Hive of the Overmind

Another Mutant Crawl Classics announcement on the Goodman Games Kickstarter here. In my painting above, these three explorers of the wasteland have just met the Overmind and I don’t think they made a good first impression. This is the cover for another Jim Wampler authored mutant extravaganza.

Artwork for SALE

I’ve updated my web store page with original art from Goodman Games and others.
http://www.stefanpoag.com/shop-for-original-artwork/
Scroll all the way down for bargains; more recent listings are near the top.

E.G.G. Memorial art

This is a drawing from several years ago — sadly, I no longer have the original. Someone was doing an ‘Ernest Gary Gygax’ memorial art thing and I was going to contribute this, but then the whole project vanished into the sucking hole that is the internet and later someone bought this drawing — one computer crash later, I am not even sure I still have a decent scan of it. The moral of the story? Always back up your hard drive, kids!

I liked this drawing and wished I had kept it. I’m especially proud of the angry hobbit in the foreground who seems to be shouting, “Come at me, you big bastard!”

Dagon (2016)

Sometime last year I adapted Lovecraft’s “Dagon” into a 20 page comic book… above is page 19. I wrote/drew “Dagon” hoping to place it in a specific publication, but that publication did not nibble… so now it is still available — any horror comics publishers interested, let me know… It is available in both color and BW. I think it works better in BW.

Despite Lovecraft’s flaws (as a writer and a human), I still enjoy his yarns. “Dagon” did not require a lot of rewriting to make it work as a comic — but I had to rewrite some of the historical details at the beginning to indulge my own sense of belief. I also re-wrote parts of the end to make the story more visual. The middle (and the meat of the tale), however, is very faithful to the original text.

Sky Masters of the Purple Planet

While packing up some artwork for shipment to a client, I found this gem from 2016!

Bride of the Black Manse (Goodman Games)

Goodman Games is reprinting Harley Stroh’s “Bride of the Black Manse” adventure book with a new cover by me!  LINK to more info.

Squiddle

Years ago, this creature was at the top of my web page… I called it a ‘squiddle.’ I had some fancy rollover animations where words would light up when you moused over different parts of the image (i.e: ‘portfolio’ when you moused over the eye, ‘links’ when you moused over the tentacles, etc.,) and there were links embedded in the image to take you to the pages indicated… I suppose it seemed very witty and sophisticated to me at the time but now seems stupid… but I still like the creature. Maybe I should draw more of them.