Artist Wanted

 No, not for us but Looney Labs is looking for an artist to draw cats for their upcoming Cat Fluxx game, releasing late 2025 or early 2026. Not sure at to what pay would be but here is the link to the form in case you are interested.

Wormy Prototype book

David "Tramp" Trampier was one of the early artists who worked for TSR creating art for the early AD&D books and modules.  One of his signature pieces was the art for the 1st edition DM Screen which we had on display in the store for several years. He was also known for the Wormy strip, which ran in Dragon magazine for a number of years. In the 1980s, he prepared this prototype book to convince ICE to publish the collection after plans for TSR to do so fell through. Unfortunately, the planned ICE publication never happened. Trampier passed away back in 2014 and I only saw his wife a few times over the past years as she became quite a recluse. When she died last summer, her body was not found for 3 days and the owner of the trailer she rented contacted on of her brothers asking what he wanted to do with the items in the trailer. He told them to throw everything out. 

The men hired to clean everything out saved a few items, a box of panels of original Wormy art and this prototype book, which is on display at the store until we either return it to his sister or offer it for display to the Lake Geneva library.
 

Brian K Morris

 

We stock in a number of Brian K. Morris' books on the Local Artist shelf at the front of the store.

 

Illinois native, BRIAN K. MORRIS, is an independent publisher of novels and comics, a freelance author, an "award-winning" playwright, and former morticians assistant.

Brian's work blends horror and contemporary fantasy with humor and leans towards strong female characters. He's sold books on three different continents and livecasts two shows on YouTube and Facebook, Nevermind the Furthermore and Clever Title Pending.

Brian lives in Central Indiana (but keeps his ties to Southern Illinois) with his wife, no children, no pets, and too many comic books.