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Front cover of Folkish by Kym Deyn
Back cover of Folkish with a commendation by RM
Delighted to receive a physical copy of this fantastic poetry collection by @kymdeyn.bsky.social … a great debut. Go buy! @ninearchespress.bsky.social
new page is up! we're nearing the end of this story!
front cover art for Knock's folklore bestiary, OSR version. it shows a trio of adventurers facing a tentacled monster which coils around the edges of the frame, bristling with eyes and pincers. the adventurers - a hooded rogue, a burly knight, and a short, haunted-looking wizard all group togehter, looking daunted.
ink drawing of a figure stabbed through the back by a sword. the sword is in red ink, the figure in black. the figure has a wizened, anguised face, and wears a shaggy cape and hood made from ragged reeds. they have long-nailed hands moving as if to clutch at the blade run through them.
An illustrated map, bisecting several interwoven grass basket buildings clinging to the side of a tree. Small animals like rodents, shrews and hedgehogs bustle around a busy market and show ground, while larger animals like birds peer in through skylights above. Smaller floral chambers are attached to the main hall, overflowing with wild flowers and each occupied by a colourful pageant competing butterfly.
a page of black and white illustrations showing multiple artefacts and depictions of tombs and burials of many kinds, including a bog body, terracotta warriors, an air burial and an ossuary.
Hi #portfolioday I'm an illustrator maily working in games and narrative art, shedule currently clear so give me a bell if you want some weird monsters or obsessively detailed greenery!
portfolio: toadlett.com
contact: email is in my profile, please don't dm I can't see it cos I'm UK based.
cover of Transparent City by Ondjaki. the cover shows a painting of a tower block in Luanda, Angola, multicoloured and patchy and ramshackle. white text overlaid on the painting of the title and author.
Transparent City by Ondjaki. This book is so funny and human and endearing and then suddenly strange and unsettling, dark and tragic, horrifying and doomed, then devastatingly beautiful again that reading it was a bit like being put in a can and rattled about for 300 odd pages. Incredible.
cover of the book Owlish by Dorothy Tse. the book is coloured a solid ultramarine blue, with text in white of the title, author, and "fitzcarraldo editions"
Owlish by Dorothy Tse. V quick and disturbing read, a surreal, funny, kinda gross story about a middle aged man descending into a fantasy, that has bubbling under it this seething, barbed undercurrent of political repression, authoritarianism and state violence.
Gouache painting of apple blossom
Green mural, leaves and flowers
Digital painting of a marl pit
Drawing of bryony vines
I’ve nowt on get in touch
#portfolioday
ah ty!
aww tysm!
front cover art for Knock's folklore bestiary, OSR version. it shows a trio of adventurers facing a tentacled monster which coils around the edges of the frame, bristling with eyes and pincers. the adventurers - a hooded rogue, a burly knight, and a short, haunted-looking wizard all group togehter, looking daunted.
ink drawing of a figure stabbed through the back by a sword. the sword is in red ink, the figure in black. the figure has a wizened, anguised face, and wears a shaggy cape and hood made from ragged reeds. they have long-nailed hands moving as if to clutch at the blade run through them.
An illustrated map, bisecting several interwoven grass basket buildings clinging to the side of a tree. Small animals like rodents, shrews and hedgehogs bustle around a busy market and show ground, while larger animals like birds peer in through skylights above. Smaller floral chambers are attached to the main hall, overflowing with wild flowers and each occupied by a colourful pageant competing butterfly.
a page of black and white illustrations showing multiple artefacts and depictions of tombs and burials of many kinds, including a bog body, terracotta warriors, an air burial and an ossuary.
Hi #portfolioday I'm an illustrator maily working in games and narrative art, shedule currently clear so give me a bell if you want some weird monsters or obsessively detailed greenery!
portfolio: toadlett.com
contact: email is in my profile, please don't dm I can't see it cos I'm UK based.
For the first time in I think several years I am fully without clientwork! That means if you would like some art for your game, book or other mysterious thing, I can get going rightaway! Drop me an email if you'd like to chat!
Latest page is up! If you felt like getting to read a bunch of weird stories like this, plus free digital copies of all my smaller books, i could really use the support!
I don't mind horses because they are alive and therefore subject to the bendiness of living things, but aye hats and vehicles can fuck off
walnut ink drawing of a museum interior, based loosely on the interior of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Egypt. A large, modern interior with asymetrical walls and bridges crossing the open space at different levels, melding with more archaic architecture featuring ornate columns and pointed archways. in the foreground a huge statue of a human figure stands, the head and shoulders cut off by the frame of the image.
drawing architecture is the worst thing in the world and I have willingly inflicted it upon myself
Two more weeks to get your applications in!
The quality of the work so far has been crazy good 💅
Thank you to the folks who have already donated to increase the Quindrie Comic Fund! The pot has gone from £3,000 to £4,010. If you would like to contribute to the fund, you can find all the information at quindriepress.com/qcfdonations.
The cover of the zine The Booklet of Bounties shows a hooded figure examining a notice board covered in wanted posters.
I've got a box going out today, so unless something goes wrong, you'll be able to buy print copies of The Booklet of Bounties and my other zines from the @uktin.bsky.social stand at Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure on Saturday April 18th.
(Check out that cool cover by @toadlett.bsky.social!)
it's my birthday for another seven minutes, here's a tip jar if you've been enjoying sasquatch diaries.
Alternantively, as times are tough, you can instead focus all your bad mental energy into a guy you hate and maybe the collective effort with do something cool
ko-fi.com/sajanrai
A poster for the Sheffield Comic ARts Fair - a girl with a wooly hat wearing a big purple and yellow scarf gazes at a comic book with hearts in her eyes. Her scarf curls up and round to frame text that confirms the date of the event (10th Oct 2026), that it's Free entry, and the location (Trafalgar Warehouse, S1 4JT).
The final poster for SCARF 2026!
Art by the wonderful Bex Ollerton (@schnumn.bsky.social), "Scarf Girl" designed by Liam Hill.
With huge thanks to @gnrr.bsky.social, SHU Illustration and @averyhill.bsky.social for supporting the event.
10th October 2026, Trafalgar Warehouse, S1 4JT!
book cover of the left hand of darkness by Ursula le guin. the cover is blue, with two sci-fi cities looming out of the blue, and a mountain in the background.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. Just such a clearsighted and engrossing piece of storytelling. for a fairly old representation of weird gender stuff it does an amazing job of gently, compassionately and ruthlessly pulling apart the protagonist's biases.
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted their comic! We're gonna get going reviewing your wonderful submissions, planning to let everyone know by the end of April!
ughghghgh every illustration makes me so excited to play!
a photo of a small comic, with wormy lines drawn around it and a black margin with white text overlaid. text reads: new minicomic! a story about the thing in the well, made in the dark. £5.
Wee shop update, adding my new minicomic, Nangelle Eut! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
a short comic I drew in the dark during new year!
also remember you can get all my work in digital form on my itchio!
toadlett.itch.io
waaaa thank you ell!
Had such a great day yesterday, thank you so much to everyone who came and made Deecon so great! I'll be putting together a wee shop update soon so will pos about that later!
HOLY SHIT HARI THIS SLAPS
headed to #Deecon this morning, anyone who's going I look forward to seeing you there! I have a new comic! I was too busy to do a nice promo post this week so it's a surprise! Please buy it!
this was maybe the best event last year, this year looks ot be even better! time to get your applications in!
god the caption for this on the website fuckin got me
oooooh I am also looking oooooh (the shirt suits you so well hari <3)