Announcing Tarot Goblinko by Sean Äaberg

Hello Eaten By Ducks! For my next feat of artistic & occult strength I will be producing a Tarot Deck - the Tarot Goblinko by Sean Äaberg. I have been doing a new card for each issue of PORK magazine that has come out recently where my wife Katie has been picking the cards & I've been drawing them in order. It has been a very intense series so far & I have found myself resonating with the tarot in a way that I have never previously. I will be putting the same amount of energy into the Major & Minor Arcana. We will be launching a kickstarter on Friday the 13th this April to get this project funded & so I can have the time to really give my all to each of the 78+ Tarot Cards. We'll be shooting for an end goal of having the deck produced in blacklight reactive ink. Here are some of the cards I've done so far.  

 Everyone who backs the Tarot Goblinko kickstarter on the first day will get the Early Bird card as a kickstarter exlclusive!

You can get posters & the issues of PORK with these covers from the GOBLINKO MEGAMALL.

MY GOTT! DUNGEON DEGENERATES IS HERE!

Dungeon Degenerates - Hand of Doom is the biggest project Goblinko has created to date & it arrived in Portland on Halloween, 2017. We've spent the last two weeks getting a thousand kickstarter backed copies out to our backers & now we're gearing up for our big Christmas Sale. What started out as a combat card game that we asked our friend Eric Radey to write rules for has grown into a monstrous board game with an enormous world to explore - full of intrigue, weirdness, terror & lowlife elements. We put our full 100% into this game & it really shows.

I did an absurd amount of art for this game. Every card has unique art - every monster & every loot is a new piece of art. The Rules & The Missions books are heavily illustrated as well. Game Designer Eric Radey went the extra mile as well - the rules are smooth & effective & the thing drips with background information. It is an intense, immersive & new fantasy world that is both familiar & surprising at the same time.

Dungeon Degenerates incorporates tons of Goblinko themes that we've developed over the years & you will find yourself immersed in the life-changing weirdness that we've spent almost 20 years creating. Sausages, midgets, the occult, drugs, fungus, S&M, Euro-Strangeness, Shamanism, societal disfunction, cults & Goblins are just some of the things waiting you in Dungeon Degenerates.

We're just starting on this thing - check it out!

- Sean

WITCH HILL

I guess the idea of Eaten By Ducks being dead really laid a stink, like a rotting carcass does in the back corners of my brain. Anyhow - here's what I'm working on right now. For Dungeon Degenerates - this is a poster/cover art for the part of the Wurstreich known as the Witch Woods & specifically Witch Hill. The old cults of the Black Goat of the Woods claim it as their own but the Imperial agents of the Wurstreich recognize it as a powerful place that needs to be controlled. Here's the first progress shot. Sometimes - instead of doing the drawing completely in each rendering level, I go ahead & get into sections before I've even pencilled other areas because I'm so excited to get rolling on the real drawing.  

Here's the finished drawing. I'm channeling the idea of how book, movie & video game covers frequently misrepresent the things inside - partially because the artist has never read, watched or played the media item - but also - the nature of covers capturing the sensational aspects of the thing in order to trigger interest always works. Anyhow, despite the fact that I'm doing all the art for Dungeon Degenerates & have worked intimately on the game & theme itself - I wanted to view the game through the sensationalistic qualities of a Black Light poster or record cover instead of carefully illustrating some nuanced or linear elements of the game's lore. 

DUNGEON DEGENERATES

I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE BOARD GAME DUNGEON DEGENERATES FOR THE PAST YEAR - IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG - I STARTED PRODUCING CARD ART FOR THIS WAY BACK IN 2007 OR SOMETHING WHEN I REALIZED THAT I STILL WANTED TO DO ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A FANTASY ROLE PLAYING GAME. TEN YEARS LATER - WE'VE LAUNCHED GOBLINKO'S FIRST BOARD GAME - DUNGEON DEGENERATES - WITH MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND & LONG-TIME CREATIVE PARTNER ERIC RADEY. HERE'S SEVEN NEW POSTERS I CREATED FOR THE GAME.

THE COLORS ARE INFLUENCED DIRECTLY BY EARLY VIDEO GAMES' LIMITED COLOR USE & BOLD, HALLUCINOGENIC COLORS SHINING OUT OF THE BLACKNESS - LIKE PULSATING BLACK LIGHT POSTERS COME TO LIFE. THE ART & TONE ARE PART OF MY BROADER WORK OF ROCK&ROLL, DRUGS, DEMONOLOGY & SEX & FUNKY, WEIRD, SLEAZY UNDERBELLY TYPE SHEEIT. YOU CAN GET THE POSTERS HERE.  AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THE DUNGEON DEGENERATES BOARD-GAME HERE. 

