Doomslakers

Here are the first couple of pages of Doomslakers, which is the most recent comic I'm actively working on. These are still WIPs, to some degree. I will probably change a little of the dialog and maybe tweak some of the art.

The Barbaribunny

Following up the previous post, here's a preview of "The Carrots of Gorr", a black and white yarn featuring Sheegra the Barbaribunny. More funny animal fantasy fun!

What I'm going for with both Hoofnar and Sheegra (they inhabit the same world) is old school funny animal humor. When I was working on Zyn Dweomer, I was reluctant to go full tilt with this idea. I avoided puns and tried to keep a semi-serious tone. But with this project, set in the savage realms of Yukaria, I am basically indulging my Captain Carrot and Conan fixations as I see fit.

This story is scripted at about 24 pages. But I generally edit mercilessly as I go, so it will probably end up around half that length.

Hoofnar the Barbullian

Sunlight burns my skin glistens on my sinew as I climb from the cavernous cave and post on ye olde Wizards of Ur blog! First, I hope all my WoU friends are rocking out and kicking a lot of ass. From what I've noticed, they are. And it makes me smile.

I'm going to post some unfinished comics. These are stories I've worked on here-and-there but never actually finished up. Not that they're dead, I'm just taking a long time to do them by not working on them for months at a stretch.

Here's page one of Hoofnar the Barbullian. The status on this is work-in-progress with pages 2-4 pencilled and lettered. This particular story, called "The Problem of Weasels", will probably run about 8 pages. I would like to publish it as a print comic, with a few other short tales, either as a Hoofner title or bundled with The Barbaribunny as a funny animal fantasy spectacular. Fun.

DCC RPG

No posts for months & months, then all of a sudden two come along at once...

The Dungeon Crawl Classic RPG is here. Well, I just got my copy of it anyway. It's still listed as a pre-order at the Goodman Games site:

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

This MASSIVE, hard-backed tome clocks in at over 470 pages and is a brand new set of role-playing game rules, that hark back to the early days of D&D. It's not a clone, though, it's a whole new set of rules, inspired by where the game might have gone if it has stayed true to its original roots.

Goodman Games have been publishing their 'Dungeon Crawl Classics' d20 supplements for a number of years (some of which I contributed art to), and in the past have put out other luminous works such as original D&D co-creator Dave Arenson's "Blackmoor" campaign setting. Now they've taken the logical next step and come up with the ruleset you always wished you had. Yes, these are the rules to kick your imagination into high gear and re-ignite your love of fantasy RPGs!

The icing on the cake, for me, is that it's chock-full of gorgeous old-school black & white RPG art, much of it new works by artist whose pieces appeared in the first edition TSR D&D books such as Jeff Easley, Jim Holloway, Diesel LaForce, Russ Nicholson, Jim Roslof, Jeff Dee, Erol Otus, Doug Kovacs, Stefan Poag & Peter Mullen. Seriously, it's worth buying just for this amazing art... oh and it also includes a dozen or-so cartoons by yours-truly (previously posted here). Man, I am so honored to be included in this illustrious company.

Check it out

My first Kickstarter campaign!

Tahiti is a boardgame created by a guy called David Whitcher being published by Minion Games - I did the art for it. It's an excellent game, very easy to learn and play, great for friends and family, what we call a 'gateway game'. It has a strong 'Euro'-mechanic and will please both casual and serious gamers. The Kickstarter page just went live and run through June 19th, so please spread the word far and wide!

Click to see more...

Pewfell #1 is now availabel on Graphicly

Perfect for your web or mobile device...

Grave Business Review

Dark Mischief

Halloween is coming...and so is Dark Mischief!

Dark Mischief is a 200+ page anthology of great spooky, whimsical, and mischievous comics stories

Dark Mischief Volume One will feature stories by Mitch Byrd (Starman, Predator, Starship Troopers), AP. Furtado (Heavy Metal), Dirk Manning (Nightmare World), Thomas Hall (Robot 13), Dani Jones (My Sister the Freak), Dave Flora (Ghost Zero), Sara Turner (Ghosts of Pineville), Kim Holm, Mark Rudolph, Cayetano Garza, Sam Kirkman, Pam Harrison, Wayne Spencer, Kenny Durkin, Thomas Florimonte Jr, and more.

The collection will be edited by, Jenni Gregory with an assist by Barry Gregory, design by me, and a cover by Mitch Byrd.

The Kickstarter Campaign:

We're fortunate in that we don't need to generate funds for printing.

So what's the purpose of this campaign? Simple ... We're hoping to raise some funds to pay advances to the artists and writers who have contributed to this project. That's it. 100% of all proceeds from this campaign (after paying for the rewards themselves) go directly to the creators who contributed stories as advances on their royalties.

We're offering some great rewards -- including a limited edition of the book available ONLY as a Kickstarter reward! Take a look and see for yourself!

You can find more information and story previews at the Dark Mischief blog!

That's it!
Play Nice. :)

Pewfell in "Drain of Chaos" is done!!!

The world's most irresponsible wizard, is about to face his greatest challenge yet... fatherhood!

His wife pregnant and his home collapsing, Pewfell takes a job with the city sewer patrol. But with a zombie-mad dictator running the government and a bloodthirsty army of chaos outside the gates, this may not be the best time to start a family.

Join our hero as he deals with dirty diapers, unreliable contractors, idiotic co-workers, and a diminutive blue lodger hell-bent on a career in musical theater...

Order now!

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10 years in the making, this is the fourth volume of Pewfell's adventures, complete and in print for the very first time. The story features over 500 individual strips, revised and expanded from it's original appearance as a webcomic on ModernTales.com. Presented in a large-format, deluxe hard-cover edition with160 full-color pages.

http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=92451

Grave Business Review - with Tom and Melody Vasel

Grave Business is the most recent game I illustrated for Minion Games:

Una the Blade Tumblr

Check out my new Tumblr for daily, yes DAILY updates!

bibliodyssey

monsters, maps, demons, bugs, weapons..   this blog has it all.

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

A bunch of art, natch

Sorry I haven't posted here in a while. I'm dumping a few recent tidbits for the pleasure and enjoyment of that guy in Italy...

Space Ranger Catgirl

I like to mix up my genres like a plate of mashed potatoes, corn, mac-n-cheez, and meatloaf. When I did my King Arthur RPG "The Questing Beast" I could not help but make it anthropomorphic...just another wrinkle to the idea.

Catgirl, space, sci-fantasy. Now if I can work her into a story that is based on McBeth it will be awesome.

LotR: Eowyn

Here is what Eowyn might have looked like if I was casting. Of course it would be difficult for her to pretend to be a dude!

(This is an older drawing that I recently dashed some colors upon.)

Knights of Badassom Trailer

Those Pesky Humans - Review and Rules overview

`Tween Comic

I posted an 11 page comic on my DeviantArt site called "Redstorm" featuring the wizard, Ehron Redstorm from my old webcomic `Tween. This was originally featured in my art book Debris.

Growing Up Gamers: Those Pesky Humans!

Growing Up Gamers: Those Pesky Humans!: "by Randy Have at thee, readers! I'm going to start this off by asking, who doesn't have a great memory somewhere of some great wacky dunge..."

Zealots of the Jungle God

A painting I finished up this week. First one of this size I've ever done, to be honest.

I want to do more!