In my formative years, I borrowed my elementary school’s copies of D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths and Greek Myths so often, that a relative took pity on the librarians & bought me my own copies. Periodically that formative experience bubbles up again (by which I mean constantly). Support libraries!

First Democrat that commits to banishing Trump (and his cabinet), Netanyahu, and Putin to the Phantom Zone gets my vote.

I was at a friend’s house on Halloween, and Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon came Trick-or-Treating with their daughter.

When I was a wee lad of 21, I thought I wanted to be a political cartoonist. I had a weekly strip in the school paper that was so baroque that I genuinely don’t know what I was talking about, when I look back upon them. Anyway, I periodically dip a toe back into political commentary…

I highly recommend the whole Worlds without Master run. Lots of great games, illustrations, comics, and miscellany. Comics and illustrations from Swords without Master RPG art director @portablecity.bsky.social. From Barbarian Lord and Hellboy artist @barbarianlord.bsky.social.

You should totally back this project! It’s got swords! It’s got sorcery! It has cool fantasy art, and fancy dice, and eidolons!

I just backed Swords Without Master on @kickstarter.com And you should too. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

A modest proposal: a few years from now, once the big players are “vacationing” in the Netherlands (btw, we went to The Hague & Delft this summer, & loved it!), everyone who voted for this chud & his lickspittles goes on a peace corps apology tour. Just to see what their political nihilism wrought.

I’m assuming that for Epimas, everyone is following Swords without Master on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw..., and playing something weird. (Like an RPG made from the little placemat games you find in roadside diners.)

A practice illustration for a book project I’m working on. A few years back, I took a road trip around the Pacific Northwest. I was really enamored with the unusual geography of the Oregon coast, which inspired this illustration. All drawn in Affinity Designer on the iPad.

Want to increase consumer spending? Want to boost innovation by untethering healthcare from employment? Want to save tax-payer money? Want to treat people with dignity and compassion? If only there was a way to do all of those things... oh wait, there is. Single-payer health care. masscare.org

Will you be the 666th follower of this kickstarter‽ (I like that my computer autocorrects to an interrobang.) It's a really fun game!

A 9 pm address to the American people? How many souls of dead psykers will it take to keep him from dozing off mid rambling, racist tangent?

I haven’t read this article yet, but I’m assuming it’s a push for single payer healthcare, debt cancellation, and raising the minimum wage.

Is anyone going to Arcanecon in Northampton? There are a bunch of cool games I want to check out—hopefully space is still available!

It’s the Great Joust. Except one guy is definitely riding a chicken. Drawn in three parts, mostly just to make it entirely unwieldy to work on.

Nova Cromlec might be famous for its monsters, but did you know it also has thousands of miles of pristine coastlines, lovely green hills, and charming villages? And monsters. Lots of monsters. Nova Cromlec: coming soon to an inter dimensional portal near you!

Nova Cromlec might be famous for its monsters, but did you know it also has thousands of miles of pristine coastlines, lovely green hills, and charming villages? And monsters. Lots of monsters. Nova Cromlec: coming soon to an inter dimensional portal near you!

Proselytizing is gamefied empathy. (Sorry, I was just thinking about that so-called Christian dude railing against empathy.)

Adobe asked me to fill out a survey on AI tools. I’d urge any graphic artists to make it clear that AI tools are bad for everyone. They’re bad for artists who lose revenue. They’re bad for clients who want images that effectively communicate. And they train an audience to expect visual garbage.

It’s kidlit postcard day! Do you like weird, kinda humorous takes on folklore, fantasy, & whiling away time in offices waiting for the heat death of the universe? Do you think that scarecrows are born, and not made? I’m your guy. This illustration is titled “It’s the Great Eschaton, Charlie Brown”.

A bit of good luck for me! ‘Cause I’ve got a golden compass! A mocked up cover for The Golden Compass, or The Northern Lights, if you’re reading this anywhere but in the US. Drawn in Affinity Designer, as mostly vector.

If you see this, post a DC comics cover you love. I’ll admit, I totally ate up the New Mutants/X-Force hype when it came out. Years later, I found this in a dollar bin. It’s amazing all the way through, including the hyperbolic commentary about the various contributors.

