Hot take:
If you went and got the one piece bento box from popeyes and are scalping it for 200 DOLLARS you should slip on a banana peel and explode aquateen stlye

Pen drawing of a femme rogue balancing a dagger on her finger

Pencil drawing of a flying wooden boat with a bolted on apparatus

Pencil drawing of a bird in a rocker that says big zoomer

Pencil illustration of a squat little robot

Cards!

#aceo #slingertokens #artcards

I gotta draw them cause they're also the official city mascot appearing in the flag and their dollar

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A couple of other things about Beetle's Bauble
- it's nestled in what is commonly called Badlands, where large amounts of dangerous wild monsters roam and weathers' crazy and magically charged
- its a coastal city used as the base for the international coalition the Kraken Defense Force

The setting is a hodgepodge of 1920s-1930s and the city is described as fantasy art deco Mexico/Philippines were everyone is from somewhere else

Of all the factions and conquerors that placed their stake on it. The wizard is long dead, but the city continues to grow, sometime painfully sometimes with class, but it continues on. Beetles Bauble the city of small innovations.

These rest is history as the town builds around the tiny tower and then expands to a city which becomes conquered and colonized by almost every empire and kingdom exchanging hands of rule like the seasons. After a time the city eventually becomes self ruling and becomes a city state independent...

And in the rubble is a miniature replica tower and from it emerges a stag beetle holding a glass Bauble that was the wizards pseudo phylactery in its pinchers. Turns out the wizard has been now living their life as a stag beetle and continued their magical studies in a much smaller scale...

The main setting of a comic and a ttrpg I'm working on is a city called Beetle's Bauble. It's named that because it was "founded" by a renegade wizard whose tower got destroyed in a hurricane along with the wizard. A couple of decades later an adventuring party finds the destroyed tower...

Oh man I would've loved to see this movie on the big screen and have the energy of the crowd

Just saw Hundreds of Beavers last night and I can safely say the praise this movie has gotten from people and the glowing recommendations from friends is well earned imo.

Just great goofs and super charming from start to end

For real, like there's such a buffet of good stuff out and imo Sung Jinwoo is the least interesting thing about Solo Leveling. I actually think the world is neat with modern governments having to deal with dungeons and now heroes and it's just used as set dressing to say "look how cool Jinwoo is~"

I get mad seeing Solo Leveling being in the nominated category AGAIN when we have absolute great stuff like Frieren and JK and Apothecary. It's fine and the fight animation is gorgeous, but like there really really good stuff out there that I feel like gloss over cause it's not easy shonen or isekai

Ink illustration of an alien in a UFO beam holding a raygun

A pencil drawing of a cycloptic worm creature

Pencil drawing of a monster wearing a suit and vest. It's head is angular and is mostly teeth

Pencil illustration of a pile of sludge holding a martini glass wearing a top hat. The top hat says professional

More from the archives!
#aceo #slingertokens #artcard

Illustration of a scaly claw with a switch blade busting out of an easter egg

An illustration of a carrot them,ed knight riding a top a giant marshmallow peep

An illustration of a white rabbit in a little flower clearing brandishing a sword and knife

Happy Spring y'all! I made a set of free tokens you can grab for free at my Patreon!

For 5$ you can get access to 3 additional secret tokens in the set!
#slingertoken

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A pencil drawing of an armored little guy with a big claw

A pencil drawing of a ghost with a sword holding up one hand like a hand of glory

A pencil drawing of a little guy with a space looking helmet and a ray gun

Pencil drawing of a mushroom man riding in a beat up looking drilling vehicle

A slew of little guys

#aceo #slingertokens #artcard

Whiteout: A Nick Ventner Adventure (The Nick Ventner Adventures Book 1) Whiteout: A Nick Ventner Adventure (The Nick Ventner Adventures Book 1) - Kindle edition by Macaulay, Ashton. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Whiteout: A Nick Ventner Adventure (The Nick Ventner Adventures Book 1).

