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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Plenty of time to head to the bookstore for gifts! I mean, giving ANY book is the best idea!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Dive in and follow the little lights!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The way is NOT shut! Pre-Order now!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Perfect for the Macabre Literature Lovers in your life!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Forth, Pre-Orderlingas! Oaths you have taken!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Pre-Orderssssss are open, Preciousssss! Available where you get your books, and remember to support your local bookshop!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Big news! My Inktober 2024 Tolkien/Gorey mash up is gonna be a book! Pre-order links coming soon! Gah!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Wizard Wednesday! I think it helps explain people’s questions about “why didn’t they just use the Eagles” if you think of them as pissed off New Yorkers. #tolkien #comics #webcomic #eagles #glorfindel

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Wizard Wednesday! Look, the Eagles are very busy. Don’t expect them to solve all your problems. #tolkien #comics #webcomic #wizard #eagle #glorfindel

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ABJ Glassworks @glassandsnacks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My Fantasy Collection is reopen for new orders! #smallbusiness #stainedglass #stainedglassart #fantasyart #lotrart

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Wizard Wednesday! A brief interlude at Barad-Dûr continues. I suspect we will be back here in the future. Loving these guys too much! Let me know if you’re enjoying these comedic Sauron/Mouth Adventures!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Wizard Wednesday! A couple months ago, I did a comic of Sauron struggling to write the perfect thing to engrave into the One Ring. Recently I did a live reading for charity of the “Mouth of Sauron” scene in “Return of the King” one of my favorites. Toss in a little “Blackadder” and this came out!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wizard Wednesday! Everyone has a special talent!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All I want from the upcoming baseball season is either a World Series win for the Diamondbacks or the Mets, or that the Dodgers fail to even make the playoffs. Any of those would make it one of the best sports years ever.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thank goodness we finally have a president willing to stand up against Big Paper Straw and the terrible scourge of trying to protect the environment!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wizard Wednesday! Even Sauron would fear the power of pastry!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Art share! What a cool idea. I hope to do a comic a week as best I can and draw more in general! Your turn! Tagging: @rickschmitz.bsky.social @lucasturnbloom.bsky.social @thistlemoon.bsky.social

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wizard Wednesday! Apologies in advance to the Glorfindel fans! I love him but couldn’t resist the comedy!

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Jim Di Bartolo @jimdibartolo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

F*CK BILLIONAIRES, my graphic novel (in the works for 2 years) is now LIVE on Kickstarter!! Link in the attached post AND in my bio. Please help me spread the word (reposts appreciated & NEEDED!)

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Glorfindel arrives in Middle Earth in the Second Age, and he looks marvelous!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Best lead off hitter ever, gone way too soon. RIP Rickey.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Let’s see…continue the soul crushing activity of looking for a senior level video/graphic design job or any job at this point, or smear honey all over myself and walk into a pack of starving bears. Hmmmm. Gimme a second.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Saw this go by and, well….yeah. Let’s go, Team Cockroach!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The boys are enjoying vacation. Hope you are too!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What is this “leftover stuffing” I hear about after Thanksgiving? You’re telling me people have some LEFT? What madness is this?

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I guarantee the NFL “Baltimore Kravens” spot for the upcoming “Kraven the Hunter” movie is better than the film is going to be. I take no joy in this.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

These are the kinds of things that go thru an idiot cartoonist’s mind at 2am.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I had a blast doing Inktober, but it took all my time and now my comic buffer is gone! Mori and Róm will return on January 1st!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s a good thing Ripley is there to guard the family van as I put gas in it. There are so many interlopers and fiends who DARE to come within 100 feet of us minding their own business. The audacity!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Indeed, we have come now to the end! A twofer with Gandalf the Grey and the balrog upon the peak of Zirakzigil. The response to these has exceeded my wildest dreams and has inspired me to seek publishing options. Thank you all for sharing these!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! This scene and the one after always destroys me in the movies. The late Bernard Hill’s performance as a grieving father is among the best in the trilogy. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing #theoden #lordoftherings

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! The one letter that I had to stretch to get! But, I think this is the most “Goreyesque” of them all. That “moment before the disaster” feel, and no motion lines ever, like a high shutter speed photo! Plus, Gimli’s axe is fun to draw! #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! An iconic moment, to be sure! Poor Witch King…he needed to be more observant! #tolkien #edwardgorey #lordoftherings #nazgul #eowyn #meriadocbrandybuck #gashlycrumbtinies

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Time to break the hearts of people who didn’t realize the skeleton holding the book at Balin’s Tomb in the Mines of Moria was Ori, the sweet youngish dwarf from The Hobbit. A true fellow bookworm to the end! #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #comics #minesofmoria

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Ungoliant, destroyer of the two Trees of Valinor, mother of Shelob, brought down only by her need to consume everything, even herself! #tolkien #edwardgorey #shelob #lordoftherings #ungoliant #ink #inktober

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Poor Túrin Turambar; it was just one thing after another for him, ending up impaling himself on an evil sword. But legend has it he’ll be back to one day deliver the killing blow to Morgoth! #inktober #edwardgorey #tolkien #ink #lordoftherings #turinturambar

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Saruman is eventually betrayed by Gríma Wormtongue, and Saruman’s immortal spirit tries to head West, but is rejected and his essence scattered away. A fitting but really moving ending to a once great wizard.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Théoden King always one of my favorite characters in the books and the movies (Thank you, Bernard Hill). #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Poor Númenor…sometimes beach front property isn’t the best. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #drawing #numenor #ringsofpower

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! One of my favorite things about the books is the appendices where Tolkien talks about many things including what happened to characters after the main story. The lives of the hobbits and their eventual fates, like Pippin and Merry, was a personal favorite.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! I really enjoyed how “The Rings of Power” started to give a glimpse into the Orcs. There’s a real sadness behind their origins and history. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #ink #inkdrawing #orcs

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! A deep dive into the Legendarium of Tolkien! The Elf-maid Nimrodel, River-dweller, true spirit of nature. The waters of the river that bears her name by the Misty Mountains are said to have healing powers. Another evocative image from the Professor.

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Morgoth, the original “big bad” in Tolkien lore, is eventually slain in The Last Battle by Túrin, the man he cursed, but the image of him plotting and stewing in the Void was so striking to me. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #gashlycrumbtinies #inkdrawing #morgoth

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Bonus Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkien! This was my original drawing for “J,” as there are NO Tolkien characters that start with J! So I had to fudge it a little. I’m so glad I came up with the other one about “J. R. R.” because it’s much better thematically. But I DO love this drawing, gotta say!

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Ahh, Gimli, the only dwarf ever allowed passage to the Undying Lands! The friendship of these two was one of my favorite things about the books. #inktober #tolkien #edwardgorey #inktober #inkdrawing #legolas #gimli

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The Wizard Blues @talltaleradio.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Inktober Gashlycrumb Tolkiens! Fun fact: there are NO Tolkien characters that begin with “J!” I came up with a different one than this at first (which I’ll post later ‘cause I’m proud of the drawing) but just the other day I thought of this “J” character, and, well, it was perfect.

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