HOORAY FOR THE BAD GUYS

So I'm working on this Dungeon Degenerates Fantasy World & just knocked out this new poster, "Hooray For the Bad Guys". I'm simultaneously working on the "Return To Fantasy" issue of PORK magazine & I'm crystalizing this enormous, but amorphous fantasy world that has been in my head for most of my life. Made out of paint fumes & fleeting glances of daemonic entities, virginal maidens lost in the forest, spider webs, goblin skulls & the primordial energies that lurk in the mazes of our minds. It's fun. It's fun & it feels like a big deal. You can get the poster at the GOBLINKO MEGAMALL.

PORK #21 IS OUT NOW

I'M REALLY STOKED ON THE NEW ISSUE OF PORK MAGAZINE!!! 24 GIANT PAGES OF PORK - DECLARING A WORLD OF TROUBLE!!! I INTERVIEW FERAL HOUSE PUBLISHER, WRITER & SATANIC TROUBLE-MAKER ADAM PARFREY!!! WE LOOK BACK AT MALCOLM MCLAREN & VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'S PUNK ROCK SEDITIONARIES & THEIR REVOLUTIONARY ART INTO LIFE METHODOLOGY! I TALK TO BOB GORMAN OF GWAR & THE SLAVE PIT WEIRDO ART WAR MACHINE!!! WE PROFILE LOS ANGELES' ROCK&ROLLERS DR. BOOGIE & THEIR NEW RECORD GOTTA GET BACK... TO NEW YORK CITY!!! PLUS! THE USUAL: LOTS OF REVIEWS, KATIE AABERG'S PHOTO FUNNIES FEATURING ALL LIL'PIGS, COMIC ISLAND COMIX BY KAZ, THE SLOW POISONER, THE FORSLEY BROTHERS, MAX CLOTT, FERNANDEZ, GUNSHO, MIKEY BOSSSDOG, ALEX CHIU, CHICO FELIX, KELLY CAMPANILE, ALEX HAGEN, CHASE TAIL & SEAN AABERG! BAD IDEAS COLUMNS WITH DAN SHOUP LOOKS AT ARCHAEO OPTIMISM FOR THE NEW YEAR, THE SLOW POISONER ANSWERS ALL, JJ MK EXPLORES THE UNBELIEVABLE, MYKEL BOARD GRIPES, JAKE KELLY TALKS THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS, BOBBY MADNESS SAYS THINGS TO MAKE YOU SQUIRM, THE ILLAGE VIDIOT BRINGS YOU THE BEST VIDEOISMS, CHASE TAIL BRINGS US HIS TALES FROM THE CRYPT & SEAN AABERG SAYS WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. IT'S GOTTA BE SEEN TO BELIEVED. THE ONLY MAGAZINE THAT MATTERS. CRAMMED TO THE GILLS WITH REAL STREET ROCKER JUNK SCRAPED FROM THE MEAN STREETS OF PORKLAND. PORK MAGAZINE. AT THE GOBLINKO MEGAMALL.

HALLOWEEN ISLAND - HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS BY SEAN AABERG

I went crazy doing Halloween Decorations!!! We have three sets. No I'm working on Thanksgiving/Fall & Christmas ones. So much fun! Get them at the GOBLINKO MEGAMALL.

HALLOWEEN IS EVERY DAY!!!

Hello Ducks. Long time - no see... I've been going Halloween crazy - first re-committed PORK magazine to establishing a permanent Halloween populated by monsters. I'm quite stoked with this cover. It's an ultimate dungeon party with a hallucinogenic witch's brew. We also got KAZ on board doing comix now which is fucking radical.

Meanwhile I've been launching tons of new Halloween products like this Halloween Haunted House poster. I thought about the crazy feeling I'd get Trick or Treating as a little kid, how disoriented I'd get going door to door, especially if the house was decked out. There were a couple Haunted Houses that were really nightmarish as a kid. One of them had a Vampire in a coffin that would come out & chase Trick or Treaters that got too close. I was also thinking about the first Punk House parties I went to & how I'd get a similar, disoriented, freaked out, but very pleased feeling at them.

Finally, I designed these Halloween Cut-Out Decorations. All this stuff is coming out under the Halloween Island brand from the GOBLINKO MEGAMALL. These are inspired by the old Beistle Halloween Vintage Paper Decorations, but obviously in my WEIRDO ART style.

I'm doing very well, I'm working too hard, but it has payed off. We've got seven paid employees at GOBLINKO now & it's all housed in its own house even! Me & Katie are the lowest paid employees as the owners, but it's cool cos we're doing exactly what we want to do & it's really been taking off.

You can get them all at the GOBLINKO MEGAMALL.