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Detail of the little shark mermaid from "Sunken Sunlight"
Spring 2016; A Quick Question about Christmas Cards
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Choosing a theme for Christmas this year
A number of you joined this newsletter (hello!) as part of backing Studio Wondercabinet's Cthulhu Christmas Greeting Card Kickstarter campaign last winter.  Some of you signed up at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month.  Some of you are long time subscribers.  Your opinions are important to me because all of you enjoyed my work enough to follow me here.  That means a lot to me.  If you have a moment, I would value your thoughts about a possible project.

The Question
Late last year Studio Wondercabinet successfully ran our first kickstarter campaign to create a set of gently humorous Lovecraftian Christmas cards.  It was a lot of work and a lot of fun; we started way too late in the season and managed to pull it off anyway, shipping our CCGC card sets in time for the holidays.  Hurrah for luck!  And many thanks to the good folks who backed us -- I hope you had fun with your cards!

So here we are in 2016, and I'm being asked if I'm going to create another set of C'thulhu Christmas Cards this year.  And I don't know.  I don't want to paint the same old gods all over again -- that would be boring for all of us, and I'd worry about whether this year's Great Race of Yith joke was as funny as last year's.  (Probably not, alas.) On the other hand, I don't know how far I can wander from the famous Old Ones before I lose your interest.  So, talk to me. Of the possibilities I've been considering, which of them sound potentially interesting to you, personally?  How far away from Cthulhu is too far? 
     - The Dreamlands
     - The Funghi from Yuggoth poem cycle
     - Robert W. Chambers' The King In Yellow; the content of the play as it is known from stories like "The Repairer of Reputations," not just a lot of thespians going mad in rehearsal.
     - Gothic horror that Lovecraft himself would have read.  Arthur Machen's The White People, for example, is a lovely intersection of Gothic horror and pre-Christian magic that Lovecraft greatly admired.

I could have great fun working from any of these themes, but it would be sad to find that I had created art that no one wanted to see.  Do any of them excite you?  Talk to me...
What should I paint for Xmas?
This Angry Unicorn at the end of the letter has a history.  It was originally drawn as a possible illustration for a D&D manual back in 2006, rejected, and left in my art files for the next decade.  I found it recently and thought it was actually a fun little critter; I cleaned up the lines, tweaked the tail and ears and applied some subtlety where it would do the most good.

Do you like it?  "Angry Unicorn" needs a home. Artwork is graphite on drawing paper, measures approx. 6.5x9" and is available matted for 99 USD.  For purchase within the continental US, I'll provide shipping at no extra charge.  Elsewhere, I'll figure the charges and offer a significant discount to my friends who follow my newsletter. First to contact me can give Angry Unicorn the home he needs.
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I'm an old-school fantasy artist whose personal work wanders between Oz and the Dreamlands, with a love of golden-age illustration and a 12 year run of Magic; the Gathering illustration in my background. I like illuminating monsters.
Want to hear me talk about the CCGC campaign, Magic the Gathering and my favorite fantasy writers in a convenient podcast?

Now you can!  Leeman Kessler of "Ask Lovecraft" and the guys at "Miskatonic Musings" podcast let me join them for an hour (?) of rambling and  borderline-incoherent discussion of art, weird fiction and the work of Frank L. Baum that I've been told is "adorably nerdy."  Here's Episode 134 - Tin Woodsman
 
Upcoming Events
May 21, 2016 - Spring Fairy Festival, Tacoma, WA

I'll be bringing my misbegotten fay and amiable monsters to this popular Tacoma-area event for a day of faerie frolic.  Check it out!
 
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