From Costume Designer to Illustrator and Author: An Artist’s Journey 

Glam Reaper

From Costume Designer to Illustrator and Author: An Artist’s Journey
by Bill Crisafi 

My path from artist to author is something that wasn’t in my consciousness at all, but it ended up appearing at a time when I needed it most. I went from starting in fashion school and ultimately finding that general fine arts was a better fit, navigating the early days of Instagram to amassing over 300,000 followers and creating a brand using my illustrations as a guiding force. That path eventually led me to write my first book, The Glam Reaper’s Guide to Slaying, which is essentially an adult children’s book meant to bitch slap you into remembering you’re a fabulous diva.

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“It’s a Cursed Game”: Kyle Winkler on “The Ship of Death”

Cover art for The Ship of Death

I met Kyle Winkler at VoidCon last year, where I picked up his novel Enter the Peerless, a work of heady cosmic horror. This fall brings with it the release of his new book The Ship of Death, a book about a board game that might also be a vessel by which uncanny presences can enter the contemporary world; it’s also told through a series of found documents. As someone with a fondness for board games myself, the combination was irresistible and the novel wholly compelling. I chatted with Winkler about the roots of the origins of this novel, subverting horror tropes, and the challenge of creating found documents.

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Six Ridiculous Questions: Alex Behr

Alex Behr

The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality and attain the higher consciousness we all crave. (Eh, not really, but it sounded good there for a minute.) It’s just. Who knows? The ridiculousness and question bits, I guess. Why six? Assonance, baby, assonance.

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