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May 16

aidosaur:

benignkingdom:

Benign Kingdom presents their first collection of themed titles - Capture Creatures, the Exquisite Beast, and Midnite Surprise.

 Capture Creatures - by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson
Inspired by Ken Sugimori’s feat of designing the original 151 Pokemon in a single year Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson have created 151 unique creatures, relations, and descriptors. 

The Exquisite Beast - by Evan Dahm and Yuko Ota
A series of illustrations of a monster evolving traded between Yuko and Evan. All illustrations were done with ink and inkwash. 

Midnite Surprise V2 - by KC Green
A collection of material from KC Green’s art blog - midnitesurprise.tumblr.com this collection features a new collection of work featuring original illustrations, comics, and more. 

If you were not previously aware, these fine books are now available for preorder!  Including-but-not-limited-to my and Evan’s collected Exquisite Beast project!

We worked really hard on designing these books and the Exquisite Beast book is hopefully gonna be really lovely, especially the deluxe edition.  We’re shooting for the deluxe cover to be a three-piece done with black faux leather binding over a cloth cover with a screenprinted design, debossed title area, a pasted-on title card.  With a ribbon bookmark.  I’m ridiculously excited. 8D

And it’s gonna be full of weird monsters and that is cool, too!

Going to reblob this again because Yuko explains it so well. I am super excited about this Exquisite Beast book; it’s been really fun putting together and I think it will turn out great!


May 15

benignkingdom:

Benign Kingdom presents their first collection of themed titles - Capture Creatures, the Exquisite Beast, and Midnite Surprise.

 Capture Creatures - by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson


Inspired by Ken Sugimori’s feat of designing the original 151 Pokemon in a single year Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson have created 151 unique creatures, relations, and descriptors.


 the Exquisite Beast - by Evan Dahm and Yuko Ota


A series of illustrations of a monster evolving traded between Yuko and Evan. All illustrations were done with ink and inkwash.


Midnite Surprise V2 - by KC Green


A collection of material from KC Green’s art blog - midnitesurprise.tumblr.com this collection features a new collection of work featuring original illustrations, comics, and more.

I AM EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Some big new projects for Benign Kingdom, including a book of Yuko and my project The Exquisite Beast!


May 9
benignkingdom:

Hello everyone
We’ll be at TCAF this weekend with tons of fun for everyone! Make sure to stop by tables 218-221!
Hanging out with us all weekend will be:
Evan Dahm - Rice Boy / Vattu
Becky Dreistadt - Tiny Kitten Teeth
KC Green - Gunshow Comic 
Yuko Ota - Johnny Wander
Additionally we have signings lined up as follows: 
Phil McAndrew - PhilinTheBlanks
Saturday from 10:30-11:30Sunday from 4:00 - 5:00
and
Emmy Cicierega - EmmyC
Saturday from 4:00pm-5:00pm

TCAF is one of my favorite conventions and Toronto is one of my favorite cities. If you are in the area, come to the library and say hello this weekend! It is free to attend. xoxo

benignkingdom:

Hello everyone

We’ll be at TCAF this weekend with tons of fun for everyone! Make sure to stop by tables 218-221!

Hanging out with us all weekend will be:

Evan Dahm - Rice Boy / Vattu

Becky Dreistadt - Tiny Kitten Teeth

KC Green - Gunshow Comic

Yuko Ota - Johnny Wander

Additionally we have signings lined up as follows: 

Phil McAndrew - PhilinTheBlanks

Saturday from 10:30-11:30
Sunday from 4:00 - 5:00

and

Emmy Cicierega - EmmyC

Saturday from 4:00pm-5:00pm

TCAF is one of my favorite conventions and Toronto is one of my favorite cities. If you are in the area, come to the library and say hello this weekend! It is free to attend. xoxo


Feb 26
benignkingdom:

Benign Kingdom will have a consulate at the Emerald City Comicon this weekend. You may find it at booths F12-F15.
We’ll have Spring 2012 and Fall 2012 individual art books, collections, and prints. We’ll also have a few advanced copies of the Spring 2013 individual art books.

If you are in Seattle this weekend we would love to see you! Benign Kingdom is also sponsoring the Kracklefest party so that is super cool.
I (Evan) will be at the Consulate with my own books, as per usual. ECCC is a great show and I’m excited that it’ll be Benign Kingdom’s biggest appearance yet!

benignkingdom:

Benign Kingdom will have a consulate at the Emerald City Comicon this weekend. You may find it at booths F12-F15.

We’ll have Spring 2012 and Fall 2012 individual art books, collections, and prints. We’ll also have a few advanced copies of the Spring 2013 individual art books.

If you are in Seattle this weekend we would love to see you! Benign Kingdom is also sponsoring the Kracklefest party so that is super cool.

I (Evan) will be at the Consulate with my own books, as per usual. ECCC is a great show and I’m excited that it’ll be Benign Kingdom’s biggest appearance yet!


Jan 16
benignkingdom:

And just what do we have here?

OH THAT’S RIGHT I GUESS WE GOT ANOTHER OF THESE THINGS COMING UP

benignkingdom:

And just what do we have here?

OH THAT’S RIGHT I GUESS WE GOT ANOTHER OF THESE THINGS COMING UP


Sep 1
Just flat colors for now. It’s that guy from the cover of my Benign Kingdom book! Those, by the way, will be for sale on the Rice Boy site before too long, and we’re working on getting an actual Benign Kingdom site up and working.

Just flat colors for now. It’s that guy from the cover of my Benign Kingdom book! Those, by the way, will be for sale on the Rice Boy site before too long, and we’re working on getting an actual Benign Kingdom site up and working.


Jul 8

Apr 10
grohac:

This is Benign Kingdom Spring 2012.

Art books by Yuko, Becky, KC, and myself. They look great and I guarantee you this is the start of something big…

grohac:

This is Benign Kingdom Spring 2012.

Art books by Yuko, Becky, KC, and myself. They look great and I guarantee you this is the start of something big…


Feb 23

Flowery aliens

This is one of a few images that will show up in my Benign Kingdom art book that have never been published online anywhere! 24 hours remain on the Benign Kingdom Kickstarter, if you’d like to support it and get the books at a discount! Thanks everyone for your support so far; this thing has gone better than we could have hoped!!

This is an alien design for one of several embryonic science fiction ideas in my head. They communicate with their petals in a complex adapted threat display.


Feb 16

Incipient Kingdom

My section of the Benign Kingdom crest poster we put together for the Kickstarter, choppy edges and all. This is meant to go along with my cover.

My friends! One week remains on the Benign Kingdom Kickstarter! We are so far over goal that the books will have Significantly Higher production values! The more over-goal we get, the larger a foundation we have for future projects that we are all very excited about and about which you will also be very excited!!

So if you’re interested in supporting this project and getting the art books at a lower price than they’ll be later, check it out! Thanks everyone so much for your support and for spreading the word on this thing.


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