Alec Worley
@agentofweird.bsky.social
Award-lacking writer of comics + fiction (Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Warhammer).
Curator of Agent of Weird, https://alecworley.substack.com, exploring the craft of fantasy, horror and sci-fi for readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators.
Curator of Agent of Weird, https://alecworley.substack.com, exploring the craft of fantasy, horror and sci-fi for readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Northern Rustback, from my book Savage Strangehollow. Pre-orders open again in January (books will ship end of Feb at earliest). If you want to be notified when the shop opens then join my newsletter here: buff.ly/ET9Po9M
#dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart
#dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Northern Rustback, from my book Savage Strangehollow. Pre-orders open again in January (books will ship end of Feb at earliest). If you want to be notified when the shop opens then join my newsletter here: buff.ly/ET9Po9M
#dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart
#dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart
First few pages of script + finished art (by @stazjohnson.bsky.social) for the new Hawk the Slayer one-shot out now from @2000ad.bsky.social (Had to cut the title page for space. Check out my Substack for a fuller version.) Enjoy, if you like that sort of thing…
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
First few pages of script + finished art (by @stazjohnson.bsky.social) for the new Hawk the Slayer one-shot out now from @2000ad.bsky.social (Had to cut the title page for space. Check out my Substack for a fuller version.) Enjoy, if you like that sort of thing…
Hark at this ghastly London ragamuffin telling spooky Christmas stories in a daft voice with authentically Dickensian production values!
No reading required!
Gawd bless us, everyone!
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
No reading required!
Gawd bless us, everyone!
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
Audio of Weird: A Clutch of Christmas Ghost Stories
Snuggle down, drink up and listen in to a read-aloud of ‘Rats’ by M.R. James and ‘Over Before Christmas’ by Alec Worley
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December 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Hark at this ghastly London ragamuffin telling spooky Christmas stories in a daft voice with authentically Dickensian production values!
No reading required!
Gawd bless us, everyone!
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
No reading required!
Gawd bless us, everyone!
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
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Drew a fucking massive transformer for the Battersea power station shop.
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Drew a fucking massive transformer for the Battersea power station shop.
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I am most often asked "how?". How does my writing mimic so closely to that of Robert E. Howard? Here is my answer. It is the mechanics and the mindset, distilled from 41 years of trial-and-error.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am most often asked "how?". How does my writing mimic so closely to that of Robert E. Howard? Here is my answer. It is the mechanics and the mindset, distilled from 41 years of trial-and-error.
open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
It's all kicking off at the Lamberto Bava Cine-Pit in Mega-City One!
The place is overrun by movie-goers possessed by demonic slop, while Anderson searches for the missing movie-director who's key to it all!
Long-time Anderson fans may also recognise a familiar face(s)...
The place is overrun by movie-goers possessed by demonic slop, while Anderson searches for the missing movie-director who's key to it all!
Long-time Anderson fans may also recognise a familiar face(s)...
Judge Dredd Megazine 487 is out on 17th December, featuring ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION: HELL NIGHT AT THE CINE-PIT, Part Three by:
📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
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📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It's all kicking off at the Lamberto Bava Cine-Pit in Mega-City One!
The place is overrun by movie-goers possessed by demonic slop, while Anderson searches for the missing movie-director who's key to it all!
Long-time Anderson fans may also recognise a familiar face(s)...
The place is overrun by movie-goers possessed by demonic slop, while Anderson searches for the missing movie-director who's key to it all!
Long-time Anderson fans may also recognise a familiar face(s)...
@stazjohnson.bsky.social is a top bloke (see pic for details) and we've got a Hawk the Slayer one-shot (well, it's really a Crow the Machine-Gun Bowman one-shot) out in the Christmas Prog. Twang!!
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
@stazjohnson.bsky.social is a top bloke (see pic for details) and we've got a Hawk the Slayer one-shot (well, it's really a Crow the Machine-Gun Bowman one-shot) out in the Christmas Prog. Twang!!
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COVER REVEAL: NAUGHTY OR NICE?
Dredd knows if you've been bad or good in the 100-page 2000 AD Prog 2463, out 17th December with a cover by Greg Staples!
Get this cover as a print: https://bit.ly/3Ek2djN
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Download the app: https://bit.ly/2RAR0ms
Dredd knows if you've been bad or good in the 100-page 2000 AD Prog 2463, out 17th December with a cover by Greg Staples!
Get this cover as a print: https://bit.ly/3Ek2djN
Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2Ws04uc
Download the app: https://bit.ly/2RAR0ms
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
COVER REVEAL: NAUGHTY OR NICE?
Dredd knows if you've been bad or good in the 100-page 2000 AD Prog 2463, out 17th December with a cover by Greg Staples!
Get this cover as a print: https://bit.ly/3Ek2djN
Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2Ws04uc
Download the app: https://bit.ly/2RAR0ms
Dredd knows if you've been bad or good in the 100-page 2000 AD Prog 2463, out 17th December with a cover by Greg Staples!
Get this cover as a print: https://bit.ly/3Ek2djN
Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2Ws04uc
Download the app: https://bit.ly/2RAR0ms
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It's the welcome class for my ELVTR Comic art course tonight! eeeee!! Gonna get NARRATIVE. Awwww, yeah.
*nervous* ^_^
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
*nervous* ^_^
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
Comic Art Course: Create Your First Professional Comic | ELVTR UK
Master the fundamental principles of sequential art, figure drawing, and character emotion with Emma Vieceli, who worked with DC Comics, Dark Horse, Titan Comics, Marvel, and more 🔴 Elevate your skill...
uk.elvtr.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It's the welcome class for my ELVTR Comic art course tonight! eeeee!! Gonna get NARRATIVE. Awwww, yeah.
