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D is for Diakk

You can follow the other “D” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures. Here’s one from the second Monster Manual… …

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Portrait Night 11/1 (Pink Floyd)

It’s a four-fer! (?) Here’s a #PortraitNight drawing of Pink Floyd, taken from the cover of the last MOJO Magazine. I did this at the Winston-Salem Comic & Toy fair weekend before last. Like most red-blooded American males, I had a “Pink Floyd phase” in high school, but these days the only stuff of theirs …

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C is for Catoblepas

Here’s the “C” entry in my Dungeons & Dragons-themed AlphaBeasts series. I love the hilariously-written entry on this creature in the original Monster Manual. It begins with: “This nightmare creature is loathsome beyond description and has no redeeming features.” You can follow the other “C” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by …

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Portrait Night 10/25 (Iggy Pop)

I had fun with tonight’s #PortraitNight. The subject is Iggy Pop, one of my favorite musicians, but instead of one of my usual headshot images, I decided to recreate the back cover of Iggy’s third (and underrated in my opinion) solo album, New Values.  I’ve been listening to that record a lot these days ’cause …

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Illos From An Abandoned Boneshaker Comics Adaptation Pitch

OK, “abandoned” isn’t the most accurate turn of phrase–maybe “on hold for the time being” is better. Anyway… a while back, my then-agent and I were mulling over possible projects to pursue and one possibility that came up was a proposal to adapt an existing book for the great SF/fantasy publisher Tor Books. Looking over …

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