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Testament Part Two: Heiuper
Ever work on a thing for so long you lose sight of what it is? What it was? That is how I feel about Testament. I’ve spent year illustrating and writing and rewriting and designing and carving and printing and sewing. I lost sight of what I was trying to do in the flow of…
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Foreword
At least once a day I stop and think to myself, “I have some talented friends.” It can be a joke on social media, a piece of artwork I see, a snippet of writing, or just a stray thought that triggers that phrase. I find myself lucky in that regard, having surrounded myself with people…
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Making a Page for Testament
When I set out to make Testament, all 288 hand painted, block printed, and hand written pages, I didn’t have much of a plan. I knew I wanted to write a book. I knew I wanted to make it an artifact. I knew I was going to hand make every single page. And I knew I…
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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Monster?
One of my favorite things when I was a teenager was the loose leaf pages of the AD&D 2E monster manuals. I loved how the best entries treated the monsters they covered with the seriousness of an 18th century naturalist, positing theories on how a goblin exists inside its corner of a wider ecosystem. And as these…
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Yggdrasil Magazine. Away We Go!
Last night I launched a crowdfunding effort to bring to life a quarterly gaming magazine called Yggdrasil. I am filled with excitement, and a bit of dread. Excited because I love creating things and sharing those things with others. Dread because of the vulnerability you expose to others when you share your self. So, par…