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Kev Rooney
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Author, illustrator, designer of tabletop miniatures games.
Former archaeologist with the scars to prove it.
https://linktr.ee/cultofnyx
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@itvnews.bsky.social erm, are you sure about that..?
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Great news! Blakewood: Volume 2 is now available as a PDF from DriveThruComics and Globalcomix, and in a rather nice printed edition from DriveThruComics! I'd love you to check them out!
www.drivethrucomics.com/en/publisher...
globalcomix.com/a/cult-of-ny...
#comics #graphicnovels #indiepress
October 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Hey MSN, that's 100 years of sci-fi cinema. Frankenstein was published 207 years ago. Cheers.
September 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Episode 11 of Blakewood, my serialised occult noir graphic novel is here! Will reading it take your mind off things for a few minutes? Almost certainly. Will it brighten your day..? No comment. Hope you’re not claustrophobic…

open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...
A man in suit and tie, lying sideways. One of his eyes is a glowing green gem, for uncertain reasons.
June 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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WIP page from the next Episode of Blakewood. Hand drawn from pencils to washes.

Also, there's less than 2 hours to go on Drive Thru Comics deal of the day - get Blakewood Volume 1 at 40% off!

#comic #comics #graphicnovel #art #illustration #handdrawn

www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5...
A nine panel comic book page of a man in a white suit arguing with an intercom. A nine panel comic book page of a man in a white suit arguing with an intercom. A nine panel comic book page of a man in a white suit arguing with an intercom. A nine panel comic book page of a man in a white suit arguing with an intercom.
April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?
Lord Vetinari of the Discworld, with a small dog.
March 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Had to produce some new spot art for the upcoming collected edition of the first 7 chapters of Blakewood. Pretty pleased with this '40s style poster for a movie that never was...
#art #comics #comic #digitalart #movieposters
March 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Quick play with some Woodcut Brushes I picked up for Affinity from Retro Supply. For use on an upcoming project. Pretty good tools #art
Digital portrait of a woman in a scarf made to look like a woodcut print.
January 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The #filmsky challenge.
Choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just posters… ACTION!
2/20
The poster for John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'. Figures flee a threatening mob through a ruined Manhattan dominated by the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty.
October 21, 2024 at 1:55 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Christopher Stasheff's 'The Warlock In Spite of Himself'. Against an orange-yellow sky, a barbarian on horseback lays into a group of lizard people with a bloody sword. Not a strong indicator of the contents of the novel.
October 21, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Since I'm enjoying the book version so much...
The #filmsky challenge.
Choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just posters… ACTION!
1/20
The poster for James Cameron's The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger poses against a black backdrop and red lasers, in shades and leather jacket, clutching a gun.
October 19, 2024 at 11:14 AM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 (nobody said they had to be consecutive!)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Richard Morgan's novel Market Forces. The author and title in chrome over a faded cityscape with a red palette.
October 19, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Happy #PortfolioDay

I'm a writer and illustrator who prefers media like ink and watercolours, but is perfectly happy in digital too.

To read my latest comic book serial 'Blakewood', please head over to my Substack. It's all available for free!

www.cultofnyx.substack.com
Watercolour portrait of the model Mary Hannah - she smiles in orange sunglasses, with green tinged hair. A page of comic book art from the serial Blakewood. Black and white art with ink washes. Page of comic book art from a strip entitled 'The Truth They Want'. Two fantasy characters - a mage in a red coat and an elf in green - ride through a town arguing about money. A watercolour painting of Thornton Abbey Gatehouse in Lincolnshire.
October 8, 2024 at 8:19 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
October 8, 2024 at 4:07 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely. An abstract design with a faded brownish red palette.
October 6, 2024 at 12:23 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of Nancy A. Collins' Sunglasses after Dark. A female vampire in mirrorshades menaces someone against a night-time industrial cityscape.
October 5, 2024 at 11:29 AM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. Against a black background, a blonde man in period dress cradles a glass of wine.
October 4, 2024 at 8:08 AM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison. A retro-futurist spaceman smirks while examining his finger nails, smoking blaster in the other hand.
October 2, 2024 at 11:18 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of Tim Powers' The Stress of Her Regard. A woodcut style illustration of a Victorian gentleman striding towards the London skyline, against a vaguely turquoise blue background.
October 1, 2024 at 7:37 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of Tourniquet by Kim Lakin-Smith. A man in black spreads his arms, and raises his face to the sky, against an abstract sepia backdrop.
September 30, 2024 at 10:52 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire. The lower half of a face lies horizontally across the bottom of the image, breathing a twisting, yello-orange flame against a black background. Bit on-the-nose, but there we go.
September 29, 2024 at 10:49 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. A fantastic cityscape rises against a rich sunset. Or sunrise. It's actually pretty unclear which direction we're facing. Great book though. Seek it out.
September 29, 2024 at 12:12 AM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
The cover of Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes. A bloody axe sits atop an old, sepia toned map.
September 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. This edition is illustrated by Bernie Wrightson and features his art on the cover, a black-ink hatched portrait of the creature, looking weary and forlorn.
September 26, 2024 at 8:53 PM
kevrooney.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books

#20BookChallenge
Cover art for Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward. A drop of clear liquid sits over and partially distorts the words Only Forward, which are written in upper case chrome, with two small, glowing triangles, like the fast forward button on a remote control, sat beside them.
September 25, 2024 at 10:10 PM