Precious Rascals

The doodles of real-life cartoon dad, Anthony Holden.

[maumont]

Frog and Rabbit live in Poppy Valley, and they're the best friends in the world! Sometimes, outstanding stories happen to them; would you like to tell a few together? A week with Frog and Rabbit is a cozy TTRPG for 2 or 3 players which features seven stories about two anthropomorphic animals, inspired by works such as Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, and countless others. Each story requires no other material than this little book and can be told in 30-45 minutes. If played with 3 people, the stories are told by a storyteller who guides the two friends throughout their adventures.

Illustrated throughout by François Maumont, the final book will be a hardcover, A6, 84-pages book, with advice on how to play beyond the 7 stories featured within!

If you're in need of some heartwarming stories, help me make this small dream a reality :)

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Grenouille et Lapin vivent dans la Vallée des Coquelicots, et ce sont les meilleurs amis du monde ! Parfois, il leur arrive de fameuses histoires ; ça vous dirait d'en raconter quelques-unes ensemble ? Une semaine avec Grenouille et Lapin est un JdR douillet pour 2 ou 3 personnes, incluant sept histoires de deux animaux anthropomorphes, inspiré par des livres comme la série Ranelot et Buffolet d'Arnold Lobel, Pierre Lapin de Beatrix Potter, et d'innombrables autres. Pour chaque histoire, vous n'aurez besoin que de ce petit livre et de 30 à 45 minutes de temps libre. Si vous jouez à 3, les histoires seront racontées par un narrateur qui guidera les deux amis à travers leurs aventures.

Illustré de bout en bout par François Maumont, l'objet final sera un livre de format A6, long de 84 pages et contenu entre deux couvertures rigides mais confortables, avec des conseils pour jouer au-delà des 7 histoires qu'il contiendra !

Si vous avez besoin d'histoires qui tiennent chaud au cœur, aidez-moi à transformer ce petit rêve en réalité :) https://comemartin.itch.io/a-week-with-frog-and-rabbit https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/e73b0a0f-f75b-4d9b-9347-781bd5c6765e/landing

[jakewyattonline]

A Necropolis layout from last year. I still work on Necropolis here and there, but anytime I start to pick up the thread, to find my way, the job pulls me out again. The struggle of making television has demanded almost all of my time since July 2020.

Getting to make cartoons with so many talented people has been a huge, all-consuming privilege. It's taken me five years on the job just to get my legs under me, just to begin to feel that I know what I'm doing. It's taken everything I have just to keep my head above water, to get something resembling our crew's talent and effort and intention onto the screen. For that entire half-decade I have longed to make comics, to write stories for myself, to draw for myself. But there was always something that needed doing.

Recently I've realized that denying that part of myself, telling it to wait its turn through one more script revision, one more review, one more retake, one more episode, one more season--it's taken a toll that I can no longer afford to pay. I don't think I can keep going unless I take some time to write and draw and explore outside of the studio production system. As we fight through post on the third season of My Adventures With Superman and start writing the first season of Lantern, I'm looking for ways to work and lead that will get me some of that time back--and my teams are really coming through for me.

But even if I can find that time, I still need to decide how to spend it, and where to put the things I make. I need a place away from the urgency and deadlines and pressure of the studio. Tumblr has always had the best community, is where I've always been the most comfortable, so I'm gonna start here. I will cross-post some of what I do here to other, more hellish parts of the internet, but this is going to be home for a while.

I hope that those of you who never left don't mind me coming back. I hope that those of you who've nested here in the meantime don't mind some new-type Oldtype showing up. I just want a place to be myself, instead of another dusty piece of production equipment.

Thanks,

Jake

[necropoliscomic]

Reblogging this here. A lot of folks on this and other platforms ask if I'm still working on Necropolis. I am (see above), but what started as a short-term, long-shot tv development project has become four seasons of television, now spread across two series and five years of my life.

I have been entirely subsumed by the job. But I'm trying to reconstitute myself.

I haven't and won't quit Necropolis, but before I can fully reengage it, I have to find my way back to making things that aren't studio television. Once that's done, I need to determine the correct angle of approach for Necropolis, specifically. And all that is just going to take time.

If you still care, thank you so much. Sincerely. I hope I'm able to continue (and eventually finish!) this story while you still do. I really like making this comic for you all. I would really like to see it done.

-Jake

[anthonyholden]

Hey, friends! It's been a while.

[anthonyholden]

A little Christmas memory from 2019. As always, some of us CAN'T WAIT for Christmas!!

[anthonyholden]

Part 3

Parts 1 and 2

[anthonyholden]

[anthonyholden]

NEW GAME +

You can always start over. You're stronger now.

[anthonyholden]

Just a quick note that I’ve opened commissions briefly!

https://anthonyholdenart.bigcartel.com/category/commissions

Thanks for taking a look or passing on the word!

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UPDATE: ALL SLOTS ARE FILLED. THANKS, EVERYONE!

[anthonyholden]

(pt 1 of 3)

[anthonyholden]

because we like sharing in this family

[anthonyholden]

kids are so random sometimes

[anthonyholden]

it’s gross over here.

[anthonyholden]

we only want treat foods nowadays

[anthonyholden]

I mean, can you blame her?

[necropoliscomic]

Wow, all conflicts resolved and a happy ending, in typical Necropolis fashion!

Sadly, part of my deal with Anthony was that I’d finish his comic… but I seem to have complicated things.

See you next week, when we’ll resolve the prologue frame story! Will Anthony have the King and Queen can settle their differences with a game of ping-pong? Who knows!

-Jake

[anthonyholden]

Planning ahead

[anthonyholden]

What IS that thing even for though?