Our artists say “thank you,” and so do we!

As I mentioned in our last update, we REALLY love our artists, and we want our success to be their success. I wanna take a second to highlight a few of our artist superstars.

Bianca Papalardo is our art director. She’s been with us since the very first Murka book (you’d recognize her work in any of the items from that first book, all of which are being redrawn for Ratified & Radified), when she was just a fledgling. Now she’s an absolute POWERHOUSE in the art world, having worked for everybody from DC Comics to the Dauntless video game. She’s crazy skilled, we love her.

Hermz Villamor is the artist behind our 3D models. We met him when we started work on our board game Goblin Cave, where he did the minis for all the goblins and adventurers alike. He’s crazy skilled as a 3D modeller, and we’re really lucky to get to work with him. He’ll be bringing Sir Valence to life (as covered in this update), as well as the rest of the minis we unlock.

I also want to give a shoutout to Sal the Dark Cloak. Sal’s been with us for several projects as well, and is responsible for our Star Wars parody piece, which is one of our most widely-appreciated pieces. Every time someone sees this piece at a convention, they lose their absolute MINDS. He’s the artist who has done our Brewmaster art, and he’s also behind a new parody piece themed off of Army of Darkness (WIP below, I adjusted the contrast here just to make it easy for y’all to see his magic).

Thanks to you, each of them—and the rest of our artists—will be getting a bonus for their INCREDIBLE work in bringing the world of Murka to life.

The next stretch goal we’ll unlock is more art. How convenient, since we’ve just given our artists that nice bonus! ;) 

Also, we’ve revealed the printed one-shot, Hometown Heroes stretch goal! Folks may remember us playing this one-shot on a livestream last week to showcase it. Now, we’ll be making a printed version of that one-shot! We have to explore the print costs of this—we’d love to include it for free to all physical backers, but we need to make sure we’re able to eat that cost first. We’ll keep you all in the loop!

Yours across the plains of Midwesteros,

Jaron R. M. Johnson

And the Action Fiction Faction