Alec Worley

The other day @davilorium.bsky.social said: you never drew Red Sonja, it would be cool in your style 🧙🏻‍♀️ Was David right? 🤨 Reel of the process soon ⚔️

#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart

Judge Dredd Megazine 486 is out on 19th November, featuring ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION: HELL NIGHT AT THE CINE-PIT, Part Two by:

📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social

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Cheers for the heads-up! Auto-preorder! :D It's about damn time Saunders got his due.

We Need To Stop Being Weird About Theme in Stories What your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it

Some thoughts on what your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it. Plus ego-grumbles about writing comics.

#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing

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Cheers! Thanks for the kind words, chaps.

Lessons from Hannibal Lecter: How to Write a Human Monster Can horror be scary without the supernatural?

What’s so scary about Hannibal Lecter anyway?

How horror/thriller author Thomas Harris generates terror in a key scene from his classic thriller Red Dragon (1981).

#writinghorror #hannibal #horrorfiction

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A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

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Tales for a Halloween Night vol 11 coming to books stores in October.

Here is my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social exclusive cover for @stormkingcomics.bsky.social

#johncarpenter #talesforahalloweennight

OUTLAND. Cover art for a 4k restoration from Arrow Video

The Best Scene in 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981) Isn't the One You Think How to write a comedy of terrors

“If this movie wasn’t a comedy, it would be unwatchable…”

Lessons on writing comedy-horror from John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981).

#writinghorror #americanwerewolfinlondon

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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 1 of 4) How I broke into comics and why there's no such thing

@agentofweird.bsky.social regales us with the Sisyphean journey of what getting your first comics work entails, how it never ends, and how that's a good thing, actually.

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“Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night…”

Getting my New Edge on in Montmartre, Paris…

Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896) Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction

Here's my 20-minute audio version of 'The Red Room' (1896), a classic ghost story by the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells.

Expect Victorian gothic, a haunted castle, and me doing my posh voice...

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The Judge Death Mega Special Descends this October
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@alexdecampi.bsky.social
@mrleecarter.bsky.social
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#judgedeath #comics #comicbooks

My second book, Within the Weeping Eye, is now out worldwide. Thanks in advance for support, shares, reviews.

💪 📖 ⚔️

If you send me proof of purchase, I'll DM you a personalized message from (an) Arnold Schwarzenegger (impersonator/me).

Shares appreciated 😉

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Out November 12, 2025, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #1 (of 2) We have a cool variant cover from Matt Smith too.

Looks like this bas been announced. It’s a major thrill to be teaming up with newly Eisner-winning @getcampbell.bsky.social & the no doubt many Eisners winning @mikemignola.bsky.social on a HELLBOY & ABE SAPIEN two-part story.

Felt cute. Might throw a priest out of a window later.

A giant mechanical ant literally hanging around the workshop with a couple of unknown FX artists in this behind-the-scenes pic from monster-movie classic ‘Them!’ (Gordon Douglas, 1954).

Image sourced from Pinterest, photographer unknown, possibly lasered to death under a giant magnifying glass.

Submissions | Old Moon Quarterly - Dark Fantasy Magazine

We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website!

www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions

Having greater firearms experience, producer Gale Anne Hurd stood in for Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez for this close-up shot in 'Aliens' (James Cameron, 1986).

Photographer unknown, though mostly came out at night. Mostly.

What I drew for TSR's toy line—with constant demands for "more detail!"—and what they actually manufactured & sold.

@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are a driving force in the current Sword & Sorcery revival! Definitely worth supporting if you’re into heroic fantasy with a modern edge!

Back then, I watched a lot of his stuff on 35mm at the BFI. I was focused mainly on his fairy tale/fantasy work, but they didn't have many of his films at all as I recall. Terribly sad. He was the father of both special effects and fantasy cinema.

Wrote a chapter on Melies for my movie book. (Flicking through it right now...) At the time of his death he'd amassed over 500 shorts - less than 40% have survived. Melies destroyed many of them himself, the rest were either confiscated by the Nazis or melted down to make boot heels for the army. :(

Still got my copy, though it's falling to pieces. That shark-toothed manticore used to haunt my dreams. :D

Sometime Lofty Towers A Sword & Sorcery novel by a veteran of the genre.

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Review: Superman (James Gunn, 2025) Telling a superhero story the DC way

Spoiler-free!

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Good luck fielding those two eejits! :D Have fun… and a very cool Yule.