Thursday, October 10, 2024
DUNE ROLLER
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
OOPS! NOW the store is updated!
Hey folks! Looks like I goofed and forgot to put the "purchase button" on the Commonplace Book Deluxe Edition. It's all fixed now!
I have a store inventory update but most importantly I have Deluxe Editions of my fully illustrated edition of The Commonplace Book!
- Hand signed.
- Hand numbered.
- Includes an original drawing of a monster featured in the book.
- Includes an original monster hand drawn on the inside back cover.
HARBORING MONSTERS
DELUXE EDITION
- Hand signed.
- Hand numbered.
- Includes original drawing of a monster from the book.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
COSMIC TITAN
Above him lay the great black steep that rose to the summit of the monster's humped back, a mountain to be climbed.
Near the crest of the monster's back, he stumbled and fell hands and knees on the shagreen-roughness of the skin.
Unmistakably even in the misty dawn-light, the hills and valleys of the rugose back were changing shape, as the vast protoplasmic mass below crawled, flowed beneath its integument.
Fingers shaking, he unhitched the light ax from his belt and began to hack with feverish industry at the monster's crusted hide.
The scaly, weathered epidermis seemed immeasurably thick. But at last he had chopped through it, reached the softer protoplasm beneath.The slabs of flesh he had cut off were gray and unappetizing, but he knew from the studies he had helped Sutton make that the monsters, extraterrestrial though they were, were in the basic chemistry of proteins, fats and carbohydrates one with man or the amoeba, and therefore might be—food.
The scientists had found, in the burst bodies of the Titans that had been killed by atomic bombs, the answer to the riddle of these creatures' crossing of space: great vacuoles, pockets of gas that in the living animal could be under exceedingly high pressures, and that could be expelled to drive the monster in flight like a reaction engine. Rocket propulsion, of course, was nothing new to zoology; it was developed ages before man, by the squids and by those odd degenerate relatives of the vertebrates that are called tunicates because of their gaudy cellulose-plastic armor....
Robert Abernathy, Strange Exodus
Read Scott's essay about Strange Exodus & The Rotifers here.
ROTIFER
Read Scott's essay about Abernathy's The Rotifers & Strange Exodus here.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
THINKING-TIME-DREAM-THING
"He had only had it for a split second but he remembered it had blind, weepy eyes and was smooth."
"'"And make a thinking-time-dream-thing hold still so's I can get it. So's I'll know. I guess that's all. Hahneeweemahneemo, O Idol of the Flies, you are free to GO!'"
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
STORIES FROM THE BORDERLANDS RETURNS! TOMORROW!
Friday, August 9, 2024
COMMONPLACE BOOK & NECRONOMICON!
Hey everyone! Just an update to say my fully illustrated edition of H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book is out now! AND I'll be at NecronomiCon in a week signing them! I'll have these and a bunch of zines at my Seventh Church Ministries table. I'll be on 2 panels during the con both on Sunday:
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
CREEPER
Scott Nicolay, after
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
NEW BOOK PREORDERS!
I know it's been a while since I posted but it's been a wild time. For the last year or so I've been quietly working on a book. Well I can now reveal what it is and even the cover! I've been working on an illustrated edition of H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book! There are 30 full page illustrations and 11 spot illustrations and I even designed the whole thing!
This also worked out because there was a lot of Lovecraft influence in the early days of D&D. My cover was inspired by supplemental material from that time period, specifically work by Erol Otus.
Now, I've actually illustrated a bunch of creatures mentioned in the Commonplace Book on this blog. But for this project I tried to approach everything with fresh eyes. So in most cases I've completely redesigned things that I'd drawn previously and in some cases I kept the original design but redrew them.
This has been the last year of my artistic life and it's something I'm incredibly proud of. I hope you all grab a copy and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!
Speaking of things I'm proud of, you can still get copies of Monstrous Mythologies at Lethe Press!
Monday, July 31, 2023
SCAB
When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation
Solidarity wins"
Jack London, Ode To A Scab