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An old comic I made in art school (14 years ago) about a papa and baby bear, as well as a neolithic human sacrifice

The annual Sun Festival in the city of Oda!

After 5 years in making...

SHARP EYE #1 IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER SEPTEMBER, 2025.

Written by Daniel Bensen, co-written & drawn by Artyom Trakhanov (me!), colored by Jason Wordie, and all-fathered by sir Simon Roy himself, our first 48-page issue (for the format, think Howard Chaykin's Twilight, or Mike Mignola's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser for Epic Comics) is going to be both new readers-friendly and satisfying to all you FIRST KNIFE freaks!

Please, follow the campaign Iink here and press "Notify me on launch" to help and support us - and also help yourself with the whole "not missing the campaign" thing comes this September!

Hey everybody, go check out @simon-roy 's new book Refugium on Kickstarter! If Simon's reputation on its own somehow isn't enough to convince you to back it, there's a whole mini specbio guidebook with entries from me and like a ton of your other favorite artists probably.

Harvest Mouse

by Simon Roy

The Crone's Mantle

Traipsing through the marshy lowlands of Western Altamira's south, one may come across an unusual member of the pentapoda, colloquially known as the Crone's Mantle.

This shallow-water specialist, standing 7 feet tall at the peak, spends the warm months similarly to most large pentapods, feeding on water plants and drawing much of its energy from the sun. Come the shorter days of the cold season, however, the Mantle seeks a different source of energy.

Conserving what limited energy it can draw from sunlight during the short days, the Mantle roots itself in place along shallow stretches of rivers and streams. Its unusual downturned sails create shade that attract small squilloids, which, upon sensing the movement with its bristly legs, are snatched out of the water with its anterior appendage and flung into the Mantle's ventral mouth.

The Mantle shares its home with a variety of semiaquatic rasps, wading terrestrial squilloids and - most notably - predatory grapplers. The slow-moving Mantle defends itself with loud trumpeting from two respiratory organs atop its conical back, and if that's not enough, its ventral sails secrete a foul-tasting oil that deters most predators.