Jared Smith

A pile of issues of Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes with pearls on one corner and plants creeping in on the other

Today's the day! Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes is OUT.

Written by me!
Drawn by me!
Colored by me!
Lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Logo by @dylantodd.bsky.social

Per R.J. Gillis on Mastodon (dice.camp/@rj), the New York City government released a #DnD one-shot designed to teach ethics rules to city employees. 😄

Its ink and color marker drawings of multiple sprite redraws from Fields of Mistria. Its the water sprite statue, a moon fruit, a marigold flower, a monster shell, a daikon radish, a grilled cheese with the gooey cheese, a capybara with a tangerine on its head, a jade dulse, an orange, a basket of yarn balls and lastly a jar of blackberry jam! Not very detailed I tried to replicate their simple game sprite looks.

Little Mistria things I like
#drawtober #fieldsofMistria

Nerd Inferno comic cover by me and Sarah Dyer for a collection of all my creator-owned work from Dark Horse Comics

NERD INFERNO IS COMING! LOCK YOUR DOORS! BOLT YOUR WINDOWS! AND PREORDER THE FUCK OUT OF IT!
4/21/26
From @darkhorse.com
Read about it on The Comics Beat here: tinyurl.com/3yj9zvdw

Appendix M for Michael Illustration for The Tombs of Atuan by Charles Vess (from The Books of Earthsea ) All the creative works that influenced me and my own crea...

Wrote for the Appendix N blog bandwagon about how my brain got to be the way it is and how Ursula K. Le Guin came to be the chief architect of my mind palace: 1999ad.blogspot.com/2025/09/appe...

Standing atop ruins at the end of the world, an anguished Elric thrusts the runeblade Stormbringer to the heavens. The sky behind him roils with clouds rendered in acidic green. The chainmail on his right arm is torn. He wears a yellow tunic and belts strapped across his waist and chest crusted with jewels. His purple and black cloak billows in the wind. From a leather cord, he holds an ivory horn with ornate swirls of gold. The ruins he stands upon are crumbling, including the face of a skull that is missing a chunk of forehead and part of the orbital. The mouth isn't human given the fangs in its mouth and the horns protruding off the side of the head that is intact. Off to the side, a pterosaur-like creature perches with wings spread.

STORMBRINGER (1977)
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"

I remember trying to get in the mood of painting for the last time the albino sorcerer king, Elric. I took a clothes rail out of a closet for my sword and ran around outside slashing at weeds and lunging at the breeze. 1/5

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

"37 cents."

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

important

welcome! looking forward to the new one!

The brightly coloured cover to Wyrd Science 7. A pair of techno-barbarians & their mutant alien wizard friend are exploring an underground base, once home to am advanced civilisation but now only DEATH LIVES HERE

It's Monday, works boring and I know you're probably thinking, damn, I wish I could buy a cool magazine about tabletop games today that will then be delivered in September as a little treat to future me...

Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo!

shop.wyrd.science

New issue of Wyrd Science up for order/subscription!

This is the first one post-KS so you need to re-up if you got them through that.

Pre-order The MCDM RPG on BackerKit This project was funded with $4.5m in December 2023 by a community of 30,000 generous Backers who believe.

So DRAW STEEL is out today, and I wanna thank a bunch of people who made it happen. I gotta start with the folks on my team every day who showed up with incredible passion and dedication @thewillyboo.bsky.social and @djordi.bsky.social. They are HEROES.

drawsteel.com

Mythic Bastionland is now up for general sale.

Order directly from Bastionland Press (now including Canada):
bastionlandpress.com/collections/...

Or for those in the US and Central/South America, please go to: plusoneexp.com/collections/...

baby needs pasta grocery store sign

rolling up to the Olive Garden like

book cover photograph of Dan Pelzer in front of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, "What Dan Read 1962-2025"

Dan Pelzer's handwritten book list, first page: 1962

Final page of Dan Pelzer's book list from 2025. Photo of Dan (man in glasses, polo shirt, and holding a bottle of "Danhattan"

“Nobody loved the library more than Dan.”

A meticulous list kept by Dan Pelzer from 1962-2025, cataloging all the books he borrowed and read from the Columbus Metropolitan Library, shared by his daughter.

I could not could not love this more.

Dan's book list (all 109 pages) at what-dan-read.com

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

The Languages of D&D Imply a Specific Setting — Prismatic Wasteland If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.

You probably know how languages in D&D work: pretty much everyone speaks “Common” but there are also a smattering of languages different ethnic groups speak like Elvish and Dwarven. For this to make sense, it tells us something about the implied setting of D&D
#ttrpg #osr #dnd

Ratcatcher Magazine for DRAW STEEL - Issue 01 A community zine of new content for MCDM's Draw Steel: Mimics, dryads, living traps, map advice, and more!

We are LIVE NOW with RATCATCHER MAGAZINE: ISSUE 01 for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's DRAW STEEL. Mimics, dryads, living traps, map advice, and more!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Black and white drawing of Link and Zelda, Zelda has dark hair and adventurer's clothes. Both are holding swords and have pendants on their neck. There is a fairy between them. It's night behind Zelda and day behind Link.

Link & #Zelda from the Choose Your Own Adventure Gamebook, Battle of Mirage Castle, 1986. #ゼルダの伝説 蜃気楼城の戦い. Illustrations by Yūko Tanaka. You play as both characters!

Full Scans (It's still untranslated!) archive.org/details/zeld...
Story: zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/The_Leg...

This is one the last projects I worked on at DnD and it's just oozing with fun Eddie-isms and 80's nostalgia. Couldn't be prouder of this product and all the brilliant minds behind it.

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

I have shown this to several different groups of friends.
Any chance of clothing or a print I could buy with your original design??

🎵"Cause I'm a punk rocker, yes I am."

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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

One Hundred Thousand Dragon Encounters No, I'm not actually going to describe one hundred thousand encounters with a dragon. How would I even do that? If you want an exhaustively ...

I wrote about all the variables that go into generating a random encounter in the wilderness (with a dragon, in this case). An encounter with a dragon is not *just* an encounter with a dragon, but an encounter with the world the player characters live in!

I told you we’d be back

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.