@agentofweird.bsky.social
Award-lacking writer of comics + fiction (Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Warhammer). Curator of Agent of Weird, https://alecworley.substack.com, exploring the craft of fantasy, horror and sci-fi for readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators.
What creative ownership really means, comics vs. prose, writing a tale I can finally call my own, and how it all went wrong when I wasn’t writing for money...
With thanks to @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social @obrackenbury.bsky.social + @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
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A peaceful scene of a swamp, with greens, blues and purples, a tree in the foreground and the head of a huge dragon visible resting in the water. A white heron takes off next to the dragon and it's eye is open.
'Glaurmir The Ancient' - still my favourite painting from the past few years I think. There's something about it! It was also the first time successfully using masking fluid! #dragon #painting #watercolour #dragonart #magical #folklore #fairytale
25.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 390 🔁 98 💬 5 📌 1Haha! It's Dynamite who publish Sonja these days. If I ever get an 'in' (which I doubt), I'll let ye know. ;)
22.01.2026 09:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you ever need a writer in that department, you know who to call... (he says, casual laughter masking the Gollum-like hunger in his eyes)
21.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fantastic!
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Black and white illustration by Danny Cruz, portraying a confident warrior woman standing atop a pile of bodies, holding the head of a freshly slain beastman, battle-axe slung over her shoulder.
Black and white illustration by Danny Cruz, portraying a shirtless, musclebound warrior man standing atop a pile of skulls, wearing a helmet with one long horn of a pair broken off.
Black and white illustration by Danny Cruz, portraying a a demogorgon.
Black and white illustration by Danny Cruz, portraying Trapjaw from Masters of the Universe.
WELCOME DANNY CRUZ!
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Holy cow!!
21.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Red Sonja sketch from earlier this morning.
21.01.2026 10:36 — 👍 56 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Artist Simon Harrison draws Judge Anderson for Judge Dredd Megazine 488 -- and we went behind the scenes with him for an extensive look into his creative process!
Read here ▶️ https://bit.ly/3LXBvEC
Wow! Fab cover!!
16.01.2026 08:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover art for issue eight of New Edge Sword & Sorcery, by Jimmy Makepeace aka @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social. Mostly violet and pale yellow in color, it shows two Mongol women from the era of Genghis Khan standing in a room being transformed into another world by strange energies from the fallen head of a statue. Each of them is armed, and wary.
Oh hey, it's the cover art for issue 8! Painted by @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social!
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WIP - Judge Giant.
16.01.2026 08:11 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In my latest interview I got to speak with GW legend Marc Gascoigne about some of the classic Games Workshop boardgames!
We talk Chainsaw Warrior & the work of Stephen Hand, unpublished Frankenstein, and other lost gems.
youtu.be/-5YqyQVespA
#WarhammerCommunity @gravesnailyard.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL: ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEGA-CITY ONE!
Anderson hits the red carpet in Judge Dredd Megazine 488, out 21st January with a cover by Simon Harrison!
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Blood Angels primaris command group including a Captain and Standard Bearer
3 54mm Storr Warriors - berserker barbarian types with freehanded tattoo designs
75mm Shapechanger based on the cover art of The Forest of Doom
A Frostgrave diorama of dueling wizards in a frozen ruin
Ah, #PortfolioDay again!
Hi folks, I'm Paul & I paint miniatures & make bespoke scenery pieces for private clients & games companies
#CommissionsOpen - slots from mid March at time of writing - do get in touch!
www.pandaemoniumminiatures.com
#Nerdlings #MiniaturePainting #WePaintMinis
Paperback of Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes on a plain white background, cover art by M.E. Morgan aka @morlevart.bsky.social on Bluesky.
💓 BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES🪓
is now on Amazon in digital, softcover, and hardcover.
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Edited by @jayxwolf.bsky.social, it holds approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart!
Writing secrets, stories from dark fantasy realms, and insight into building worlds and telling tales - I have a newsletter just for you.
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These look pretty damn good together. Just sayin'.
The future of sword & sorcery is pocketbooks.
Can't wait to read this one. Congrats!
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Watching the first movie in 4k tonight. Gonna lose myself in Timothy Chalamet’s dreamy hi-def eyes. :D
10.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ended up getting a bit obsessed. Considering reading Children of Dune now, despite reading Messiah last year and thinking it was utterly mental.
10.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s a big old game. Board’s the size of actual Arrakis!
10.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Got Deep Regrets for Christmas, but got sidetracked ploughing through the rulebook for Dune: War for Arrakis. :P
10.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finally indulged in the @2000ad.bsky.social Christmas prog and had a thoroughly good time!
Was especially looking forward to the Hawk the Slayer strip by @agentofweird.bsky.social & @stazjohnson.bsky.social, and it delivered in spades! Great fantasy action!
Cheers, Jordan! Writing the next series this very week...
06.01.2026 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ready to devour these beauties from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, including a nautical tale by me that asks what if Queequeq from Moby Dick was an S&S heroine and what if Red Sonja got everything she ever wanted and became the bad guy, illustrated by the amazing @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
Yarrrr!
Done. How much chaos can I cram into a painting? All of it. First image created at @helioscopepdx.bsky.social
"The Encounter", 12"x18" acrylic on panel. #elricofmelnibone #AdventureAtSea #redsonja #octopus #tallships #helioscopepdx
A 9x9 grid of the artist's work from 2025 (all fantastical watercolor paintings) with a black & white photo of the artist in the center.
This past year in grid form!
#artvsartist #artvsartist2025
A dark brown/rust red dragon with curved horns and smoke coming out of his nostrils, he's crawling along the ground from right to left and we can see the claws on his wing tips.
The Northern Rustback, from my book Savage Strangehollow. Pre-orders open again in January (books will ship end of Feb at earliest). If you want to be notified when the shop opens then join my newsletter here: buff.ly/ET9Po9M
#dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart
First few pages of script + finished art (by @stazjohnson.bsky.social) for the new Hawk the Slayer one-shot out now from @2000ad.bsky.social (Had to cut the title page for space. Check out my Substack for a fuller version.) Enjoy, if you like that sort of thing…
17.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hark at this ghastly London ragamuffin telling spooky Christmas stories in a daft voice with authentically Dickensian production values!
No reading required!
Gawd bless us, everyone!
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