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Aegeon 6 is out!

A photo showing Aegeon issue 6 with a cigar and a lighter

Aegeon 6 is out, once again featuring five of my illustrations.

Regret

A digital pen & ink drawing showing a sleeping man connected to abstract machinery, and behind him a long spiral spaceship stretching into the distance, surrounded by nautiluses. Above the ship, there's a woman drawn in the same pose as Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, with a strand of DNA behind her. The far background is an image of a galaxy.

This is my favourite illustration from Aegeon 5, for a far-future science fiction short story called ‘Regret’. If you agree, why don’t you take a peek at the appropriate shop page.

‘Vjarn and the Sword of Ghebli’ is a fantasy story reminiscent of the first epics and legends of antiquity. The demi-god character Vjarn is given the task to steal a mythical sword guarded by an immensely powerful frog-like water elemental, who rules over his own artificial ocean the size of a solar system. No single-sentence description will do this story justice, you’ll just have to read it in Aegeon 5.

Atlantica: The Tuna Trade

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

Digital pen & ink drawing showing two giant severed tuna heads hanging from chains, with a man holding a gun hiding in one of the open mouths of the tuna heads and two guards in steampunk diver armor passing by.

In this installment of the ongoing Atlantica series, our intrepid hero loses his precious megatuna herd, and exacts bloody revenge on the culprits. This original version of the image is slightly different from the one printed in the book, as that one was altered to accommodate the story title. Prints can be had in the shop.

Crashland!

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

Digital pen & ink illustration showing an astronaut in a space suit standing on a beach, facing his plant-like clone which grew on a thick stalk sprouting from the ground.

The lead story from Aegeon 5, ‘Crashland!’ tells of an astronaut crash-landing on an alien planet, and encountering some very weird plant life and environmental hazards.

Once again I’ve saved the in-progress images, allowing me to create a slide show.

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Aegeon 5 is out!

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

Digital pen & ink illustration showing a man in a business suit, wearing glasses and holding a cell phone, crawling through a narrow tunnel with walls covered in tentacle or snake-like carvings.

Aegeon 5 is out, featuring five illustrations by yours truly. The one above, called “Darkness,” is probably my least favourite of the bunch, but still came out pretty well. I’ll be posting the other ones in the following days.

I’m Not Sure Albrecht Dürer Would Approve

Digital, Illustration / Michael

A digital ink illustration showing archangel St. Michael with the head of a Rooster, fighting a dragon. — Today I finished the illustration I intend to use for my ads in Aegeon. It’s an homage to Abrecht Dürer’s “St. Michael Fighting the Dragon”, but I’ve put a rooster’s head on the saint (my surname means Rooster in Italian) and extended / changed the creature’s tail.

The Tesla Gambit

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

A digital pen and ink composite illustration showing close ups of Nicola Tesla, holding a strange cylindrical device, and an old Mongolian man. Below the close ups, the drawing shows both men engaged in combat by electricity.

My fourth and final illustration for the Christmas special issue of Aegeon. It shows Nicola Tesla and and Mr. Achujam Ganbaatar, a Mongolian wizard, engaged in a duel by electricity. I’ve drawn it in about 14 hours for the short story “The Tesla Gambit” by Brendan Heard. Should you be interested in procuring a print, you can do so in the usual place.

The Ghost Hunter’s Gun

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

A group of warrior monks / exorcists standing in front of an armored truck, with Paris' arc de triomphe in the background.

My third and possibly the weirdest illustration for Aegeon Issue 4. This one is for the short story The Ghost Hunter’s Gun by Jason Lupus and Brendan Heard. As usual, prints and other merch are available in the shop.

Ferrand PI: The Holiday

Aegeon, Digital, Illustration / Michael

Digital pen and ink illustration showing Ferrand PI leaning against a wall on a dirty and decaying futuristic city street.

Ferrand PI is a dystopian, near future series written by Brendan Heard. In the latest installment, while pursuing a suspect, Ferrand suddenly finds himself in the wrong part of town—the Stupid Block. Don’t make the same mistake, visit my shop instead.