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Dare you confront a fearsome Uzult in its unholy stronghold? Will you brave the malevolent mists of the Miasmagon? Can you resist the Volupyrie’s tempest of temptation?Within these pages lurk eighty hitherto unheard-of entities of the imagination, each one vividly described and illustrated. Fourscore Phantasmagores is a compendium of creatures great and small, vile and virtuous, mundane, and magical. Creatures of the waters, earth, air, and ether, some sympathetic, others utterly sinister.Drawing on a diversity of styles and techniques, from the realm of high fantasy and far beyond, artist and writer Rupert Bottenberg conjures up a panoply of preternatural apparitions. It is a rich read for the fantasy aficionado—and a bountiful resource for the role-playing gamer.“Rupert’s creatures are equal parts whimsical and unsettling in a way that takes me back to playing D&D with my cousins and voraciously reading about monsters and myths. Open up this tantilizing tome and get ready for a trip.”—Jim Zub, writer of Dungeons & Dragons and Conan: Red Sonja

ISBN: 978-1-928087-16-8 $20, 6 x 9”, 90 pages, color & black and white, Bilingual Éditions TRIP Published in 2011, Rupert Bottenberg’s Traumstadtdenken became Éditions TRIP’s first bestseller, going on to win Quebec’s Bédélys Independent Award in 2012. The book is also part of a special collection of independent graphic novels at the United States Library of Congress. Bottenberg is back with a mindblowing collection of new drawings, stories and comics, most in colour. The perfect book for those who love and appreciate amazing graphics, playful comics and beautiful design. For the launch at TCAF, all TRIP debuting books will come with a silkscreened Ex Libris signed by the artist.

(donated by JP King)

TCAF is The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, taking place May 9-11, 2014, in Toronto, Canada. More at http://torontocomics.com/

via Rupert Bottenberg: A rather handy contraption, selected from the recently released Arbeitees V2, by Marc Bell and myself. Printed with the delightful risograph process by publisher Paper Pusher, the 16-page oversize colour minicomic revisits the 1996 mini Bell and I doodled out (recently reprinted by Fantagraphics Books in their new Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 1). Arbeitees V2, coloured by good palKirsten McCrea, will soon be available for order on Paper Pusher’s site but for the moment, you can grab it here.

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