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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

My latest game pickup. I’m afraid it might be a bootleg. #gameboy #BOTW #Zelda

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

10 years

So, I was wondering what a Hanna-Barbara cartoon of Metroid would be like... http://t.co/Ck1t8sV0Pr

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

And here's a 3DS touching himself.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

I didn't really have anything to do with Starfox Adventures but I did get the gang on the 2001 Rare crimbo card.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

Hi, I’m Wil. I draw silly pictures but I’m lazy which is why you’ve probably seen all these before. Help me be less lazy. #ArtistOnTwitter

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

So, here’s a thing.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

Calling all game devs little or large who might be on the lookout for a 2D concept/UI/graphic design artist. Lots of years experience in both games and publishing. Will relocate for the right role. #ArtistOnTwitter

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Well, I made it to 56 years today. Do I feel old? A bit, yep but I think that’s more down to all the crap that’s been happening lately. I reckon, if I’m lucky, I’ve got 20-25 years left and, as Ferris said, it goes by pretty fast. Make the most of it, kids.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

I seem to have found myself working back at Rare. Blimey.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

Drawing Arwings is tricky. Drawing Assault Arwings makes your hand hurt. Some Foxy fun for the extremely lovely folks at @NintyFreshMag . Go buy their mag! #StarFox #Nintendo

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

I seem to have some new magazines. What year is this again?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

For some strange reason, I'm in a 1997 kinda mood, today.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

I wonder if the new Perfect Dark will get a VHS in its press kit?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 months

This week I started back at Rare, had a new Retro Gamer cover come out and am now eating a bacon sarnie. I call that a win.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

OK then, here you go - a new, bogus, SP cover for January. Forgive the spurious coverlines; they were taking ages to think up. Tried for a cluttered Famitsu-style feel but I think I need a few more stabs at it. #gamesmags #superplay

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

8 months

Happy snow on logo season.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 months

Lots of hoo-haw around a 30 year old pic for Super Play so although I don't have a website, Patreon or merch to push I thought I'd punt this up as it took me ages to finish off and is probably one of the only things I've done in ages, just for the fun of it. #captainN #nintendo

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

11 months

A good delivery day.

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@kosmikat

3 years

As I’ve been reminded, way back in ‘97, this would have been the UK launch month for both the N64 and N64 Mag. Here’s one I didn’t open earlier.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

As I’ve got the foilo out I thought I’d inflict some more old artwork, all from them 1990s, on you all. Might be fun to redo some of these at some point now that I’ve had 20+ years to practise. Please indulge an old fella'

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Had reason to show this chap the sunlight today and found my original receipt in the box. Got him on 22/12/89 from Shekhana on Tottenham Crt Road in that there London. That was a good day ☺️

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

SF6 Pocket Edition

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

For your consideration, a Famicat. Like Paul Atreides, he knows the value of the spice (orange).

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

The Mad Catz Avengers.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 months

Happy 30th to the riot girl.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

As you can probably tell, I'm lazily browsing through old folders this afternoon. Found pics of these, now very old, bits of tat.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

Okey, my last SP #48 tweet as I’m sure you're all sick of it by now ;) Here’s the cover art sans all the gumph. Thanks for all the support!

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

I do miss the aesthetic of '90s Japanese video games.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

Tried to think of a pic to post for #Mar10Day and then thought I can kill two Goombas with one stone and also do that #sketchvsfinal thing, too.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

Found a 30 year old cel painting, stuffed down the back of the wardrobe.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

I dare someone at the BBC to put series 1 of Look Around You on in the new education slot.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 months

Found this in a random box. Finally, I can get better at this bloody game.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

8 years

My first Vita box art 😄

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

I'm not hanging around but for those wondering where I've been I'm afraid I was admitted to incentive care with severe Diabetic ketoacidosis on the 6th, was unconscious for 7 days, nearly never made it but have just scraped through the other end. Won't be back for some time.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 months

Thought that looked familiar. Just don’t mention the 30 years.

