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So yeah, I’ve been busy again — thus the too-long delay between my last post and this one. However, until blogging becomes my main business, I will simply do my best to talk to you, to talk with you,...
View ArticleRecent work updated
YOU WILL FIND a few new pieces in the “Newer Artwork” page of this site. One is that mug you see off to the right here. I had occasion to do a self-portrait for my upcoming print column from Library...
View ArticlePictures Have Stories: M!M!
IN THE COMMENTS to my post about the “Into the Tunnels” artwork, John Massey said he wanted to know more about the cover to Monsters! Monsters!, a picture I painted in the late 70s. I put in on my...
View ArticleYa Oughta Be in Pictures, Kid
NOT SO LONG ago, I had a brainstorm. But before I tell you the time, let me build you the clock. Quite a while back, Patrice Geille commissioned me to do some fresh illustrations for his new French...
View ArticleBy Special Request
I DON’T USUALLY make two posts in one day, but this is a special day. As you know I’ve been doing illustrations for a new edition of Buffalo Castle, the first of the solitaire adventures written for...
View ArticleCard Alteration: Complete
SOMETHING IS GOING on amongst the gamers in Europe. And I like it. Back when I was painting card art regularly, I got asked to sign a lot of cards, particularly Magic and Middle Earth cards. Companies...
View ArticleKrab Jab Art Show and PAX
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION art is not something you often find in a regular art gallery. Despite the love people express for the illustrations in their D&D books, on their Magic cards, or on the...
View ArticleDeluxe Tunnels & Trolls
THOSE WITH YOUR EAR to the rails are already aware that Tunnels & Trolls is in something of a renaissance. The game that my colleagues and I worked on so feverishly out of the Flying Buffalo...
View ArticleThe Archer: Deluxe T&T
I LIKE CHARACTERS and I cannot lie. Whether in artwork or when writing, I’m character-driven in the things I create. I suspect this is part of why RPGs appeal to me the way they do. Being able to...
View ArticleBound for Emerald City
I’m writing this about 4 hours before I need to hop out of bed and catch a plane, so this is going to be brief (and unillustrated). I want to log a couple of those hours with a bit of shuteye. THANK...
View ArticleMy Quirky Relationship
I’VE BEEN DOING a lot of catch-up after being sick for so long. August was still hit-or-miss in the health department, but now — mid-late September — I’m pretty much back to feeling like myself...
View ArticleI’m Back
I’M BACK? AT least, I am coming back. Kinda. For the last of couple years, I have been … let’s just say “preoccupied” … while working to complete Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls. It only took two and a...
View ArticleTen Things You May Not Have Known About Me
I WAS HAVING a groupfest dinner at IlluxCon a few months ago, and found myself in a peculiar but recurring situation. One of the fellows at the table only knew I did Magic cards. One kinda knew I had a...
View ArticleGoing Mobile
TO MY AMAZEMENT (and perhaps to yours) months have not passed since my last update. It’s not even two full weeks! How long can I maintain this frenetic pace?? Only time will tell. The last couple of...
View ArticleLife in Progress: Art and More
YEAAHH…. LONG TIME, no see. Again. Since we last talked, many projects have eaten my brain: artwork for MetaArcade‘s Tunnels & Trolls and story creation app, for GroupSNE (the Japanese translator...
View ArticleIlluxcon IX: A Brain Full of Change
A WEEK AGO, I was at Illuxcon IX in Reading, PA. This week, I am back home in Tucson but my mind, my heart, and whatever passes for my artistic soul lingers behind. No other event is quite like this...
View ArticleGen Con 50, MetaArcade, and Flying Buffalo
AS RECENTLY AS seven weeks ago, I expected not to attend this year’s Gen Con until, on June 23rd, David Reid of MetaArcade asked me to reconsider. These are the folks bringing Tunnels & Trolls...
View ArticleGood Intentions: Retrospective
DORMANT, NOT DEAD: this blog, that is. The simple truth is that I have had another craaazy year. A lot of new art was created, and I did a little more travel than usual, plus a couple of surgeries....
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