#WritingSky You are, alas, stuck with me talking book-stuff for awhile here. 5 months to Book Birthday...and a solid 8 years since my last novel was out. If you can't stand some self-promotional bookstuff as I step back on the publishing merry-go-round, turn away and look at the reposted art.

A few of my favorite spreads from Menagerie of Unbearable Things, a horrible bestiary of tragedy with adventure hooks and no stats. You will not find how to kill these creatures among its pages. This is a book about how they loved. And love is the real monster. thebreadwyrm.com/products/men...

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

PAID TTRPG editor work. Looking for a copy editor who is familiar with the 5e style guide. Looking to hire someone from the global south, if possible. 60,000 words total. Share and tag editor friends.

Want to express my gratitude and appreciation to the folks at @darkhorse.com, to Mike Richardson (instrumental to my career at DHC for three decades) and esp @danielchabon.bsky.social for proposing the Nerd Inferno collection, seeing it through and having my back on Beasts of Burden/Blackwood. #thx

ONE WEEK! THE ELTINGVILLE CLUB is back in print! MILK & CHEESE is back in print! DORK is back in print! In one big, bad clusterfuckathon 648-page omnibus of comics that have won 5 Eisner Awards, Two Harveys and an Ignatz. NERD INFERNO! pub @darkhorse.com It's real! It's $35! Beware! Prepare!

Listening to the cosmotechnobabble coverage of the crew of Artemis II landing made me realize how many electronic artists have been waiting over 50 years for these new audio samples.

"No Baroque Boys (after Artemisia Gentileschi's Jael and Sisera)" done in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe on an iBook G3 using an Apple Pro Mouse from 2000.

I mean they DID, just not by that name and not in male-dominated spaces, so. You know.

Happy Birthday Toshiro Mifune! Your movies got me through lockdown and I drew you a LOT

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!!! Joy is powerful! joy is radical! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

After six years, this little guy is still my most popular print at conventions. medium: Photoshop

If you've never seen the intro to Dirty Pair: Project Eden, you may be surprised to discover that it's one of the most beautiful things ever animated.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Little cosmic tech Rogue Trader Space Marine, ya know, just for fun.

Missed your first chance to join the Company? Never fear, you’ve still got a day. ⚔️ Grab your group, roll some dice in the grim dark world of The Black Company, then come fill out the survey. Your feedback might save the soldier next to you… or doom them to the Lady. Either way...play the game. 🎲

We have to be doing this training nationwide. Every city, every town, everywhere. They will pull out of MN now that they got the blood and chaos they wanted and move onto the next target. We have to be prepared to resist and document. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

brother gregor's fish dumplings now in color

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Do it

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Shadowrun Tribute

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

Gender affirming care saves lives.

2025 marks our 20th year in business! In that time we've made a ton of games -- this isn't all of them by a long shot! We're deeply grateful to all the fans who've supported us. To celebrate, save 20% off every single thing in our webstore, now through December 12th. evilhat.com/roleplaying-...

"A mountain walked or stumbled." Wanted to finally do an interpretation of Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu!

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller December 16,1938

Today's the day! Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes is OUT. Written by me! Drawn by me! Colored by me! Lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Logo by @dylantodd.bsky.social

Per R.J. Gillis on Mastodon (dice.camp/@rj), the New York City government released a #DnD one-shot designed to teach ethics rules to city employees. 😄

Little Mistria things I like #drawtober #fieldsofMistria

NERD INFERNO IS COMING! LOCK YOUR DOORS! BOLT YOUR WINDOWS! AND PREORDER THE FUCK OUT OF IT! 4/21/26 From @darkhorse.com Read about it on The Comics Beat here: tinyurl.com/3yj9zvdw

Wrote for the Appendix N blog bandwagon about how my brain got to be the way it is and how Ursula K. Le Guin came to be the chief architect of my mind palace: 1999ad.blogspot.com/2025/09/appe...

STORMBRINGER (1977) Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20" I remember trying to get in the mood of painting for the last time the albino sorcerer king, Elric. I took a clothes rail out of a closet for my sword and ran around outside slashing at weeds and lunging at the breeze. 1/5

Oh HELL yes

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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It's Monday, works boring and I know you're probably thinking, damn, I wish I could buy a cool magazine about tabletop games today that will then be delivered in September as a little treat to future me... Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo! shop.wyrd.science

New issue of Wyrd Science up for order/subscription! This is the first one post-KS so you need to re-up if you got them through that.

So DRAW STEEL is out today, and I wanna thank a bunch of people who made it happen. I gotta start with the folks on my team every day who showed up with incredible passion and dedication @thewillyboo.bsky.social and @djordi.bsky.social. They are HEROES. drawsteel.com

Mythic Bastionland is now up for general sale. Order directly from Bastionland Press (now including Canada): bastionlandpress.com/collections/... Or for those in the US and Central/South America, please go to: plusoneexp.com/collections/...

rolling up to the Olive Garden like

“Nobody loved the library more than Dan.” A meticulous list kept by Dan Pelzer from 1962-2025, cataloging all the books he borrowed and read from the Columbus Metropolitan Library, shared by his daughter. I could not could not love this more. Dan's book list (all 109 pages) at what-dan-read.com

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

You probably know how languages in D&D work: pretty much everyone speaks “Common” but there are also a smattering of languages different ethnic groups speak like Elvish and Dwarven. For this to make sense, it tells us something about the implied setting of D&D #ttrpg #osr #dnd

We are LIVE NOW with RATCATCHER MAGAZINE: ISSUE 01 for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's DRAW STEEL. Mimics, dryads, living traps, map advice, and more! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Link & #Zelda from the Choose Your Own Adventure Gamebook, Battle of Mirage Castle, 1986. #ゼルダの伝説 蜃気楼城の戦い. Illustrations by Yūko Tanaka. You play as both characters! Full Scans (It's still untranslated!) archive.org/details/zeld... Story: zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Leg...

This is one the last projects I worked on at DnD and it's just oozing with fun Eddie-isms and 80's nostalgia. Couldn't be prouder of this product and all the brilliant minds behind it.