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@RetroGamer_Daz

3 months

I’ve always loved @kosmikat Samus art so it’s great to once again see it gracing the cover of a games magazine for our Super Metroid feature. Subs should be receiving this shortly.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

8 years

A little 3DS. For no reason. I love my (now, not-so) new 3DS.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

9 months

Ok, then, here we go again.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

Time to start this again

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

Is there nothing that CG can't make look a little worse?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

9 years

Seeing all that new Hanna-Barbera stuff yesterday made me think I was obviously going the wrong way with my HB Samus

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Thought I’d lost this but a little spring clean and there it was 😀

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

Scribbling WIP. Me and yer actual industry legend @Kev_Bayliss are doing a colab poster for the #Retromessa con in August. I swear this is the first time I've drawn PDZ Joanna since the flippin' game came out. The trauma was that strong.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

No E3 this year but I did stumble across memories of two other ‘work’ trips.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

An unexpected result of my wife converting the spare room into a photo studio is that I now have a bookcase right in front of me. My mental health has definitely increased as a result of being able to just glance up at it.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

Evening folks. I've got a little Nintendo mag side-project in the vein of SP/N64/NGamer etc. on the go. If you fancy helping out with words/pics/graphics etc. then drop me a DM. No crunch-time and all genders welcome.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Time to recycle some stuff for #PortfolioDay Silly cartoons is my thing. Put 'em on anything - games, books, comics, stickers and yer gran's Insta!

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 months

Oh Slippy, such a terrible fear factor score.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Some Gamecube games.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

Anybody want to start a computer games magazine company?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

I’ve just been down the newsie and the crimbo issue’s out. Cheeky buggers, it’s not reviewed at all, there’s no score!

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

I found another bit of N64 Mag ephemera this morning.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Are these stills from a Dario Argento movie?

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

4 years

I’m not sure which is more terrifying: When the Trumps pretend to go to church or when they pretend to celebrate Christmas.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

Orders are live, folks. Please all get the collectors edition so that I'll get asked back to do another cover at some point.

PC Engine: The Box Art Collection - Japanese game covers | Bitmap Books

PC Engine: The Box Art Collection is a 372-page celebration of some of the best cover artwork for NEC’s PC Engine, known as the TurboGrafx-16 outside of Japan.

www.bitmapbooks.com

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 months

You can keep your Palworld, all the cool kids are into the faster, shinier NTSCworld.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

Reached Level 58 today. Not quite the end of the game but it's definitely getting harder. Don't need the hip replacement upgrade just yet, though.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

I’d almost forgotten that I had this beauty. Pearl white 1st gen Japanese DS. That screen seems so tiny, now. Looks like I need to get it on charge, though. #nintendods #goemon

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

I know in the great scheme of things it doesn't seem much but we lost a puddy cat this week to cancer. She was an RSPCA rescue who had been found, along with another cat, stuffed into a shoebox (that had been tied up) and dumped in a hedge. She had 6 years with us.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

Scribbled this almost 10 years ago and doing Fox and pals as space knights still nags at my brain. #starfox

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

@dannywallace seaBay

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

I'm not bitter. I can accept my limitations but the gulf between this and me not being able to help a guy keep his sign from falling over...

☆オードリーAudrey☆

@aitaikimochi

1 year

SO WE MACROSS NOW!!??? ARE WE EVEN PLAYING THE SAME GAME!?? #TEARSOFTHEKINGDOM

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

When the news starts to get you down I recommend a nice shelf to take your mind off things.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

"Stop everything you're doing and drop a gif of an anime you really like"

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

Digging through folders again uncovered some Pikmins I did for ONM a while back.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

I seem to have won a BAFTA but I don’t remember ever sitting at a small table, exchanging pleasantries with Olivia Colman or pretending to chortle for the camera at Jonathan Ross.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

I really like this picture. I'm assuming that it's official?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

Random pic time. Sorry if you've seen it before, I'm just trying to gee myself up to do more stuff.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

And so it begins.

ZAKUYA

@ZAKUYA_BOTW

1 year

新しい神獣 #ゼルダの伝説 #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

Has there been a PS1-esqe low-poly look revival yet?

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Easily the best thing I've seen/heard for ages.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

@petersands55 Post Office workers are definitely going to have to up their game when the feather quill comes back into force I'm definitely disappointed that the Dept for Transport crest hasn't been pressed into hot wax.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

That time in Patlabor when they just said 'sod it' and went all in on their love of Gerry Anderson.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

Also, for your nostalgic delectation, a couple of dummy proofs of SP before I was even involved.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Blimey, been married for 27 years, today. Give that girl a medal!

