So proud of these two books, and they are so different: a children's book about acceptance and a puzzle-like, visceral horror experience.
I'm working on new stuff (now that I got some time back), but I still think these reflect my best work, and there have been things before and since.
#author
Rhode Island bound again this weekend for The Witch Market (by Tarot Goddess Events).
Two days to shop my and other vendors wares, all of a Gothic and witchy nature. Coffins, prints, books, and stickers.
#TheWitchMarket #TarotGoddess #alternativeconvention
Garden State Anime Fest is about to pop off.
I'm set up in the back of the Richards building, J32.
Art (OA, prints & commissions), books, comics, stickers & coffin art trays.
#GSCF #GardenStateAnimeFest2026 #AnimeConvention
Breakfast at the Carnegie Diner in Manhattan yesterday. Had to go in to help Rachel with some errands and we turned it into a lovely day. Food. A couple of good movies. And unfortunately, lots of traffic.
Everything was delicious here.
#CarnegieDiner #dateday #foodporn
This season of A Kid and a Comic, Chadhiyana faces down a new villain who we've planned to keep around for a while.
Read their first confrontation in Season 3. Something fun is developing for future seasons from this point. All exclusive to the paper.
#AKidandAComic #Chadhiyana #newspapercomic
Another Willow and a Mad Martigan from last week's WhatNot stream.
I'm considering more classic fantasy pieces from my childhood as I balance out the fantasy end of my offerings (that is, balance against the horror stuff).
#WillowArt #WillowUfgood #MadMartigan #traditionalart #artcommissionsopen
Tiny painting. A recent Magic: The Gathering commission I completed.
Would love to do more of these, especially since MTG was so formative on my creative mind. I loved when the card arts were all traditional.
Commissions are open... #artcommissionsopen #MagictheGatheringart #MTGAlter
First time exhibiting at the Garden State Anime Fest, this weekend in the Johto (Richards) Building, table J32!
#AnimeConvention #GardenStateAnimeFest
Guess what sold at the art show?
And it wound up in the art submission on accident today.
These 3D Plague Doctors are hand cut (by Amber Keep Studios; art by me). I typically only have 1 - 3 at any show. Only one remains now at the NJ Punk Rock: Spring Fling!
#NJPunkRockFleaMarket #NJPRFM
Here we go NJ Punk Rock! 🤘
Set up for two days of an incredible show. Plus, go check out my OA for sale in the "Rise Above" Art Show (on site).
#NJPunkRock #NJPunkRockFleaMarket #NJPRFM #NJPRMSpringFling2026
Snapped this pic in the studio space last weekend. Proof that Cyrilla and Lenny can get along...even if for a moment...
#CatPics #catsofinstagram #CyrillatheCat #LennytheCat
(2/2): Find me also on:
instagram.com/jmdwriteist
facebook.com/jmdesantis.w...
(& thank you to the folks at NJPRM for this!)
#NJPunkRock #njpunkrockfleamarket #FOLLOWme
Yoooooooo! I don't want to brag or anything (or maybe I do), but look at who has a spot featured on the landing page of all those NJ Punk Rock Flea Market ads!!!
Hope any of you seeing it give me a FOLLOW & check me out at the show. Dark fantasy prints, stickers, books, comics and my coffin boxes!
A Kid and a Comic isn't the only Chadhiyana story I have cooking. Something new is in-development to act as a preview or intro to the series, with some added worldbuilding I've left out for far too long...
Stay tuned...
#Chadhiyana #darkfantasycomics #swordandsorcerycomics #amwriting
Big news from one of our distributors last night. Philbo Publishing & Distribution will now add a POD service. A big win for indie creators, and an added road to publishing for DFP.
Currently soliciting Wülf Girlz through Philbo with more to come.
#PhilboDistribution #indiepublishing #indiecomics
The HellMask from above...
Started with a Wicked (another Warwick Davis) and then came Dracula, John Carter & Dejah Thoris (my first connected cards) and a...HellMask?!
A really great night of commissions. Always available on WhatNot and otherwise!
#artcommissionsopen #ACEOs #WickedStarWars #DejahThorisArt #TheMaskArt
Two weeks off of shows, and I get a little complacent about posting. But not about New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market! One of my better shows, and it's this weekend!
Who might I see? (And Rachel will be there Saturday only!)
#NJPunkRock #njpunkrockfleamarket #punkrockfleamarket
Cyrilla seems extremely happy that I just changed the sheets this morning. 😹
Had a nice chat with the publisher of A Kid and a Comic a few days ago about Chadhiyana's future seasons in the paper. I wrote 15 pages of notes before pitching the idea.
Too early to say anything, BUT it's possible something special is developing.
#Chadhiyana #AKidandAComic #makingcomics
No one on the stream last weekend knew who this warm up sketch depicted. Do you?
Inked sketchcard
#Willow #WillowUfgood #WillowArt #MysteryArt
Another volume of Chadhiyana stories completed.
In just three months I've written more words than all of last year and the year before. A few adjustments and a few less shows was all it took.
(Gnarly journal spine courtesy of Cyrilla...)
#Chadhiyana #amwriting #TheGirlwiththeFireRingedEyes
You too, Bob!
This is it, everyone: the last 40 or so hours to get my variant cover for Lycan: Solomon's Odyssey Chapters 4: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wor...
Already fully funded. Grab the trade, choose my cover!
#LycanSolomonsOdyssey #variantcover #indiecomics #werewolfcomic
A creation by Rachel & I: The Deconstructed Waffle™! An exclusive breakfast item only for the most discerning dinner.
(Or, we effed up the first one. Third picture shows we actually know how to make waffles.)
#MakingWaffles #Waffles #foodporn #DeconstructedWaffle
This is literally happening right now while I'm trying to ink. She's so precious and sweet...
Still my little kitten at 6 years old.
#CyrillatheCat #catpics #catowner #catsofbluesky
A new headshot I created for Chadhiyana, both for reference and as requested by John at A Kid and A Comic.
I used a smidge of references to at least give her an accurate facial structure to the way I envision her.
#Chadhiyana #TheGirlwiththeFireRingedEyes #AKidandAComic #ComicOC #fantasycomic
Put a little more into that warm-up sketch of Warwick Davis's Leprechaun (a post-St. Patrick's Day whim). And got to do a Knull, God of the Symbiotes! Fun design.
Commissions are some of my favourite work.
#WhatNotartist #commissionsopen #artcommissionsopen #Leprechaunart #Knullart
From the introductory page of Wülf Girlz, by Robert J. Sodaro and various artists.
A one-shot comic tie-in to the Wülf Girlz novella, Taste the Moon. Both available on darkfirepress.com
#WülfGirlz #werewolfcomics #werewolffiction #wolfgirls #indiepublishing
Lots of werewolves on my end lately: publishing, art-wise, and maybe story developments?
This was a commission. Not sure it fit the "sexy werewolf girl" theme, but I think of were-creatures beastial rather than sensual anyway.
Inks & watercolours
#werewolfart #werewolfgirl #furryart #sexywerewolf