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A Blog by author, illustrator, and cartoonist Ethan M. Aldridge

Drawings from The Cursed Catacombs, a solo role-playing game where you play as the last living apprentice to a legendary wizard, sent out on a final deadly errand.

If pick-your-path novels and fantasy RPGs are you thing, the book will be on shelves this summer, and you can preorder now (preferably at your local bookstore)!

Several years ago, when things were bad, as they are now, I made a comic about art and community in the face of hate. Today feels like a time to reshare.

I'm excited to announce my new project. Sable: A Ghost Story is an ongoing, long-form webcomic that will begin posting later this year. It's gothic, it's hand-drawn, and it's about talking animals.

I've just shared a twelve page teaser comic with Patrons! Once the main story gets going, pages will be shared much earlier there, so please consider joining now!

Childhood can be scary.

A collection of some of my hand-drawn horror looping animations!

Oh hey! This person wrote a great middle grade book called Deephaven! Gothic story about a nonbinary kid who goes to an isolated boarding school that definitely totally does NOT have any weird horrific secrets in the forbidden wing!

I suggested it for my book club a few months back and we all really enjoyed it. If y'all love the animations here, the book is also illustrated like this. (In fact I think the top and the third are depictions of the main character)

Read it!

Thanks so much for reading!

For those interested, there's also a second mystery novel in the series coming this September. As the previous poster said, they're all illustrated in this style. If queer, gothic, all-ages horror is your thing, check it out!

Hourly comics day 2025! A pretty typical day for me.

If you'd like to hear more about that new project teased at the end, Patrons have already seen a bit with MUCH more to come. Stay tuned . . .

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