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Go and check out this fic by @imashayne for this year's @dpxdcbigbang!

My submission for Ghouls and Gangs DPxDC Bang @dpxdcbigbang this year for the talented Javikami. You can find their fic here.

I tried to show levels of "realness" or reality by the color intensity/solidness. This is super compressed lol, image size limits sure are strict.

My pieces for @tencitizens's End to Start, for the 2025 round of Ghouls and Gangs/@dpxdcbigbang.

There were other things I could’ve drawn, yes, including much shippier things, but the adorable/heartbreaking bookends of hugging your half-dead little-brother-in-law took me out at the knee and anyway, now we’re here, hahaha. 

Though I did include the ( very long ) concept sketches for a few other ideas behind the cut, some of which actually got to include some Death Defying in ‘em.

I'm SO honored to have your art to accompany my fic!!! Every piece you've made (including the sketches!!) keep blowing my mind they are so freaking amazing, so beautiful! The colors, the composition, the characters, EVERYTHING! Thank you @suzukiblu for your hard work !!! <3 <3 <3

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The Strange Mixtape by @deadcanons. MCU, 64k, casebound at quarto size. Two copies - one for me, one for the author! Plus a funky slipcase to keep it safe in the mail.

The bookcloth and endpapers I both found while on vacation last month. The cloth reminded me a lot of the Aaron Bachalo run of Strange comics, which the author mentioned in the notes as visual inspiration - and I just thought the endpapers looked funky and chaotic and magical in general. The cutouts on the front and the back have a magic circle and a spiderweb vellum underlay, respectively! I always like using this technique on covers, and it felts especially good here.

The slipcase - pulling it together was tricky enough that I only made one of them, and that one's going to the author. There's so much comics inspiration in this fic that I liked the idea of using comics collages to decorate them. I found some nice free wallpaper online for both Strange and Spidey, and I think it brings the whole thing together. There's a New York skyline on the top, a pair of dangling headphones down the spine, and a functional Spotify code for the overall fic playlist on the bottom.

Typeset in Georgia, with Dr.Charmed used for titles and chapter headers, and OCR A Extended for the song tabs. Every chapter has a corresponding song, which is named and cited at the start, with a QR code and a Spotify link so you can listen along while reading!

Here's a rough Portal-Cloak animation test from a while ago that I forgot to post.

He’s a very cooperative and fulfilling scene partner, acting partner, you know. It’s pretty crazy.