A new cover for the Hit Point Press rerelease of Lucian Kahn‘s award-winning 2-player tabletop game.

Cover painting for Dead Friend (ink, 2023)

A collection of 3 hilarious and macabre Jewish tabletop games from designer Lucian Kahn, published by Hit Point Press.

Cover painting for If I Were a Lich, Man (ink, 2021)

 

If I Were A Lich, Man boxed set with book, cards and dreidels. (photos courtesy of Hit Point Press)

Spot illustration of a grandmotherly vampire bat from Same Bat Time, Same Bat Mitzvah.

Card designs for Same Bat Time, Same Bat Mitzvah and If I Were A Lich, Man.

 

As a huge fan of the show, I was thrilled to work with the folks at The Gauntlet and longtime collaborator Gabriel Robinson on the Silt Verses TTRPG adaptation.

Cover painting for The Silt Verses (watercolor, 2023)

Ink painted interior spread of a ruined house in a marshland.

Interior art of the Cairn Maiden standing in a wheat field.

Interior art of the junkyards, full of the icons of obsolete deities.

Interior art of the dream tanks belonging to the Parish of Tide and Flesh.

Interior art of a telephone wire shrine dedicated to the Saint Electric.

One of my ongoing personal projects is the creation of Jewish imagery & Judaica that appeals more to my own alternative, “spooky” & macabre sensibilities – after all, why should Catholic goths have all the fun?

 

Goth Jew (digital, 2022)

 

Hail Sheydim (digital, 2019)

 

Protective Pomegranate, Claw Hamsa, & Cherub pins (pin-back buttons, 2017-2021)

A few interior illustrations for Patrick Monari’s ZineQuest TTRPG The Academy Chrysalis.

Summoning (ink painting, 2021)

Wraith (ink painting, 2021)

 

This cover for issue #1 of Golem Zine (dedicated to Jewish life & culture in Glasgow) involved a deep dive into the history of Glaswegian Jewish art and local architecture.

Glasgolem cover (pen & ink, 2022)

This mixed media piece was created for the PM Press anthology Black Metal Rainbows, a collection of essays on black metal through queer and feminist lenses. I started with the antique illustration of the doll head (“Minerva” was the company, the new metal head was the selling point) and worked from there via the goddess Minerva’s associations with wisdom, the arts and war. The head on the spear references the ongoing fight against white supremacist groups in the metal music scene.

Collage with pen & ink, 2019

My second ZineQuest 2 project, cover & interior illustrations for game designer Gabriel Robinson‘s tabletop roleplaying game Candlelight. For this story of lost adventurers trying to find their way out of the forest that claimed their lives, we decided to set the tone with moody ink paintings that hint at dark forces deep within the woods and the tragic pasts of the players.

 

Cover painting for Candlelight (pen & ink wash, 2020)

Interior art of a lych gate.

Spot illustration of a cursed locket.

Spot illustration of a broken lantern.

A sheyd (Jewish demon) inspired by two major stylistic influences, Leonard Baskin & Aubrey Beardsley, and also by the #AugustAdiPOSE & #FatArt hashtags on Twitter. The title/text “feygele” is a Yiddish word meaning “little bird” often used as slang for a queer person – here also playing off the figure’s size & the bird-like attributes of sheydim in folklore. A queer/trans fat Jewish aspiration!

Feygele (pen & ink with digital border, 2020)