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JV West
@jvwest.bsky.social
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Creator. Comics, TTRPGs, pinup artist. Black Pudding zine, GOZR, The Pool, Doomslakers blog. Human rights FIRST. Human made art ONLY.
he/him person. www.jvwest.art
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Gee... I wonder what happened in 2020 that made me post more to my blog than any other year??
#donotremindme
It's a screenshot of my Blog Archive from Blogger showing posts by year. Most years have 40-100 posts but 2020 has 236.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Seer by Witch! I remember randomly finding this album, possibly on a torrent sharing site or Usenet. I can't remember. But this is such a sizzling guitar lick! If I was a stripper, I'd dance to this, to be real fuckin' honest. Psych rock
witch.bandcamp.com/track/seer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w9h...
Album cover for Witch, a stoner doom psych rock band. Circular design with elements such as a motorcycle, fanged head, winged thing, and a lot of smoke.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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When she's not slaying the demonic children of the Worm Witch, Fawn Rainchild enjoys relaxing on her sword.

c. 2007, I think.

Aside: Very few people saw the Hellion Cross comic with Fawn. I will most likely reprint that in Black Pudding Comics, if the project gets off the ground. Fawn in spaaaace!
Color drawing of a redheaded naked woman sitting on the blade of a sword. Dangerous!
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We all ball up our habits now and then.
Doodle of a weirdo in a monk outfit smoking a pipe. "Yes it is true we friars of Foon Fom Gar toil nightly, utterly consumed by LUST to document every word the inscrutable one gives us. It speaks frequently and at legth. We rarely have time for the friars to indulge our base distractions. But we ball up our habits now and then."
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Attention Earthlings. I have not crashed... merely elected to land dramatically to inspire awe.
Color drawing of a robot with guns and a crashed ship
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Say it loud and proud, Ignignokt. And tell Err to know his place.
Two video game figures from the early 80s standing in front of a 90s-looking computer generated background of a depressed suburban home. "I did know something I didn't know... but it wasn't that." Yes, it's the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Fall in, ya lousy grease traps!
Color drawing of a robot soldier with machine gun
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Can I bug you about something that just hit my radar?

#GOZR
Color drawing of monstrous fly or bug issuing radar waves
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Snikt, bub.
Color drawing of Wolcerine "snikt" Just his snarling face
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The good Captain. Carrot, that is.
Color drawing of rabbit superhero saying "leaping lettuce!"
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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ROM!
Ink drawing of Rom the Space Knight "Arrival".
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Found a scrapbook I kept in the late 90s. On this page I glued my original Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time cassette sleeve onto some Egyptian stuff. But I'll be honest... most of the pages are pics of Kate Winslet and Christina Ricci.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I haven't listened to #KGLW in a while. I think I got over-saturated. For a long time it was 95% of my music diet. When Phantom Island dropped, I was going into a metal mood. I still haven't listened to the album fully, so I have something to look forward to! #WeirdoSwarm
Color cartoon drawing of a gator in a red robe running away clutching a white hat.
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Cover for Black Pudding Play Book, my personal house rules for running dungeon games. #BlackPuddingZine #OSR #TTRPG
Black and white drawing of a skeletal warrior with armor and sword and very long, lush black hair.
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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At some point you must accept that you can't please them all. Stop chasing that ghost. It's paralyzing, isn't it? The fear that this person or that will not like what you created. You want everyone to like it, but they can't and won't and shouldn't. Everything is not for everyone.
Goofy color sketch of a bald man in glasses and flannel shirt saying "strong 5" but it's "stogrn" with a backwards five.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Here's the 2019 #GaryCon GM shirt I drew. The terrible aboleth snares another victim!
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I ran across this old one of mine. Probably the last one I ever carried. I went through a bunch of them in the 2000s! Such a fun little slice of history, right? And still usable.
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I'm not sure if I ever posted this Zarp image or not. Was supposed to be for a comic book cover, but I never finished the comic. This one got away from me a bit. I don't love it, but I don't hate it. It's weird enough that I dig it but ghastly enough that it's kind of ugly.
Color drawing of a giant snake worm with a human face in its mouth. It's attacking a little red devil guy in a kind of ruin or temple. Colors are garish and aggressive.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Oh, but if you are into RPGs then you understand the wonder and joy of making random tables of various sizes! We like to use all the dice and do weird things with them. Examples from my game GOZR, including a d88.
d66 Watcher table with stuff like bird, mice, and cultist. d66 Form table with stuff like cyborg, wallcrawler, and dog. d66 familiar table with stuff like spider, pig, and dove. d88 names table with stuff like Plutar, Fig, and Sfinx.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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"Hold long on the repair? This moon gives me the creeps."

"Relax, Cap. Ain't a damn thing livin' on this hunk of green cheese."

"Uh, guys, I'm gettin' a strange reading on the bio scanner..."

#ZSF
Color drawing, space scene. A black woman with guns stands next to an orange ship while a hairy weirdo welds the wing. Two red monkey things are sneaking up on them.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Dice kit ready for Monday night when we start playing #ZSF, my space fantasy game. A nice clean load out. I got that white d6 labeled "60" today and noticed a funny thing... the opposite sides DO NOT add up to 7. What the hell? Is this a cursed bad luck die?? lol
Opposite sides of d6 should = 7. 1/2
Pic of little space-themed dice bag and dice lying next to it. A set of fire-orange polyhedrals. Six black six-sided dice with white pips. A white d6 with black pips. And a white d6 labeled "60", "40", etc.
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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When you see a Marvin you have to draw a Marvin!
Pic of sketchbook page with Marvin the Martian in ink and colored pencil
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Hymla has come to brawl.
Ink drawing of cartoon warrior woman in skimpy armor toting a sword over shoulder. She's doing a cartoon walk and is quite chubby and cute.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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My GM shirt art for Gary Con 2018. The lich king strikes!
#GaryCon #lich
Color drawing in circular design. Lich battling some adventurers.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Aside: the Den sequence from the movie Heavy Metal is exactly the same kind of story. But in that one you start as a skinny nerd and become a beefcake. In aPoM, Carter starts as a war vet and action hero and just gets even more badass. 4/4
Still from the movie. Frame is flanked on all sides by animalistic warriors with guns and axes. Den, the bald beefcake, is in the center with his hand on a a buxom woman's boob. She has on a purple robe. Classic.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM