Whenever I feel like illustrating some sword and sorcery I think of this analysis of Frazetta's style, written by the late great Jesse Hamm
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Whenever I feel like illustrating some sword and sorcery I think of this analysis of Frazetta's style, written by the late great Jesse Hamm
sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/68226.html
Oliver may have just submitted something for their next issue...
05.03.2026 18:42 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
While we're celebrating, jump over to help @swordsagainst.bsky.social fund SWORDS AGAINST! and push those stretch goals!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Excited to see whose story I get to critique. 👀 📝
05.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💪ARTIST RAISE UNLOCKED🎨
Now on to...
📈 10 cents a word for our authors.
📝Timeworn Terra flash fiction by @jamesenge.bsky.social for all!
✍️A short story critique by @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social for the lucky backer whose pledge gets us there.
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine. Live tonight at 7pm EST, free admission, all ages.
🎹 SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY IS TONIGHT!🔮
🎶💀Starting at 7pm EST, and hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social. There will be interviews with and live performances by several cool characters from the Dungeon Synth scene!💀 🎶
Watch it here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2026
A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine. Live tonight at 7pm EST, free admission, all ages.
🎹 SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY IS TONIGHT!🔮
🎶💀Starting at 7pm EST, and hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social. There will be interviews with and live performances by several cool characters from the Dungeon Synth scene!💀 🎶
Watch it here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2026
Phone and desktop dimension backgrounds clipped from Plastiboo's art for issue 9.
A copy of FANTASTIC magazine from February 1975, prominently featuring "In the shadows of the skull by l sprage de camp & lin carter"
📣Yowza! That next Artist Raise is coming up, only $58.50 to go, and with it digital backgrounds of our issue 9 art by Plastiboo for all...as well as a vintage S&S mag from Oliver's collection for the backer who gets us over the line!🎨
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
🎉⚔️WE'RE 200% FUNDED??🥳🧙♀️
📅And we still have until 12pm EST (plus overtime...) on Saturday, March 14th to unlock as many contributor raises as we can!✍️🎨
Thank you so much for helping us reach new heights while we do this crazy thing!
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Phone and desktop dimension backgrounds clipped from Plastiboo's art for issue 9.
A copy of FANTASTIC magazine from February 1975, prominently featuring "In the shadows of the skull by l sprage de camp & lin carter"
📣Yowza! That next Artist Raise is coming up, only $58.50 to go, and with it digital backgrounds of our issue 9 art by Plastiboo for all...as well as a vintage S&S mag from Oliver's collection for the backer who gets us over the line!🎨
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
▶️ Please enjoy this wonderful interview with Oliver by James Mills! Our editor was kind of a great mix of punch drunk, passionate, and having had a beer right before they started. 🍺
youtu.be/RrhVHBSBK-E
🎉⚔️WE'RE 200% FUNDED??🥳🧙♀️
📅And we still have until 12pm EST (plus overtime...) on Saturday, March 14th to unlock as many contributor raises as we can!✍️🎨
Thank you so much for helping us reach new heights while we do this crazy thing!
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
▶️ Please enjoy this wonderful interview with Oliver by James Mills! Our editor was kind of a great mix of punch drunk, passionate, and having had a beer right before they started. 🍺
youtu.be/RrhVHBSBK-E
7 books I read last year.
Double Edged Sword And Sorcery (two novellas back-to-back)
Piranesi
I, Lucifer
A Book With No Title
Conan The Freebooter
The Terrible True History Of The Toilet
Call For The Dead
nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/03/marc...
While I wasn't looking we passed the goal of getting @breadsonja.bsky.social's Flash Fiction!
On to the artist raise at $62,450!
We welcomed Oliver Brackenbury on to the blog to chat about the current crowdfunding campaign for NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY MAGAZINE issues 8, 9, and 10!
Read the interview here: www.fictionfanspodcast.com/post/crowdfu...
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚
Thanks again to @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social for hosting @epidiah.bsky.social for a game of Swords Without Master - the VOD is on youtube now, if you want to check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzAB...
✍️A pledge for the latest issues and a NESS pin would get us there, and that backer would receive a short story critique from @jpaknelson.bsky.social!
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Ah, okay gotcha! And thank you, it's much appreciated.
03.03.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, no pressure, but if you pledged for that now, that'd unlock our next author raise and thus you'd get the short story critique from Jeremy Pak Nelson (to use, or gift to a writer friend).
03.03.2026 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You won't be disappointed. John's written us a grand new Brugo tale!
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A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine.
🎹SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY🎵
🕰️7pm EST this Thursday night🕰️📅
Interviews with and live performances by awesome dungeon synth people, hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social!
Learn more here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Picture of an open cardboard box with a stack of issue one on the left side and a stack of issue two on the right side.
📣SPECIAL UDPATE📣
📖THE FINAL COPIES OF ISSUE ONE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED📖
Read more here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Author photo of John Fultz.
⚔️WELCOME BACK JOHN FULTZ!⚔️
John will have a brand new article in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Author photo of John Fultz.
⚔️WELCOME BACK JOHN FULTZ!⚔️
John will have a brand new article in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Not dumb at all! Yes, if you grabbed a copy of issue one through our Fall novellas crowdfund then have no fear, those have been set aside for you.
02.03.2026 22:09 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine.
🎹SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY🎵
🕰️7pm EST this Thursday night🕰️📅
Interviews with and live performances by awesome dungeon synth people, hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social!
Learn more here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Picture of an open cardboard box with a stack of issue one on the left side and a stack of issue two on the right side.
📣SPECIAL UDPATE📣
📖THE FINAL COPIES OF ISSUE ONE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED📖
Read more here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
🖌️WELCOME BACK MATTHEW SPENCER!🎨
@mspencerdraws.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Illustration by Matthew Spencer, cropped and zoomed in on a crowd of pirates, three of whom bear the faces of past crowdfund backers.
😃Don't forget you can GET YER FACE IN THE MAGAZINE, drawn into a story by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social! 🖌️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...