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CRYPTOZOOLOGY FOR DUMBASSES NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD! HOLY COW!

With thirty beautiful illustration pieces by some of the world’s most spiritually accelerated artists, CRYPTOZOOLOGY FOR DUMBASSES is the only guide you’ll ever need to explore the wild and weird world of cryptids— animals that haven’t yet been recognized by conventional science.

Finally, learn the REAL, TRUE FACTS about cryptid superstars such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, as well as discover lesser-known cryptids such as the Ningen and Burrunjor. THE WORLD IS STRANGER THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED! Download CRYPTOZOOLOGY FOR DUMBASSES today, and let Abraxas Chessmaster and his brilliant team of artists lead you on the only safe path through it!

PDF, 44.9mb, 66 fantastic pages. PAY WHAT YOU WANT! If you enjoy what you read, however, feel free to donate— everyone who contributed gets an equal slice of what you give. Everyone worked really, really hard on this zine, and the results are pretty astounding. We hope you dig it!

You read that right, folks.

After some serious thought and consideration, I’ve decided that The Sleep of Reason will include Dave Cooper’s brand new, full-color, 23-page Eddy Table story NO MATTER THE FINAL TOTAL. The book is worth it.

As of this very moment, the Kickstarter has less than 48 hours until the funding period concludes. We still have a lot of great rewards left, including the opportunity to have a beetle species named after you for real. Get in on this!

The Sleep of Reason has about one week left on Kickstarter!

There are over 20 pages of previews to read in the updates, and you can still get your hand on one of Stabwool’s felted cryptids. like the one shown above!

Preview of one of my sculptures for the Sleep of Reason kickstarter. The creature’s fur is all Tussah silk, and I’ve been painstakingly applying it tuft by tuft.

While trimming this beast’s fur, I have probably inhaled, swallowed, and otherwise unwittingly absorbed a ridiculous amount of silk in the past couple of days. I can only hope that my inevitable death from silk poisoning will be considered heroic and land me a footnote in the annals of art history.

This monster is still available as one of the reward tiers in the kickstarter! But if you’d prefer to just get a paperback collection of original scary comics by a bunch of incredible artists for only $30, you can do that too!!

CURRENTLY I am working on the other five sculptures. Here's what they are, preliminarly:

a Flatwoods Monster

a Hodag

a Leviathan

a Jersey Devil

a Mo-Mo

It’s here.

The Sleep of Reason is a 360-page black-and-white anthology of horror comics for mature readers. Inspired by likes of Taboo, Uzumaki and Black Hole, this collection is devoid of the familiar by design. There are no garden-variety monsters in The Sleep of Reason; no well-worn terrors from film and television. This is an anthology of comics that strive to inspire unparalleled dread.

No monsters with a rule book. No easy answers.

Interested?

Pre-order The Sleep of Reason now, and you help support its creators, supplement their page rates, and finance the book’s print run. It won’t happen without your help! Grab a book with free US shipping, and perhaps one of the project’s incredibly unique backer rewards— like having a new species of beetle named after you!— here.

And guess what? Help us hit $80,000, and we’ll include a BRAND NEW FULL-COLOR STORY by DAVE COOPER!

ALSO, NOT ONLY DO STEVAN AND I HAVE A 16-PAGE STORY IN THIS BOOK, BUT:

If you pledge $300 you'll get the book, the ebook, and a one-of-a-kind never-to-be-reproduced mixed media (mostly needle felted, possibly including some real bones) monster made by me. And if you pledge $350, you'll get an even more completely unique and larger mixed media monster modeled after the one in our story. It'll be covered in soft, shiny, terrifying tussah silk fur.