*nervous* ^_^
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
*nervous* ^_^
uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...
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I've rebranded the part of my website where I write about genre fiction to make my project a bit more explicit: "My main focus is on fantasy fiction and my goal is to [...] tell a fuller history of how fantasy developed, matured, and thrived in the mass market paperback era of the 1960s–1990s."
Genre Fantasies
Genre Fantasies is an ongoing blog on the cultural history of American fantasy, horror, and sf. My main focus is on fantasy fiction and my goal is to recover the Great Unread of the genre and tell …
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December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I've rebranded the part of my website where I write about genre fiction to make my project a bit more explicit: "My main focus is on fantasy fiction and my goal is to [...] tell a fuller history of how fantasy developed, matured, and thrived in the mass market paperback era of the 1960s–1990s."
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From the making of ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972): Cast and extras dining during the production in Century City (which at the time was a futuristic corner of Los Angeles; now, it’s just kind of a weird anachronism of an aborted future).
Photograph by Ralph Crane.
Photograph by Ralph Crane.
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
From the making of ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972): Cast and extras dining during the production in Century City (which at the time was a futuristic corner of Los Angeles; now, it’s just kind of a weird anachronism of an aborted future).
Photograph by Ralph Crane.
Photograph by Ralph Crane.
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Pneumonia has hit me hard. Over the past two months, I've lost almost $20k of work, and by the time we get to January, I'll only have three projects left.
Editors/writers/artists/publishers: if you're staffing new projects over the coming months, PLEASE keep me in mind as your letterer 🙏
Editors/writers/artists/publishers: if you're staffing new projects over the coming months, PLEASE keep me in mind as your letterer 🙏
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Pneumonia has hit me hard. Over the past two months, I've lost almost $20k of work, and by the time we get to January, I'll only have three projects left.
Editors/writers/artists/publishers: if you're staffing new projects over the coming months, PLEASE keep me in mind as your letterer 🙏
Editors/writers/artists/publishers: if you're staffing new projects over the coming months, PLEASE keep me in mind as your letterer 🙏
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If you're not reading NESS, now is the time, the moment, THE HOUR!! RAAAAGGH ⚔️⚔️⚔️
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙♀️
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you're not reading NESS, now is the time, the moment, THE HOUR!! RAAAAGGH ⚔️⚔️⚔️
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Here comes the sun!
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Here comes the sun!
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REVIEW: New Edge Sword and Sorcery Issues 5-7 www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-new-e... I have an essay about Leigh Brackett in issue 7
REVIEW: New Edge Sword and Sorcery Issues 5-7
New Edge highlights talent from all sorts of backgrounds in an effort to celebrate the fun, exciting parts of S&S
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
REVIEW: New Edge Sword and Sorcery Issues 5-7 www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-new-e... I have an essay about Leigh Brackett in issue 7
Comparing the literary technique of steel-upon-steel from two fantasy fiction titans: #Conan by #RobertEHoward and Logen Ninefingers from Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. #writingcommunity #booksky
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December 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Comparing the literary technique of steel-upon-steel from two fantasy fiction titans: #Conan by #RobertEHoward and Logen Ninefingers from Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. #writingcommunity #booksky
alecworley.substack.com/p/who-dies-f...
alecworley.substack.com/p/who-dies-f...
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Any International folks who want anything from my shop by xmas had better get their bottoms in gear! Eu is already too late, but the rest of you if you get it in ASAP (before Monday) you may still get it in time! www.emilyhare.co.uk
#supoortsmallbusinesses #art #xmasgifts #christmasshopping
#supoortsmallbusinesses #art #xmasgifts #christmasshopping
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Any International folks who want anything from my shop by xmas had better get their bottoms in gear! Eu is already too late, but the rest of you if you get it in ASAP (before Monday) you may still get it in time! www.emilyhare.co.uk
#supoortsmallbusinesses #art #xmasgifts #christmasshopping
#supoortsmallbusinesses #art #xmasgifts #christmasshopping
Hark at me banging on about sword-fights in fantasy fiction over on 'Agent of Weird': alecworley.substack.com/p/who-dies-f...
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Hark at me banging on about sword-fights in fantasy fiction over on 'Agent of Weird': alecworley.substack.com/p/who-dies-f...
Learning what works on the page when it comes to writing fantasy fight-scenes. Contains mild peril.
Who Dies First? Conan the Barbarian vs. The Bloody Nine
Fantasy writers, learn how to keep your fight scenes sharp with two classic examples of sword and sorcery
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December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Learning what works on the page when it comes to writing fantasy fight-scenes. Contains mild peril.
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The other day @davilorium.bsky.social said: you never drew Red Sonja, it would be cool in your style 🧙🏻♀️ Was David right? 🤨 Reel of the process soon ⚔️
#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart
#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The other day @davilorium.bsky.social said: you never drew Red Sonja, it would be cool in your style 🧙🏻♀️ Was David right? 🤨 Reel of the process soon ⚔️
#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart
#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart
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Judge Dredd Megazine 486 is out on 19th November, featuring ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION: HELL NIGHT AT THE CINE-PIT, Part Two by:
📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc
📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Judge Dredd Megazine 486 is out on 19th November, featuring ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION: HELL NIGHT AT THE CINE-PIT, Part Two by:
📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc
📝 Script: @agentofweird.bsky.social
✏️ Art: Ben Willsher
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc