Lee O'Connor
@leeoconnor.bsky.social
Comic artist, illustrator. 'Power of Five' graphic novel series, Image Comics bits, Heavy Metal mag, RPG art, a Finn McCool graphic novel and all that.
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A 1986 Japanese guide on how to program using the Family BASIC software for the Famicom features many cute illustrations of Mario and Pauline (known as "Lady" in Japan at the time).
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A 1986 Japanese guide on how to program using the Family BASIC software for the Famicom features many cute illustrations of Mario and Pauline (known as "Lady" in Japan at the time).
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A well-balanced society should contain a roughly equal amount of 808- and 909-based music. When there is an excess of music made with 909s, tensions and unpredictability will rise, while in periods of excessive 808 prevalence, that society will experience widespread complacency.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A well-balanced society should contain a roughly equal amount of 808- and 909-based music. When there is an excess of music made with 909s, tensions and unpredictability will rise, while in periods of excessive 808 prevalence, that society will experience widespread complacency.
War of the Worlds martian tripods and war machines battling the ships of the Victorian British Navy out to sea at night, from @theonyxpath.bsky.social's 'Aether' RPG book. H.G. Wells riffs and more weird science besides. Out now!
February 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
War of the Worlds martian tripods and war machines battling the ships of the Victorian British Navy out to sea at night, from @theonyxpath.bsky.social's 'Aether' RPG book. H.G. Wells riffs and more weird science besides. Out now!
Still can't quite believe times like this existed, even though a much younger version of me lived through them.
I've slowly been working on series of article tracing the history of Heavy Gear, the VOTOMS-influenced tabletop game that arrived in 1995 and still exists today. The game's origins lay with a couple of early anime magazines, Protoculture Addicts and Mecha Press.
www.zimmerit.moe/protoculture...
www.zimmerit.moe/protoculture...
Mecha from Montreal, A History of Heavy Gear Ch. I: Protoculture Addicts & Mecha Press
Wearing its VOTOMS influence on its sleeve, the tabletop game Heavy Gear rose to prominence in the late ’90s. It had come, albeit indirectly, out of foundations laid in 1987 by a handful of C…
www.zimmerit.moe
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Still can't quite believe times like this existed, even though a much younger version of me lived through them.
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Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
www.kickstarter.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
HELLO LADIES. Goldgotti the Bronze Age pirate, Sea Person and bit of rough is here to see to your needs. Need any reaving? Sacking? Looting? From Harald Smith's 'Nochet: Serpents & Shadows' book for RuneQuest's Jonstown Compendium.
February 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
HELLO LADIES. Goldgotti the Bronze Age pirate, Sea Person and bit of rough is here to see to your needs. Need any reaving? Sacking? Looting? From Harald Smith's 'Nochet: Serpents & Shadows' book for RuneQuest's Jonstown Compendium.
I have nothing but good things to say about bookshop.org and it pees me off how creators think they need to self-publish through crappy Amazon or nothing, so this sounds really good! Get stuck in, everybody.
Interesting pub news. Direct competitor for Amazon as a self-pub platform.
Bookshop.org is teaming up with Draft2Digital to allow self-publishers to sell ebooks on the Bookshop platform www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
February 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I have nothing but good things to say about bookshop.org and it pees me off how creators think they need to self-publish through crappy Amazon or nothing, so this sounds really good! Get stuck in, everybody.
Superhero pit fight from ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. Because rich people want to ruin everything, even fictional superheroes.
January 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Superhero pit fight from ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. Because rich people want to ruin everything, even fictional superheroes.
Doomed King - Fantasy Fizzogs No. 40 -
Unproven noble peering out of his hall at a year of Interesting Times ahead, that might well mean his untimely death.
From Jonathan Quaife’s Greydog clan campaign for the RuneQuest TTRPG, in the works for The Jonstown Compendium programme.
Unproven noble peering out of his hall at a year of Interesting Times ahead, that might well mean his untimely death.
From Jonathan Quaife’s Greydog clan campaign for the RuneQuest TTRPG, in the works for The Jonstown Compendium programme.
January 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Doomed King - Fantasy Fizzogs No. 40 -
Unproven noble peering out of his hall at a year of Interesting Times ahead, that might well mean his untimely death.
From Jonathan Quaife’s Greydog clan campaign for the RuneQuest TTRPG, in the works for The Jonstown Compendium programme.
Unproven noble peering out of his hall at a year of Interesting Times ahead, that might well mean his untimely death.
From Jonathan Quaife’s Greydog clan campaign for the RuneQuest TTRPG, in the works for The Jonstown Compendium programme.
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Now, let's see who exactly is behind this singular, beloved piece of cultural media
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Now, let's see who exactly is behind this singular, beloved piece of cultural media
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After watching a YouTube video don't forget to rewind it for the next viewer.
January 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
After watching a YouTube video don't forget to rewind it for the next viewer.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Happy Holidays!
Congrats on surviving another year and not going mad.
But... Smashing up a historic symbol of long-cherished democracy with a dancing digger?
Could this be the end of Highly Questionable Santa..?
Congrats on surviving another year and not going mad.
But... Smashing up a historic symbol of long-cherished democracy with a dancing digger?
Could this be the end of Highly Questionable Santa..?
December 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Happy Holidays!
Congrats on surviving another year and not going mad.
But... Smashing up a historic symbol of long-cherished democracy with a dancing digger?
Could this be the end of Highly Questionable Santa..?
Congrats on surviving another year and not going mad.
But... Smashing up a historic symbol of long-cherished democracy with a dancing digger?
Could this be the end of Highly Questionable Santa..?
Scota, the Egyptian princess who sailed to Ireland in a coracle to hang out with Fionn Mac Cumhaill in some of the Celtic myths.
Painted for the wonderful @fionnfolklore.bsky.social’s Fenian art challenge, where artists chose a story from their vast archive of recorded mythology and folktales.
Painted for the wonderful @fionnfolklore.bsky.social’s Fenian art challenge, where artists chose a story from their vast archive of recorded mythology and folktales.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Scota, the Egyptian princess who sailed to Ireland in a coracle to hang out with Fionn Mac Cumhaill in some of the Celtic myths.
Painted for the wonderful @fionnfolklore.bsky.social’s Fenian art challenge, where artists chose a story from their vast archive of recorded mythology and folktales.
Painted for the wonderful @fionnfolklore.bsky.social’s Fenian art challenge, where artists chose a story from their vast archive of recorded mythology and folktales.
Amazing oversize book bursting with art, info & great design, all about being a Pict in 690CE. Is an academic text, an illustrated all-ages book & a TTRPG sourcebook all at once. (Hepped to me via @kierongillen.bsky.social's lap.) carvedinstone.scot
Carved in Stone
A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now!
carvedinstone.scot
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Amazing oversize book bursting with art, info & great design, all about being a Pict in 690CE. Is an academic text, an illustrated all-ages book & a TTRPG sourcebook all at once. (Hepped to me via @kierongillen.bsky.social's lap.) carvedinstone.scot
Alternate lives meeting, one superhero meets two other versions of herself in the ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. We have (L-R); magical girl version, normal superhero version and horror werewolf version, all looking fairly surprised to meet the other.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Alternate lives meeting, one superhero meets two other versions of herself in the ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. We have (L-R); magical girl version, normal superhero version and horror werewolf version, all looking fairly surprised to meet the other.
Now there’s a hole in the sky / and our superhero is trying to close it with her super-powers! From ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’, from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. (While I love comics, I’ve never been a superhero fan, so that’s why I always get a bit giddy whenever I talk about these.)
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Now there’s a hole in the sky / and our superhero is trying to close it with her super-powers! From ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’, from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. (While I love comics, I’ve never been a superhero fan, so that’s why I always get a bit giddy whenever I talk about these.)
The healing power of superheroes with healing powers. A hero from the upstanding ‘Team Tomorrow’ looks after the injured in this piece from the ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social.
Paramedics everywhere: thank you for everything you do.
Paramedics everywhere: thank you for everything you do.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The healing power of superheroes with healing powers. A hero from the upstanding ‘Team Tomorrow’ looks after the injured in this piece from the ‘Aberrant: With Great Power’ RPG book from @theonyxpath.bsky.social.
Paramedics everywhere: thank you for everything you do.
Paramedics everywhere: thank you for everything you do.
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A page from Hellblazer #24, drawn by Ron Tiner.
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A page from Hellblazer #24, drawn by Ron Tiner.
Was told today that my old college tutor & general illustration mentor Ron Tiner had died. Really sad. Rest in peace, Ron. Thank you for everything & passing on the fire.
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Was told today that my old college tutor & general illustration mentor Ron Tiner had died. Really sad. Rest in peace, Ron. Thank you for everything & passing on the fire.
Statue dedicated to a (super)hero, ‘Cestus Pax’ who’s kind of like the Superman of the ‘Aberrant’ RPG world from @theonyxpath.bsky.social.
The ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ (which is a riff on what Uncle Ben from Spider-Man said) book is out now.
The ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ (which is a riff on what Uncle Ben from Spider-Man said) book is out now.
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Statue dedicated to a (super)hero, ‘Cestus Pax’ who’s kind of like the Superman of the ‘Aberrant’ RPG world from @theonyxpath.bsky.social.
The ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ (which is a riff on what Uncle Ben from Spider-Man said) book is out now.
The ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ (which is a riff on what Uncle Ben from Spider-Man said) book is out now.
Hooey war robot makin’ factory from ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ tabletop RPG book, out from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. Yes, I poured all my adolescent robot love of @2000ad.bsky.social’s ABC Warriors, Terminator films and anime mecha into this and then just sorta freewheeled it.
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hooey war robot makin’ factory from ‘Aberrant: With Great Power…’ tabletop RPG book, out from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. Yes, I poured all my adolescent robot love of @2000ad.bsky.social’s ABC Warriors, Terminator films and anime mecha into this and then just sorta freewheeled it.
Crime-busting, super-powered luchador masked Mexican wrestlers from the ‘Abberant: With Great Power….’ tabletop RPG from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. ‘The Justicieros’ here hunt down the cartels, only in this particular kind of mask and tights…
The book’s available in print and digital now.
The book’s available in print and digital now.
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Crime-busting, super-powered luchador masked Mexican wrestlers from the ‘Abberant: With Great Power….’ tabletop RPG from @theonyxpath.bsky.social. ‘The Justicieros’ here hunt down the cartels, only in this particular kind of mask and tights…
The book’s available in print and digital now.
The book’s available in print and digital now.
Artist and designer Tim Denee recounts the lifetime of a thousand year old vampire in a full-colour comic with devastating aplomb: timdenee.com/A-Thousand-Y...
A Thousand Years of Vampire — Tim Denee
The following is an illustrated account of my play-through of Thousand Year Old Vampire, a game by Tim Hutchings. Everything here happened following the rules of...
timdenee.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Artist and designer Tim Denee recounts the lifetime of a thousand year old vampire in a full-colour comic with devastating aplomb: timdenee.com/A-Thousand-Y...
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i think about this tweet every single day
August 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i think about this tweet every single day