Caustic is an artist, author, game designer, singer, and avid TTRPG gamer - a true renaissance weirdo! He shamelessly steals inspiration for his visual work from the eldritch Sword & Sorcery tomes, crusty European comics, the Occult, cheesy horror, fantasy and sci-fi movies, loud music (mainly metal), and a ton of other classic and contemporary artists and authors. Whenever he is not drawing, Caustic is playing music with his band or tinkering something TTRPG-related. Caustic’s visual style can be described as vibrant and eclectic. All of his work is driven by emotion, honesty, and purity, whether it stems from a dark place or not.

Jeremy Hush draws from a wealth of sources and influences. An avid world traveler, and a recognized initiate of the heavy metal and punk scenes, Hush has been creating work for zines and bands for years. His work is haunting and beautiful, wild and chaotic, dark and saturated, but entirely unique. Influenced by the linear styles of 19th century prints and drawings, Hush’s pieces feel like Grimm fairy tales, in the most visceral way possible. They are raw but meticulous, conveying both and ancient solemnity, and the guttural impulses of a nightmare.

1d10+5 is the alias of a mysterious academic, writer, game-designer, and musician based in Leeds, UK. Like many others, the pandemic brought 1d10+5 back to the loves of his youth: RPGs and fantasy boardgames. During his early teens he was an obsessive solo gamer, staying up way too late, secretively rolling the dice out of parental earshot to play classics like Games Workshop’s Chainsaw Warrior and a truly labyrinthine Advanced Hero Quest campaign. Getting back into D&D during the pandemic was the gateway to harder stuff. A fully-fledged infatuation with Mörk Borg combined with a predilection for solo adventuring meant that Sölitary Defilement, BASILISK!, and Painflail were inevitabilities. Stylistically he tries to make nods to the grimdark, satyrical, class-conscious black humour of olde Games Workshop stuff. Beyond writing, 1d10+5 has also started a dungeon synth-adjacent musical project called Dark Valley.

Max Moon creates objects and text at the meeting place of play and magical thinking. As a classically trained master of none, Max is a game designer, educator, writer, printmaker, musician, and blasphemer. Regardless of media, their work seeks to erode the rational mind fertilizing it for imaginative play.

Arik Moonhawk Roper attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1991-1995 specializing in cartooning, illustration, and screen printing. He began his early career primarily working with bands creating album art for cds and records for which he developed a devoted following. He soon moved into storyboarding for commercial and ad agencies, then onward into animation design, book and magazine illustration, visual design for music industry artists, and art direction for creative groups and game companies. Roper’s work encompasses a diverse field of design and distinct style, ranging from black and white illustration, to meticulous lettering and logo design, to rich abstract psychedelic color and landscapes that often seem to exist in their own universe. The imagery springs from the depths of a fertile imagination, invoking psychedelic visions, ancient dreams, and idyllic natural environments. With an interest in mythology, consciousness, psychology, religion and other timeless subjects, Roper mixes the light and the dark within his art to reveal imagery which is at once strangely unique, distantly familiar and always soaked with an earnestly fantastic aesthetic.

Flaming Hand Publications: Asterism, Ekphrastic Beasts

I had no idea what being a professional artist would hold for me when I quit my job in the middle of the economic meltdown of 2008. I knew that if I survived that, I’d be able to survive what it took to be an artist.

Illustration, painting, installations, sculptures and gallery shows around the world soon followed, as my anxiety ridden stubbornness kicked in to high gear. Commercial work for Warner Bros, Adult Swim, Vans, Apple, Quentin Tarantino, Fender guitars, and Juxtapoz built a client list to balance out the psychedelic, graphic experimentations I became known for. I use every opportunity to expand into new medias as cultivating the unknown parts of myself and colalborating with others who are searching as well.

Thankfully my professional relationships (usually born of friendships) led to writing and directing music videos, live animation and commercials for Adult Swim and Fender guitars. Writing, acting and production naturally followed. Film making and animation brought me into collaboration and connectivity with people that enriched my life in ways that being an isolated painter never could. The satisfaction of working with others and getting to appreciate their gifts as we create, is infinitely more inspiring than working alone. Filmmaking and narration is an organic outcome of my search to grow the territory of my creative self.

Janaka Stucky is an author, publisher, lifelong RPG player, and founder of the Chaotic Good Dance Party. The publisher of indie press Black Ocean, he is also the author of a few books. His work has been featured in VICE, The Believer, BOMB Magazine, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He teaches classes on ritual and the creative process—and has spoken about the occult at NYU's Occult Humanities Conference, Necronomicon in Providence, and the Texts & Traditions Colloquium in Seattle.