Horned Helm Studios Presents #1 w/ New Cover!

 Hi! Wow, this blog is really neglected. Anyway, I wanted to promote my comic book, Horned Helm Studios Presents #1. 

This current edition has a brand new, exclusive cover. Horned Helm Studios Presents is an oversized, full color, anthology-style comic book featuring a variety of stories from sci-fi to fantasy and more! Plus: meet the adventurous and mysterious, Battle Skull!! Get in on the ground floor for his adventures, I've got big plans for him. 

Anyway, here is the link to where you can order a print copy:  https://www.comicfleamarket.com/horned-helm-studios-presents-1/?showHidden=true

Feel free to order a ton, share your opinions, spread the word, recommend it to all your friends and relatives haha. 

Thank you!!

-Tom 

New YouTube Channel for Original Music

 Aside from drawing, songwriting is one of my creative pursuits. I have been writing songs for years and I recently started having some of them produced/performed. I started a YouTube channel to showcase this stuff. Check it out! Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKX2EWhn8T0ISpdm00J0gzQ

-Tom 

THANK YOU!

 I wanted to post and say "thank you" to everyone out there who picked up a copy of Horned Helm Studios Presents #1. I am sincerely thankful to everyone who took a chance and supported this work. I hope you enjoyed reading it. 

Thank you to Grasshopper's Comics, Royal Collectibles and Best Comics for carrying my book. These shops providing their platform for my first major self publishing venture means a great deal to me and truly helped me reach a wider audience with this release. 

If you happen upon this blog and you want to let me know what you thought of Horned Helm Studios Presents #1 you can e-mail your feedback/questions to HornedHelmStudios@gmail.com

Additionally, the last few copies of the book that I have in my possession are available on ebay at this link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Horned-Helm-Studios-Presents-1-Signed-Comic-Book-w-Trading-Card-and-Sticker/133682937048?hash=item1f201fbcd8:g:YbsAAOSwSHlgQSj7

I am hard at work on more material for my creator-owned ventures under the Horned Helm Studios banner. HHSP #2 is in the works. Battle Skull will also have his own solo comic book series, coming soon. Lots of fun stuff cooking.  

Thank you for visiting!

-Tom 

OK, this time I am serious about returning to using this blog more regularly...

 Well, the technocracy we live in is pushing me more and more toward reducing my presence on social media platforms. Generally, the toxicity on these platforms far outweighs any positivity to be garnered. Additionally, these other platforms have stolen my attention from this blog. I have always enjoyed blogging and it bugs me that this blog sits here gathering dust. I have virtually no audience here but what does that really matter? This space is like a journal and a fun place to share artwork, musings, creative project updates etc. The best part is that I am not exposed to the thoughts, agendas, biases, curated realities and vitriol of thousands of other people. Blogger does not appear to be as interested in censorship and controlling the general public as some of the other platforms. I'm going to claim ignorance of Blogger's larger owners so that I can continue to enjoy this platform in peace.   

I'm returning to my blog. I would also like to build a website for my art and creative works. A website is long overdue. Social media is toxic. I may continue to use it in careful, moderate ways but overall I wish to distance myself from it as much as possible. 

Oh yeah, I published a comic book!! Check out the promo flyer below. E-mail HornedHelmStudios@gmail.com to secure your copy!! Thank you. 

-Tom 

Illustration for Inverse.com!

 This is pretty cool. I was hired by Inverse.com to do some illustrations for a few of their online articles. The first one has been "published"! You can view it here: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/best-antiheroes-comics-tv-movie-video-games

This marks my first real published work outside of my own self publishing ventures. Very cool!

Here's a better look at the art, plus the pencil sketch that it all started with. This was a lot of fun to work on and I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to do this:

Hope you dig it! Thank you very much for visiting. More art and news soon. Horned Helm Studios #1 is nearing release!!! Stay tuned, thank you. 

-Tom 

Old School Doodle Post

 This is how my earliest posts on this blog used to be. I'm bringing it back, baby. Really just doing this to test different methods of getting artwork onto the blog. This time around I took photos of sketches using my phone, e-mailed them to myself and posted them here. This seems to work pretty well. Hopefully the quality on these images is not too low....or too high for that matter...have to find the sweet spot. Anyway, enjoy the scribbles!! 

Side note: Progress on Horned Helm Studios Presents #1 is moving along very well. So excited to get this book into your hands! Big announcements just around the corner, stay tuned. Thank you! 

Another Massive Lapse in Blog Posts BIG STUFF COMING

 I am sincerely going to try to post here more often. I really do prefer the format of a blog to Instagram and other platforms. The other platforms are just so darn convenient and they reach more people. Anyway, lots of awesome stuff brewing right now. 

My first major self-published full color comic book work in years is nearly ready for publication!! The book is called Horned Helm Studios Presents. It will be an anthology book collecting short stories showcasing various intellectual properties of mine. The flagship property being Battle Skull. The book will feature the first, official, full color comic book appearance of Battle Skull and several other characters of mine. You're going to want to slab and CGC this one hahaa. 

I do not have a firm street date for the book at the moment but it is close. I am going to say that realistically we are looking at fall 2020. Good news, we are pretty much in fall 2020 right now. So, yes, this book is coming sooner than later. I will post preview art and try to hype this thing a bit more substantially as soon as I know I am going to have copies in hand within a specific period of time. 

Thank you to anyone who stops by this blog and bothers to read this stuff. I realize this is a particularly boring post featuring no art. I will remedy that soon!

-Tom