Thank you very much to everyone who ordered a package, and also to everyone who hawked them around for me. The gnomes and the big packs are all sold, but I’ll offer Northlanders pages and small packs until the end of October for anybody who wants to get in late.

And since I’m up to my nose in sketches and package-making, here are some of the various tasty things that I found on my camera’s memory card. I blew my whole food allowance for the month (don’t worry, it wasn’t much) on the opals above, so I’m looking at those summer muffins with more than usual yearning. You know I never regret a good shiny, though.

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I’ve put together some packs for sale, which you can browse below. I wanted these to be as much like art care packages as possible, because receiving a nice package in the mail is the coziest thing ever.

I’m also selling Northlanders pages on the cheap. I put more-than-usual energy into these pages, I think – I could draw rustic medieval subject matter forever and not get tired of it (plus, I was feeding off of my bottomless Skyrim hysteria, Viking-wise).

There are three gnomes available. I might have gone a little overboard with the gnomes (like for instance,  inventing a runic gnome alphabet… )

This month feels timely for an art sale. Brandon and I have both been trying to work as much as possible on our personal projects this year (and next year as well, we hope), so I’m trying to get some bills paid, and ensure our survival in general. How that ended with me sewing gnomes for a week straight, I’m still not entirely certain…

Also, our friend Robin McConnell runs a website where he sells Brandon’s work and my larger, fancier stuff – Beast pages and comic covers. If you buy something from him during October, I will happily include a coloured sketch of whatever you like.

The selection isn’t definitive, so if you have a specific request for a Beast page or King City page, or anything like that, feel free to ask!

If you have a question, or would like to buy something, send me an email at:

I should add: I’m taking payment via paypal, if that works for people. Canadian funds are ideal, but I’ll also accept US dollars.

I’ve added a couple new models this time around. Some time or other, I’ll make an expanded creature list for the goblin world – but here, besides my goblin self, we have a lady nymph, and a gangly male troll to whom I’ve relegated all the dresses.

If I could have one item from this lot, I would probably opt for the survival onesie, designed with a certain videogame in mind. Plus, you know, my apartment is just really cold.

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Here is my Autumn/Winter ’11 collection for the imaginary Hchom line. Arriving, now, as if it were just making its way into imaginary stores.

I actually decided to do this very much at the last minute, but I figure that I need to post something non-videogame-related before the Skyrim hysteria begins to mount past containment. October and the first ten days of November will have, ahem, something of a fantasy videogame flavour. And the second half of November will be crickets chirping.

As usual, I’ll put the “runway” drawings up tomorrow.

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I’ve been waiting for autumn to begin, as usual, since early July. This year I tried to embrace the full summerness of things, but I couldn’t really manage it. Autumn is when the adventures begin – when the shinies, deep in their caverns, are waiting to be pried loose and carried home.

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This is a Bedford Jacket. It’s made by Engineered Garments, which is a brand I love – and a menswear brand, all the better. I have a winter coat by them, altered to fit my lady torso, and it’s the best coat ever. So what I want now, since what we have is never good enough (and really, the coat is getting a bit worn at the cuffs…), is a version of this Bedford jacket in a heavy wool flannel (and a nice dark navy, if you please).

Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it anywhere – only hints that it exists this season. I’ve seen it in navy cotton canvas, and in navy wool serge, but not in the flannel. This is where having some kind of jacket agent in New York would be helpful, I expect. Jacket agents! Why isn’t that a real thing?

Also, while I’m free and easy with the unreasonable demands, I’d like some bright yellow gentlemen shoes. For my Urban-Dandy-Tom-Bombadil cosplay project, you understand.

I wasn’t planning on putting this up, but my other posts are all in a state of half-completion, so why not.

I drew these a little while ago, after playing through Dragon Age 2 a second time. I wanted to make my own version of an armour item pack, more reminiscent of the classic RPGs from my childhood which I now regard with all the unreasonable nostalgia that nearly two decades can create. Kids these days, and their new-fangled pointy-pauldroned gratuitously buckled armour! They just don’t know how it was back then, trudging uphill both ways through 8-bit pixel forests. Have some respect for your elders!

Anyway. Item pack and stuff. You might recognize the quilted armour on yonder rogue, because I draw it at every opportunity. I’ve also been playing mage-type characters lately, and with particular enjoyment in this game, except that I keep coming up against the fancy dressy lady mage issue (to be fair, this is probably only an issue for me). Can’t we have some nice, gender-neutral robes? For some reason I don’t often play warriors. I also never seem to make blonde characters, so I combined the two in this version.

Normally I’d save this level of geekery for my private affairs, but I can’t help but obsess.

And here’s the cafe menu. If I could wake up every morning, and stumble downstairs to be presented with brisk coffee and a softboiled egg with buttered toast soldiers… well. It would be hard to find fault with life.

And here’s some store inventory, as promised. It’s like a yuppified version of Bilbo’s larder, isn’t it? Well, there’s no hiding from yourself.

Cafe menu tomorrow.

I don’t expect I’ll ever own property. And as a comic artist, this is a prudent belief. But there’s this house down the street from me, and dude! It is clearly meant to be mine. It has two tiny businesses at the bottom, which in my version of things would be filled by a cafe and some kind of all-purpose shiny-hunter’s adventure market. Brandon could have the first floor, and I could have the second. Why can’t this just happen? Why I can’t I be the Queen of Sheba and have a million dollars?

Anyway. Tomorrow I’ll put up my Goblin Market inventory. The universe may never provide, but I’ll keep hinting all the same.