Plenty of time to head to the bookstore for gifts! I mean, giving ANY book is the best idea!

Dive in and follow the little lights!

The way is NOT shut! Pre-Order now!

Perfect for the Macabre Literature Lovers in your life!

Happy No Kings Day!

Forth, Pre-Orderlingas! Oaths you have taken!

Pre-Orderssssss are open, Preciousssss! Available where you get your books, and remember to support your local bookshop!

Big news! My Inktober 2024 Tolkien/Gorey mash up is gonna be a book! Pre-order links coming soon! Gah!

Wizard Wednesday! I think it helps explain people’s questions about “why didn’t they just use the Eagles” if you think of them as pissed off New Yorkers. #tolkien #comics #webcomic #eagles #glorfindel

Wizard Wednesday! Look, the Eagles are very busy. Don’t expect them to solve all your problems. #tolkien #comics #webcomic #wizard #eagle #glorfindel

My Fantasy Collection is reopen for new orders! #smallbusiness #stainedglass #stainedglassart #fantasyart #lotrart

Wizard Wednesday! A brief interlude at Barad-Dûr continues. I suspect we will be back here in the future. Loving these guys too much! Let me know if you’re enjoying these comedic Sauron/Mouth Adventures!

Wizard Wednesday! A couple months ago, I did a comic of Sauron struggling to write the perfect thing to engrave into the One Ring. Recently I did a live reading for charity of the “Mouth of Sauron” scene in “Return of the King” one of my favorites. Toss in a little “Blackadder” and this came out!

Wizard Wednesday! Everyone has a special talent!

All I want from the upcoming baseball season is either a World Series win for the Diamondbacks or the Mets, or that the Dodgers fail to even make the playoffs. Any of those would make it one of the best sports years ever.

Thank goodness we finally have a president willing to stand up against Big Paper Straw and the terrible scourge of trying to protect the environment!

Wizard Wednesday! Even Sauron would fear the power of pastry!

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Art share! What a cool idea. I hope to do a comic a week as best I can and draw more in general! Your turn! Tagging: @rickschmitz.bsky.social @lucasturnbloom.bsky.social @thistlemoon.bsky.social

Wizard Wednesday! Apologies in advance to the Glorfindel fans! I love him but couldn’t resist the comedy!

F*CK BILLIONAIRES, my graphic novel (in the works for 2 years) is now LIVE on Kickstarter!! Link in the attached post AND in my bio. Please help me spread the word (reposts appreciated & NEEDED!)

Glorfindel arrives in Middle Earth in the Second Age, and he looks marvelous!

Best lead off hitter ever, gone way too soon. RIP Rickey.

Let’s see…continue the soul crushing activity of looking for a senior level video/graphic design job or any job at this point, or smear honey all over myself and walk into a pack of starving bears. Hmmmm. Gimme a second.

Saw this go by and, well….yeah. Let’s go, Team Cockroach!

The boys are enjoying vacation. Hope you are too!

What is this “leftover stuffing” I hear about after Thanksgiving? You’re telling me people have some LEFT? What madness is this?

I guarantee the NFL “Baltimore Kravens” spot for the upcoming “Kraven the Hunter” movie is better than the film is going to be. I take no joy in this.

These are the kinds of things that go thru an idiot cartoonist’s mind at 2am.

I had a blast doing Inktober, but it took all my time and now my comic buffer is gone! Mori and Róm will return on January 1st!

It’s a good thing Ripley is there to guard the family van as I put gas in it. There are so many interlopers and fiends who DARE to come within 100 feet of us minding their own business. The audacity!

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Indeed, we have come now to the end! A twofer with Gandalf the Grey and the balrog upon the peak of Zirakzigil. The response to these has exceeded my wildest dreams and has inspired me to seek publishing options. Thank you all for sharing these!

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! This scene and the one after always destroys me in the movies. The late Bernard Hill’s performance as a grieving father is among the best in the trilogy. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing #theoden #lordoftherings

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! The one letter that I had to stretch to get! But, I think this is the most “Goreyesque” of them all. That “moment before the disaster” feel, and no motion lines ever, like a high shutter speed photo! Plus, Gimli’s axe is fun to draw! #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! An iconic moment, to be sure! Poor Witch King…he needed to be more observant! #tolkien #edwardgorey #lordoftherings #nazgul #eowyn #meriadocbrandybuck #gashlycrumbtinies

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Time to break the hearts of people who didn’t realize the skeleton holding the book at Balin’s Tomb in the Mines of Moria was Ori, the sweet youngish dwarf from The Hobbit. A true fellow bookworm to the end! #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #comics #minesofmoria

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Ungoliant, destroyer of the two Trees of Valinor, mother of Shelob, brought down only by her need to consume everything, even herself! #tolkien #edwardgorey #shelob #lordoftherings #ungoliant #ink #inktober

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Poor Túrin Turambar; it was just one thing after another for him, ending up impaling himself on an evil sword. But legend has it he’ll be back to one day deliver the killing blow to Morgoth! #inktober #edwardgorey #tolkien #ink #lordoftherings #turinturambar

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Saruman is eventually betrayed by Gríma Wormtongue, and Saruman’s immortal spirit tries to head West, but is rejected and his essence scattered away. A fitting but really moving ending to a once great wizard.

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Théoden King always one of my favorite characters in the books and the movies (Thank you, Bernard Hill). #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Poor Númenor…sometimes beach front property isn’t the best. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing #numenor #ringsofpower

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! One of my favorite things about the books is the appendices where Tolkien talks about many things including what happened to characters after the main story. The lives of the hobbits and their eventual fates, like Pippin and Merry, was a personal favorite.

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! I really enjoyed how “The Rings of Power” started to give a glimpse into the Orcs. There’s a real sadness behind their origins and history. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #inkdrawing #orcs

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! A deep dive into the Legendarium of Tolkien! The Elf-maid Nimrodel, River-dweller, true spirit of nature. The waters of the river that bears her name by the Misty Mountains are said to have healing powers. Another evocative image from the Professor.

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Morgoth, the original “big bad” in Tolkien lore, is eventually slain in The Last Battle by Túrin, the man he cursed, but the image of him plotting and stewing in the Void was so striking to me. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #gashlycrumbtinies #inkdrawing #morgoth

Bonus Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkien! This was my original drawing for “J,” as there are NO Tolkien characters that start with J! So I had to fudge it a little. I’m so glad I came up with the other one about “J. R. R.” because it’s much better thematically. But I DO love this drawing, gotta say!

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Ahh, Gimli, the only dwarf ever allowed passage to the Undying Lands! The friendship of these two was one of my favorite things about the books. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #inktober #inkdrawing #legolas #gimli

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Valiant Kili defends his cousin! #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing #thehobbit #kili #thorin

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Fun fact: there are NO Tolkien characters that begin with “J!” I came up with a different one than this at first (which I’ll post later ‘cause I’m proud of the drawing) but just the other day I thought of this “J” character, and, well, it was perfect.