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As a teenager in the ’90s

As a teenager in the ’90s, I read Frank Miller and Geof Darrow’s Hard Boiled.

That image of a guy’s head being hollowed out by a punch stuck with me. When I had a similar scene in my debut novel, ‘The Black Seas of Infinity“, that scene instantly popped into my head. Using Mike and Paul as references, with Mike holding aloft my M1 Garand, I researched South American guerillas and drew this illustration.

Indis Ink on Bristol board, 11″ by 17″.

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Mexican guerillas try to kill the wrong person

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Podcast with indie creator Cody Goodfellow

New novel by Cody Goodfellow

Podcast with indie creator Cody Goodfellow. The actor, director, writer, and editor of the resurrected Heavy Metal magazine discusses everything with me from mainstream publishers to his current projects! See all his latest work on his website 

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Police Brutality in effect

Police Brutality in effect.

In the apocalypse, local police take it on themselves to execute whomever they choose.

Going through high school in Fairfax, VA in the late 80s, the police constantly harassed me and my fellow punk rockers.

Made-up charges, jail time, and community service, all par for the course.

In my novel, The End of The World, society falls apart, and the police randomly execute whomever they choose.

India ink on Bristol board, 11″ by 17″.

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Horror story Oh The Horror…The Horror

For my horror story Oh The Horror…The Horror,  based around Loch Ness, I wanted to delve into the details to portray it as realistically as possible.
on my first trip to Scotland, I took a bus ride up into the highlands and crossed Loch Ness.
The ruins pictured are the remnants of yet another castle ransacked by the British!
Unfortunately, I didn’t see Nessie but I envisioned it as an otherworldly monster in my story!
India ink on bristold board, 11″ by 17″.
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A tourist to the famous Loche Ness brings to life an ancient monster

 

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Space! Wormholes! Alien invasions!

Space! Wormholes! Alien invasions!
As a bonafide science nerd, my girl always tells me that at least, I took all sorts of advanced classes in mathematics and physics, focusing on concepts like the relationship of time and gravity, string theory, wormholes, and black holes.
Then I read Lovecraft in 1990, and all bets were off!
This is one of the illustrations I did for my cosmic horror novel The Black Seas of Infinity.

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A mothership, bolstered by fighters, sends a research vessel into a wormhole.

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Buried in the Woods

When I was 16 and living in white trash Northern Florida, I had a best friend named Kevin who lived in a trailer with his single mom. it was buried in the woods, on her uncle’s 10 feet of property. We’d watch horror movies there, climb on the roof to smoke cigarettes, and raid the fridge for her beer.

I always imagined, what if the woods hosted extra-dimensional, Lovecraftian creatures?

With that in mind, I illustrated this for “Dr.Seuss is Dead” in my collection of short stories “Down Highways in the Dark..by Demons Driven’.

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The dangers of isolated woods come to life!

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Government conspiracies! UFOs! The fall of the US!

Government conspiracies! UFOs! The fall of the US! I read Watchmen in 1986 (on my 45-minute bus ride to school) and decided I wanted to be a comic artist. I always wanted to be an artist or writer, and this convinced me I could do both.This illustration was part of the graphic novel proposal I made to DC Comics in 1998.They only wanted superhero at the time (they were about to go bankrupt), not a complex, cosmic horror tale that spanned 10+ issues!It was a blessing and a curse. I was super disappointed at the time, but now my rights and am 3 novels and 2 anthologies into my heavily illustrated cosmic horror series,join my email list if you want to get notified when I release new work!

The first drawing for my heavily illustrated novel The Black Seas of Infinity.

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Illustrations for Tommy Clark’s contribution “DEDWADOÑT” and my story “Washington, DC.”

I finished the illustrations for Tommy Clark’s contribution “DEDWADOÑT” and my story “Washington, DC.” Both will be in my new anthology, The Joke Is on Mankind, which will be out early this summer.
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Sirens!ancient goddesses! Creepy crawly creatures from anothere world!

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The always-entertaining Spicy Dicey

The always-entertaining Spicy Dicey talks with me on the Skull Session podcast about her love of vampires and her controversial books, which have (at least temporarily) banned her on Facebook!
See more and get a signed copy on her website

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Killercon in August in Austin, or The Deadman’s Hand in Albany in October.

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The always enteraining Dicey Grenor talks with me about vampires, and how Amazon temporarily banned her!

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Finally! The brand new book trailer for The Never Dead

Finally! The brand new book trailer for The Never Dead, was created by the talented Alan Liptak!

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16 terrifying Twilight Zone style stories

 

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