Yetis, wargs, and a whole lot of whiskey. Whiteout is on sale for $6.99 right now on Kindle, or free in Kindle Unlimited. It's a great time to jump into the adventures with a new book coming at the end of the year!

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#BookSky #BookSale

A screen shot of looks from a ttrpg I am developing Anomalnaught Looks Travelling in a pseudoscape is weird and requires unconventional things that make you visible to others in the party. It is proven that the more perceptible you are in a pseudoscape the higher the chance there is of returning home safely Strings of battery operated string lights around your person, a jacket dipped in glow in the dark paint, bands of high vis reflective material, smattering of neon colored clothes A chest rig of multiple camera mounts for sports recorders and smartphones, a bandolier of necklaces and charms from various denominations, a loud antique or vintage dramatic coat, patches held on with safety pins of sigils and powerful symbols A modified motorcycle or safety helmet with light up outlines, homemade big full head enclosing paper mache mask, obnoxiously big brimmed hat, mascot or fursuit head

If you're gonna go up against the high strangeness and weirdness of a pseudoscape, you gotta dress the part.

#ttrpg #wip

I absolutely love this movie and the incredible alley fight scene

Another sneak peak of a new zine I'm working on!

BW ink illustration of a glade in the middle of a forest, a figure sits in front of a fire, towering above them is a single pillar, or column, or fragment of architecture from a bygone era.

You pass the treeline and are welcomed to a sudden glade. The sky, already in the throws of the darkening blues past twilight, is speckled with the bright orange sparks of a fire. A figure in repose stares intently at a fragment of antiquity, a silent pylon from a bygone era...
#ttrpg

I would love to participate if there is space! If not in game submission I would love to be on the list to provide artwork!

An ink illustration of a cycloptic alien fish hovering in the air

A pencil drawing of a warrior in a weird full body suit drawing a sword while an armed monster emerges from the mist

Pencil illustration of a triangular be tentacled monster

Pencil illustration of a squat bird like monster holding a big iron mace

So it seems like my token batches didn't actually post and I've realized now I'm behind again! Blast! Let's change that

#aceo #slingertokens #artcard

Picture of a parcel wrapped in green paper with a green wax seal bearing the image of a dragon

The contents of the package is a novel with a giant pill bug like creature surrounded by monstrous meat beasts. Reads; GRAFT and the authors name at the bottom Madeleine Marie-Rose

I've been so busy lately, but I'm so excited to show this off! Thank you @monstersandmaidens.bsky.social for sending me such a lovely package! I loved illustrating this cover!

A problem I think I run into with making mechanics for games Is I make some, write up a couple dozen pages, take a break and make a new game and come up with mechanics that feel better and think - would this be better in the previous game?

Check out this blog post by @macashton.bsky.social whom I am working with to illustrate the cover of their novel Whiteout! You can see a lil of the behind the scenes of my process of working with someone to make an illustration!

Ink illustration of a pair of eyes staring out of the shadow of a bunch of leaves

Who dat?
#ttrpg

Ink illustration of a signpost with an eye drawn in it. A knife is thrown right into the pupil

Brewing up something #ttrpg

Temba! His arms wide!

Picture of me, a white guy with a shaved head, glasses, and trim beard/moustache combo. I have a big goofy smile holding up a Ninja Turtle Ice Cream and wearing a blue short-sleeved button-up shirt with lemons on it

Cover for Shuffle, an original graphic novel written by JD Boucher (Me), illustrated by George Kambadais, and lettered by Jodie Troutman (@longtalljodie.com on Bluesky) The cover features the Shuffle, a superhero with green tech-based armor flying over a city scape.

Hell everyone! My name is JD and I am a comic book writer, Media/Communication Scholar, and a big ole fan of Comics, music (especially metal) and games (video, table top, tcg and role-playing).

My main gig at a refugee non-profit keeps me super busy, but be on the lookout for cool stuff in 2025!