June 30, 2022
War is Hell for an elf alone, but Rionah has found an unexpected friend. RIONAH is an alternate history WWII story with dieselpunk elements and mythical creatures. I wrote and illustrated RIONAH simultaneously in two formats. It is a standard comic, available HERE at storyattic.com, and it is also a vertical Scrollon®. The vertical scrolling
April 5, 2022
Sir Tiro sought to distinguish himself by slaying a dragon, but he had no idea where or when it would take him.
January 3, 2022
In 2021 I appreciated Frank Frazetta and Heinrich Kley‘s impact on my work. I wrote about meeting Frazetta, but more should be said about Kley. His work’s vibrancy, especially his animal drawings, significantly influenced Walt Disney. Early in my career, one of the older Disney artists (it might have been Blaine Gibson) told me that
November 16, 2021
Take time to appreciate the small but extraordinary things that happen around you every day.
October 31, 2021
The Headless Horseman “On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure on his fellow-traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving that he was headless!” Washington Irving, 1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
September 2, 2021
By Doug Lefler Bryn was gone for more than a week. “King Edryd wants me to perform for him?” the young man asked the emissary. They were standing to the side of the raised platform that served as a stage. The crowds were dispersing, but the clapping and shouting from the audience still reverberated in
August 27, 2021
By Doug Lefler Bryn Oakkart was listening to the music of the stream at the center of Whispering Hollow when he saw her for the first time. Her eyes were so attentive and her smile so mysterious that he forgave her for not being human. At the age of sixteen, Bryn had fallen in love.
January 23, 2020
I did this drawing for J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday. Tolkien was one of my biggest influences when I was a teenagers.
January 20, 2020
Sometimes I like to work with a limited palette. This is mostly warm and cool grays.
January 16, 2020