Been drawing and reading comics again this past month. I was reminded this morning via the 5 of Pentacles that it’s okay to reach out or at least share. I keep finding reasons for why I shouldn’t pursue a thing.
Trying to think of action “couple” sequences and just coming up with that pair sequence in Jedi Survivor And the beginning of Fury Road after the canyon
✌️Crashing out, gonna buy a cd player Tori Amos cds and some cigarettes
Art of the day
Riccardo Albiero (Italian, b. 1996, Chioggia, Italy) - Quiet the Room, 2025, Paintings: Oil, Watercolor on Board
Dan Butcher, Tony Esmond, and Vince Hunt discuss For the Record on their latest episode of The Awesome Comics Podcast.
Have a listen here: awesomecomics.podbean.com
(The For the Record chat begins around 1hr 47mins).
Trying to get back into the swing of things
Life kinda feels like the first few minutes of children of men.
My comp copy of a new Shade omnibus has arrived, so it must be out soon. It’s mostly Chris Bachalo goodness, but I drew 3 issues too back in 1994(!). Lots of good process stuff too.
I planned a Kickstarter with my comic For the Record, only for it to be rejected. So it's now been listed on my online shop. 48 pages related to my lifelong love of music, Please have a look here:fredeggcomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/for-record-kicks...
Just two days left until SISTER WAKE is released!
If you happen to be in Dublin this Thursday, come to the launch!
If you're not, but you're craving an epic fantasy with;
- anti-colonial themes
- giant monsters with tragic hearts
- Irish myth and history
Then this might be the book for you...
Art of the day
Jong-Taek Woo
So much fiction is ill-disguised auto-fiction (I'm guilty of it myself) so I'm delighted to say, In the Desert is 100% pure imagination.
Out 3-3-2026
i know muji has everything but i didn't know they even have a notepad specifically for thumbnailing covers
"English Garden" by the artist Kevin Hughes.
🖼️ painting titled "Pani od gwiazd" (Lady of the Stars) by Polish artist Monika Szpak.
Reddits been suggesting the r/ is it ai and just
Nancy comic. SLUGGO: Hi, cute snoot -- tune me in --- I'm way out in orbit NANCY: Is this something new?
Testing out your 2026 persona like
Snow flurries #art #oilpainting
Been in the sad lately and started thinking about a quote I heard about the abstract expressionists “after the holocaust and the atom bomb you couldn’t paint the figure without mutilating it”
a drawing of franz kafka’s the metamorphosis, gregor waking up as a beetle, with the words new year new you
reminder that you can replace three (or more) distinct brush sizes with a single one if you do this sort of thing (without the fiddliness and exhaustion of having to carefully maintain three specific ranges of pressures, like you would on brushes that usually have a straight diagonal line in here)
That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
A solid winner for bert in horror A FiG FOR AlL tHe DEvils c.s. fritz
“The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become Death for the next millennium.” Newer book than I usual for the book covers but felt a bit festive. 💀🎄
Got Choir of Flesh in, excited to playing a very disappointed saint.
I'm over the moon to be featured in The Spectral Lines latest issue! My article discusses the Devil's role in Shropshire folklore, and why the folk Devil has such an enduring appeal.This is a stunningly curated zine 💀🕯
thespectrallines.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
#Zine #Folklore #Devil #Folk
#TwinPeaks #CharlieBrown #Snoopy artwork by @schumisnoopy.bsky.social
Cover of 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany,' depicting a seventeenth-century illustration of Stonehenge.
If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!
Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
I wish this had been the video game, omg it was so good
