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Greetings! Welcome to the online fortress of Katherine Blakeney – author, animator, illustrator, archaeologist, film historian and student pilot.

“Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
– Dracula (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Follow me on INSTAGRAM for updates on all my new projects and to find out about upcoming events and appearances.

Latest News:

Let’s meet in person! I’ll be exhibiting at the following events:

Past Events:

Doubletree By Hilton, Manchester, NH
June 19-21, 2026
Bangor, ME, February 20-22, 2026

Workshop: Ten-inch Movie Stars: Creating a Stop Motion Animated Film

Ellsworth Public Library, Ellsworth, ME, December 6, 2025

Bangor, ME, November 14-16, 2025
Mid-Maine Comic and Toy Con, July 26-27, 2025
FanExpo Philadelphia, May 16-18, 2025
February 21-23, 2025

New York Comic Con Writers Block 2024 Booth WB-19!

Latest Podcast Appearances:

Indie Comics Relay

Geek Cast Live 11.503 (also on Spotify)

Get In Toon!

Fortress of Comic News

The Media Lunch Break

Nerds of the Round

Bitten Apple TV

Yorwick Castle Publishing is calling for submissions for our first anthology, Blue Benches: Self-Portrait of a Monster. Learn more and submit your art or writing HERE: Yorwick Castle Publishing

My first full-length graphic novel, Napoleon’s Starship, has just funded successfully on Kickstarter! If you missed your chance to grab a copy during the campaign, Wayward Raven and I will be appearing at comic cons all over the US and will have copies of the book available to buy. Keep an eye on my website and https://waywardraven.com/ for announcements of upcoming appearances.

The Junkyard of Eden is making its festival rounds:

The links above (and below) will teleport you to various areas of my domain.

Illustration and Graphic Novels is all about my illustrated works, including samples, dream projects and a link to my official portfolio.
My animation fortress, Yorwick Castle Studio, guards my stop motion short films and commissioned projects as well as photo galleries of sets, props, characters and costumes that I designed. Details of upcoming screenings can be found there.
The Novels portal leads to my literary works, including my debut novel about extraterrestrial archaeology, Digging in the Stars (Blaze Publishing, 2017) and details about my works-in-progress, mostly Historical Fiction.
Silent Monsters is the pathway into my Film Studies research, which continues to inform every aspect of my life and art. This page builds on my PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh, UK on Silent Era Adaptations of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Gothic Novels with a Special Emphasis on Aesthetic and Psychological Interpretations of the Monster Figure. Get to know all of my favorite twisted, misunderstood, and distorted denizens of Silent Era cinema.
Step through the Archaeology portal to learn about my adventures with the South Asasif Conservation Project, an archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt that I’ve been working with since 2001.
Archaeovoyeur’s Treasure Trove is my blog about digging up and treasuring the ancient, the arcane, the old-fashioned, the antique and otherwise antediluvian in the unlikeliest places. I call it archaeovoyeurism