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

If you keep reposting old art you never have to make anything new, right?

Zelda Gif World

@GifZelda

5 years

I’d like a Super Zelda Land on the Game Boy 👾

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

10 months

Happy weekend. Have a N64 Worldy Bloke.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks so much for all the kind words and get well messages from everybody. I’m much better than I was this time last week and some stop-gap reading glasses means I can actually see the computer again. Had pneumonia too so still very weak.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

Saw Mr Whippy trending and was convinced it was another MP sex scandal.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

I did a pic for Rogue Heroes ☺️

Team17

@Team17

3 years

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos comes to Nintendo Switch and Steam tomorrow! To celebrate its release we commissioned @Kosmikat to create this truly heroic artwork! Be a Rogue Hero - Switch: Steam:

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

4 years

My mate's been digging out old photos and today was the reminder of what we went to see in June '84.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

Retweet for the #artistsontwitter I’m Wil and my head is full of silly pictures. Sometimes, they even spill out into the real world :)

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 months

I did a little Link's Awakening pic for this lovely tome 🙂

Ninty Media

@NintyMedia

3 months

The #GAMEBOOK COLOR - a premium coffee table book dedicated to the #GAMEBOY COLOR is out NOW! 300+ pages filled with bespoke art, retrospectives, history and discussion on the GBC and its games. Essential reading for any fan. Celebrate 25 years of the GBC with us!

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

New Turtles game looks good. I like original, cartoon, Turtles.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

Life goal.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

3 years

EVA-01 drawing on an ipad sketch complete (let's not worry about scale). Time to add the cats.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

11 months

Crikey, 30 years married for Sue and I today, just a month or so before I started full-time on Super Play. Spent the first year apart with me in Bath and her still back in Essex. Apparently, 30 is pearl but I'm not really much of a Pokemon player.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

Apparently it’s #portfolioday so please allow me to clutter up your timeline with my scribbles and nonsense. Some other stuff here -

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

11 months

Playdate has landed. I’m excited to get cranking.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

#MyFirstGamesJob (won't count the mags) was @RareLtd in 2000 after being exchanged for some N64 mag exclusive story or something. I was sat in a small room and played the N64 cart of Dinosaur Planet. Then I found a hiding place and managed to stay hidden there for 11 years.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 months

Ha-ha! I drew that one.

DK Vine

@dkvine

6 months

This 2001 @RareLtd Christmas card, hinting at a multiplatform future with games on Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation, has (belatedly) come true.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 months

Just when I was already nervous about what nonsense the coming year could bring, WHSmith jumps the gun with this abomination of a logo redesign.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 months

Had a little chat about the 'olden times'.

Forgotten Worlds

@american80s

6 months

New feature article is live! I spoke to Wil Overton about the convergence of video games, anime and grey imports in Super Play magazine. Read it here 👉 #Nintendo #SuperNintendo #Anime #Manga #SuperPlay #RetroGaming #JRPG

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

I jumped on a little before the UK #SuperNES launch but suffice to say that this machine was responsible for a megaton shift in the direction of my career and life. Wouldn't be doing what I do today without it.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

6 years

You know you all want them.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

It's still an amazing buzz to see your own work on an actual book or magazine. Definitely not something to take for granted. What a lovely book, too with amazing art for loads of games I'd never seen before. Thanks for asking me to contribute @bitmap_books 😊 #pcengine

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

If you remember Anime UK mag, you might remember this that I found the original artwork for, tucked away inside a book just now.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

1 year

I found something old. The original art for Super Play #16 from '94. The cel is yellowing a little and sadly, some of the paint has flaked off onto the background painting. Should have stored them separately, really.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

7 years

I know the Switch is great and all that but I’d quite like one of these for Christmas please.

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

5 years

I seem to have done a Wireframe cover :)

Conor Cleon Clarke

@ChronoCleon

5 years

Happy first anniversary @wireframemag ! Super inventive magazine that includes so much stuff that you just never get anywhere else. (Love that you brought back the shiny silver too.)

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Wil Overton

@kosmikat

2 years

RIP Oliver Frey, artist extraordinaire and icon to so many of us who found you during the Newsfield days. You'll be sorely missed.

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