If you see this, post a vampire! It’s vector and raster, with a dash of the supernatural. #kidlit

Signing up for a block of time at the computer lab, and being able to ignore the “No MUD/MOOs!” sign because you knew the student in charge. Or alternately, queuing up in the library to wait for a terminal to read your various rec.arts.comics newsgroups.

It’s #portfolioday apparently. (I bought one of those word-a-day calendars, so I was operating under the impression that it was “crepuscular” day. Which means I’m about 11 hours early, on the East Coast.) Anyway, some recent illustrations… and as always, you can find me at bryantpauljohnson.com

Maybe don’t include obviously AI generated visuals in your high minded LinkedIn posts about the need for ethics in business.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I almost wish I did, just to see the enablers of The World’s Shittiest Theocracy hoist by their own spiritual petards.

For the cost of his big boy birthday parade, he could have rented 150,000 bouncy castles for four hours. That’s 150 bouncy castles each for everyone who showed up!

It’s #kidlipostcard day. You should commission me to draw slyly irreverent versions of classic stories, and/or anything involving weirdos with swords. Represented by Luddington Creative. luddingtoncreative.co.uk

I was running through my small, mostly progressive little town, and saw a pickup truck with a sticker on the back window that read, “If you don’t pray, you will be prey.” (Not surprisingly, accompanied by Christian iconography.) You fuckers are the reason we have a first amendment.

I wasn’t bold enough to be an actual goth, but I did spend a lot of time in my youth combing record shops for gloomy b-sides. Now the gothiest thing about me is the horrifying state of my feet.

Green art! (It turns out, I pretty much only work in three colors: green, blue, and orange. I’m not sure why. (Ironically, my brother actually has a PhD in color science. Good luck trying to convince me that other colors are worthwhile.)

Haunted Pines Summer Camp: come for the arts and crafts, stay for the chthonic evil. And badminton.

I think there's a typo in this headline, Reuters. "UnitedHealth was a reliable earnings performer - until its shocking Thursday results" I fixed it for you: "UnitedHealth leveraged suffering to benefit shareholders. Who would have guessed there would ever be [the faintest whiff of] comeuppance?"

Coracle Rock: AM soft rock, but with more fiddle and fife.

One of those silly ideas that manages to escape my sketch book. Reposted for the morning crowd.

Who am I kidding, there’s no way he’d ever play a board game.

I drew this a few years back. Farewell, Nick Rivers.

Have you ever wondered how many Sliding Doors-style choices it took to divert you from a career as a singing cowboy? Me neither. A self-portrait of me and my trusty steed Malmö. Drawn as vector and raster in Affinity Designer on the iPad.

A self portrait inserted into a scene from a favorite series of books. I’ve read the Lord of the Rings several times over the years (I was given the books in the early ‘80s), and yet I mostly only remember the walking around parts.

Here’s a pointless hill I’ll die on: “unflipped” manga is bad and dumb, and you’re ruining the artwork by explicitly fighting against the visual narrative as designed by the artist. (Not just manga. Any comics designed for a language that reads right to left.)

There’s evil, and then there’s negligent. Silly doodling using fairy tale tropes. Drawn in Affinity Designer. Why is it so much fun to draw layered skirts and ridiculous poofy shoulder pads? And tiny hooded minions?

Any excuse to draw wizards, am I right? All vector for a change.

Sports are for everyone. This pathetic attack on trans people is nothing more than scapegoating an already marginalized population to score cheap political points. If you actually cared about protecting children, you’d fight like hell for gun control, science based health care, & a social safety net

I’m worried about cold and flu season. What’s HHS’s recommendation for when I should start wearing a posset of ivermectin procured from a crone?

So, by executive order, the next president could decree that, hypothetically, Mar-a-Lago’s official name is “Abandoned Sewage Overflow Site,” and Google and Apple would totally go along, right?

I made a fake cover to one of my favorite childhood books, “The Book of Three,” by Lloyd Alexander. I wanted to do a stylized (maybe mid-century modern?) version. Basically, you should totally hire me to draw silly covers for classic fantasy books.

Quote re-post with yer wings. (It turns out, I draw a lot of seagulls. So instead, something more monstrous!) A voluptuous dragon, intricately rendered.

It occurred to me today (why yes, I do live near a college!) that pockets are just built in lanyards in your pants.