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THE BATTLE FOR BRÜTTELBURG

For 2024 I’m working on our most elaborate project to date: DUNGEON DEGENERATES: the Battle for Brüttelburg! Doing pixel art with my right hand suits me very well for where I’m at these days & it’s been really fun to work on my usual intense visuals, knowing that they’ll be accompani...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year! 2024 is the year of the Dragon & the 25th anniversary of GOBLINKO! It’s gonna be a whopper, I can tell!

HELLSHIRE ZINE

I‘m currently working on the Hellshire Beer Zine which coincides with the 13th installment of the beer! Dan Russo of Oakshire talks about each beer & I talk about each label, there’s a talk between me & founder Jeff Althouse, barrels, hell & more! Coming in early 2024!

THE BATTLE FOR BRÜTTELBURG

Here’s a graphic for the Battle For Brüttelburg, Coming to Kickstarter this spring! The general concept for this one is to do a beat ‘em up with heavy RPG elements, like a fantasy River City Ransom! This is only the first game planned - I can already tell that this medium is almost perfect f...

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THE BATTLE FOR BRÜTTELBURG

I’m working on the first DUNGEON DEGENERATES video game, “the Battle for Brüttelburg”. It’s really fun to expand & refine the fortress city! The game is designed as a beat ‘em up with heavy RPG elements in 8 bit style! It should be coming to Kickstarter this Spring!

DECADENCE

The poster painting for my “Decadence” solo show in Eugene in 2010 - that show was great, maybe the best art show I’ve ever had! I’m amazed at how many irresponsible images I’m using in one piece, I must have really enjoyed taking arrows before everyone got into the act! This was before...

DIE WÜRST FABRIK

A little sneak peak at how the video game is coming along - the character is a place holder until I’ve got an animated character ready!

L’OCCULT

I’ve always been trying to find the root system of visuals, something more complicated than Hieroglyphics, but not too different in terms of use. I’ve found similar ideas over time & this piece (from 2005 or so) documents this. I’m still trying!

ARISE

I remember working on this piece at the Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts in Eugene. I taught art classes there, even though I have plenty of issues with Hippies, I’ve also worked very closely among them my whole life! I’m not sure what that means, but it’s real. Hippies have giv...

GRINDER

An old piece I did when we first moved to Eugene, I had a show at the Morning Glory Café right by the train station. A lot of my work features a distorted view of Hippie Anarchist culture, which I am part of & push back on simultaneously. I was probably vegetarian at the time, but philosophi...

DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS

I am in discussions for licensing Dungeon Degenerates for use with the Dungeon Crawl Classics system.

GOBLIN MIT WÜRST

One of my favorite drawings, “Goblin Mit Würst”. I feel like the nastiness of Goblins has to be visceral, the filth, the rot, the smell. That’s one of the central things I disliked about discovering Goblincore - it’s too nice! You can tell it was created by people who love Garry Potter. ...

GOBLINS

I’m planning a Goblin Box for Dungeon Degenerates, where you’ll be able to play as Goblins & there will be a new Goblin campaign & everything that is small & nasty.

IDEAS

HELLSHIRE ZINE

I'm working on the Hellshire zine for Oakshire Brewery, it's looking good so far! I'm stoked to do this project!

MORE BEER

The bottling area of the Brüttelbrau Brewing Company level, for the first @dungeondegenerates video game: “the Battle for Brüttelburg” I’m having a ball doing pixelated taxidermy. Hopefully we’ll be running a Kickstarter for this in the Spring. The more free time i have the more time I ...

PICK A CARD

A mock up for the back of the Goblin’s Rules of the Game cards that are coming out at some point next year! The pervert in me likes that the Star of David means the same as a swastika to so many people right now. Is ignorance bliss?

YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY

An old PORK promotional graphic, a huge part of the magazine’s culture was Dimestore culture, which I was fortunate enough to experience the tail end of! You could still experience raw, cheap Americana like that until about 1987. It still exists in some rarefied quarters.

GROOBLER

Part of the GURPERS series that I did for my brother Danny for his first album - I did like fifty of them! Anyhow, I wanna use these characters for an eventual Weirdo themed video games!

LANDFILL RESCUE UNIT

I did this ad for Landfill Rescue Unit back in PORK #5! I was still very fueled by Big Daddy Roth at that point - I wanna do a Weirdo themed video game at some point!

THE SIXTH CIRCLE

For PORK 5, I did a series of bad joke one panel comics in the vein of these old Post War comics magazines with Shitty jokes & Shitty drawings that I’d buy at Estate sales - 1000 jokes & the like… one of the many influences of PORK, especially in the early days!

BAD IDEAS

From PORK 4 - it’s funny, I had no problem labeling the writing in PORK “bad ideas” because it was obvious hyperbole! Nowadays people are so ready to think narrowly that this kind of hyperbole seems counterproductive, because the situation is worse or even normalized. Anyhyow, also since th...

THE THING BELOW

Another pre Dungeon Degenerates piece that I did to capture the feeling of early role playing, this one also evokes Lovecraftian Horror.

HELLSHIRE XIII

Here is a sneak peek of the latest Hellshire release, due out in March. I’ve been doing labels for this beer since 2011, right after my neighbor in Eugene: Jeff Althouse started his beer company: Oakshire. We’re doing a zine to celebrate the 13th in the series, which I am doing most of the wo...

NON

I drew a lot of comics from 2000-2008 or so, but I got tired of traditional narrative & sequential structure, I started doing wordless & non narrative comics in 2005 - partially from reading Scott McCloud‘s “Understanding Comics” which I hated. It was useful for me to have something...

WEIRDO CLUB

I used to get real rigid & defined with my art & feel like I had to make new systems to jump into - i don’t have the energy for that anymore & also I don’t feel the need to do that. Weirdo Club was one of these systems, I used it off & on.

PORK 29

Here’s the cover for PORK 29, that would be the final issue of the magazine! The image is of the 10 of Swords, & was titled “Rock Bottom”. Although I wasn’t feeling rock bottom at all at this point! To think that Rock Bottom could even be considered in 2018, compared to now! It’s im...

FATHER FUNGUS

Here’s the third Father Fungus I did in 1996 - the idea was that he was like Johnny Appleseed, spreading spores throughout the land - this was well before I went to my first mycological festival with Katie & was introduced to actual mushroom people!

THE DEVIL

The Devil card from the Tarot Goblinko. My relationship with the Devil is complicated, I like the Devil as a trickster character that leads man to folly, I like the Devil as an excuse, as a scapegoat, etc. Do I think this character exists or is responsible for the evil in the world? Not at all - ...