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William S. Burroughs

Everyone’s favourite junkie, William S. Burroughs.

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Dune

This design was voted for by my followers on Instagram.

With the release of the new Denis Villeneuve films, the books are more popular than ever, so I wanted to tap into that market.

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St. Francis of Assisi

This design was a follower request!

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

I drew one of my favourite authors and decided it’d work well as a bookmark.

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Charles Bukowski

Another case of drawing one of my favourite authors and deciding it’d work well as a bookmark.

Smeagol

Taken from a scene in the film. One for the fans.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted to create a bookmark that would complement the weird, colourful book covers that seem to appear on many of Vonnegut’s books: namely the Vintage (Penguin) ones, and to a lesser extend the Bantam ones.

I think the style suits his whimsy.

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Moby-Dick

A design that I hope captures the drama of the novel.

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Edgar Allan Poe

I of course went for something gothic and included ravens because I’m just so original.

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The King in Yellow

I’m a fan of cosmic horrors personally, and although Robert W. Chambers is not nearly my favourite author in the world, I do love the imagery surrounding his work “The King in Yellow”.

The “Yellow Sign” is on the back, too.

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The Bard

I drew this one after watching the latest Dungeons & Dragons film and it took my back to my rollplaying-oriented childhood.

No one buys this bookmark, but I’m very happy I got to draw it.

A follower on Instagram named this character Sebastian Cantante.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Back to cosmic horror! This is one of the first designs I made for A Couple of Dorks and it has been a best seller consistently.

There must be a larger cult of Lovecraft fans than I originally thought.

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Detective Noir

A rough ‘n ready detective, equipped with everyone’s favourite detectivey trench coat and fedora.

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Pulp Western

From time to time I like to read about the yee-haw old west by picking up a Zane Grey.

I know they’re terrible, but sometimes I just get a hankerin’.

This bookmark was to complement that hankerin’.

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Cyberpunk

This was voted for by my followers on Instagram and was inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick and William Gibson.

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Havisham

I MAY have gone a little too horror on this one.

It’s Havisham’s wedding table covered in cobweblike sheets.

No one buys this, but I had a blast painting it.

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The Lighthouse

I drew this after reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation).

I fell in love with his creepy lighthouse and decided to draw my own.

This one’s rather popular.

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Pulp Sci-Fi

I have always been drawn to retro science fiction art. This was the first in a series of pulp sci-fi themed bookmarks and was voted for by my followers on Instagram.

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Left Behind

The second in my series of pulpy sci-fi bookmark designs. Can also be labelled as “Raygun gothic.”

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Red Rocket

The third pulp sci-fi bookmark design, and probably the most popular.

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Blue Lobster

The attack of the Giant Blue Lobster!

Look out!

The fourth pulp sci-fi design. Another “Raygun gothic.”

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Brain Monsters!?

They came from outer space!

Yeah, I was enjoying drawing Raygun gothics for a while.

The fifth pulp sci-fi bookmark.

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Alien Invasion!

Okay, it’s basically Mars Attacks, but so what? This was super fun to draw.

The sixth pulp sci-fi bookmark.

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Atomic Diner

The Fallout TV series had just been announced and well… I felt inspired.

The seventh and final pulp sci-fi bookmark (for now).

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Southern Gothic

Cormac McCarthy is one of my all-time favourite authors. I tried to capture something of the atmosphere in Cormac’s work with this one. The rearside is a quote from his book “Outer Dark”; there is an alternative version as well which has a quote from “Blood Meridian”.

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Frankenstein

I was inspired by Bernie Wrightson’s artwork for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (graphic novel version), and decided to try a similar style for this. I loved the book in both regular, unabridged novel format (1818), and also graphic novel format.