only a PC Gamer writer in a technical sense. 😂Don't want @elahti.bsky.social to be mad at me.

Thank you, my dude!

Any homies in Georgia, my old friend, actor, playwright and @pcgamer.com writer @jkobbster.bsky.social is premiering his D&D-based play, Initiative at Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville tonight! Get those tickets through April 19th -- the script's already collecting awards, don't miss it

Initiative - Aurora Theatre A group of friends gather around the gaming table for one final campaign-one that transcends the boundaries of fantasy and reality. As Dave battles an aggressive illness, he turns to Dungeons & Dragon...

A very few people in media follow me!

If you’re one of them and are Atlanta-based, I’d love to comp you to the world premiere of my play, INITIATIVE. It’s about mortality and friendship and D&D. If Our Town dealt with TTRPGs.

Message me! Here more info:

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HERE MORE INFO.

You know what I mean…

Initiative - Aurora Theatre A group of friends gather around the gaming table for one final campaign-one that transcends the boundaries of fantasy and reality. As Dave battles an aggressive illness, he turns to Dungeons & Dragon...

A very few people in media follow me!

If you’re one of them and are Atlanta-based, I’d love to comp you to the world premiere of my play, INITIATIVE. It’s about mortality and friendship and D&D. If Our Town dealt with TTRPGs.

Message me! Here more info:

auroratheatre.com/productions-...

INITIATIVE gets a brief mention at the end of this, which will always be a big deal for the college student and early-career professional that absolutely devoured each copy of @americantheatre.org magazine he could get his hands on.

Outlaw's Apprentice Otis is a teenaged artist-in-training, but when he and the former mercenary to whom he is apprenticed find themselves on the wrong side of the law, they have to make their escape across the country wi...

Hey, friends, if you have a webtoons account, consider subscribing my new comic: OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE! It'll start serializing weekly on April 15th.

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...

I have entered three different draws for Nike Mind 001s and I am OVER IT.

Partners in the Arts: Jacob York and Galen Crawley support each other in theater and in life - ARTS ATL Dating for nearly 13 years and married since 2016, writer-performers Galen Crawley and Jacob York more than love one another. They’re also huge fans of each other’s art. “I respect him as an artist so...

- And I was able to discuss my favorite topic in the whole world, @galencrawley.bsky.social, with Benji Carr of ArtsATL.

www.artsatl.org/partners-in-...

Are you someone who wants to give me the opportunity to discuss some of the topics that are near to my heart? There's never been a better time.

Episode 2179 - Jacob York Talks Initiative at Aurora Theatre YouTube video by Ash Said It Show

- I talked with Ash Brown of The Ash Said It show about... the world premiere of INITIATIVE at Aurora Theatre. (March 26th, mind you...)

youtu.be/h-jFH3xfWcc?...

Aurora Theatre to host world premiere of 'Initiative' Although Aurora Theatre’s staging of Jacob York’s “Initiative” later this month is a world premiere, it’s not as if the pages of the script are hot off the presses.

I've had three different interviews hit in the last 24 hours.

- I spoke with Chris Starrs at Gwinnett Daily Post about the world premiere of INITIATIVE at Aurora Theatre.

www.gwinnettdailypost.com/entertainmen...

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

Gestrals are just Minions. I can’t imagine this is an original thought.

Book cover with a roughly sketched image inside a series frame. Frame has a broken sword and the title is "Outlaw's Apprentice: Broken Blade." Sketch is of a teenage boy and an adult woman surrounded by sword-wielding fellas in vaguely-skullish helmets that hide their features. There''s a castle in the background with a tall, mostly timber keep and slanting peaked roofs, surrounded by a wooden palisade. Behind that, a forest.

Landed on a composition for the cover for book 1. Pretty happy with it, hopefully it'll convey what the series is going to have (duo leads, swordfighting, trees, armed and masked agents of an unjust state, castle of unfamiliar design, mud).

The cast for Jacob York’s Initiative at Aurora Theatre. It runs March 26 - April 19.

The world premiere of INITIATIVE at metro-Atlanta’s Aurora Theatre is getting closer. Our cast was announced yesterday and rehearsals begin on Monday. I sure would love for you to take the time to come see it.

Baby blue shirt in the top left hard cam shot that’s MEEEEEEE, baby. Seeing this live was beyond rad.

Was entering my production schedule into my calendar.

The college production of INITIATIVE closes next Saturday and, two days later, the professional premiere begins rehearsals.

What a crazy, enjoyable time to dive headfirst into feeling like an artist again.

Edmund McMillen Wants You to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions A frank conversation about Mewgenics, troubled childhoods, and anxious parenthood

Something I've been thinking about since this interview:

Yes, art is inherently political -- even if its creator doesn't like or claim or politics. But art is also autobiographical. And those autobiographical veins are worth mining.

Me too. I wanna do this too.

You know what? I’m gonna go out on a limb.

I’m gonna do it before he does it.

Why not? I mean, while we’re all just sayin’ things.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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