Casper Pham

The Luminary Lark-Mirror is OUT!

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The Luminary Lark-Mirror, my 52-page full color comic about pinball crimes in ‘60s America is now available for purchase on the Shortbox Comica Fair website for the e...

The Luminary Lark-Mirror: Notes on Character Design

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Just wanted to compile some of the art exploration and thoughts that lead up to the final designs of the key characters in The Luminary Lark-Mirror (my soon-to-be-released comic, comi...

Coming soon to Shortbox Comics Fair... THE LUMINARY LARK-MIRROR!

Hello everyone,

A big milestone for me, I've just finished and submitted my first every full-length comic, The Luminary Lark-Mirror for Shortbox Comics Fair 2025. I will be waiting u...

Cez of Drăculești (process)

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To my surprise, I actually hadn't done up a post for this piece yet detailing its process, so here it is now (better late than never)!

This was an illustration commissioned b...

The Luminary Lark-Mirror (the first 10 pages!)

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This is a work-in-progress! Please view at your own discretion. I will likely go back and clean/edit as I go along, but I just wanted to update everyone on the progress on...

The Luminary Lark Mirror: Mock Cover, Thumbs, Script, and Character Art

I don't quite remember if I've announced it here yet, but in case you weren't in the know: I am participating in the 2025 Shortbox Online Comics Fair with a fully realized take on my prior comic id...

Poltergeist Post #5: Tier Updates!

Hello everyone,

As of today, I will be consolidating my two request tiers (Civet Sojourner and Oud Upholder) into one tier. It will cost 25 USD to subscribe to that tier, the same price as Ou...

Movie Nite #3: Conspirators of Pleasure & Belle de Jour

I’ve been slacking a bit on these since Tết came around, but I still plan on doing these sketch pages weekly and posting them in full here. This week’s selection was Conspirators of Pleasure ...

Movie Nite Studies #1 + #2

I’ve challenged myself this year, as an attempt to whack away at my ever-growing film watchlist, to watch two films a week. Doodling characters and scenes as they appear help me to stay focused a...

Ache Eternal - a TF fanbook - is now out!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I've finally finished this little book in time for the holiday season, just a 48-page love letter to the Transformers filled with illustrations and poetry by me. Pa...

Baffling Issue #19 Cover

This was a commissioned cover for Baffling, an online speculative flash fiction magazine, based off of one of the stories ...

Salome's Last Dance (1988) poster process

I really do hope I get to see a Salome production live one day, it's always been a very ...

Neon Requiem Book Cover Art (process)

This was my recent client-commissioned cover illustration for the yet unpublished Asian-centered cyberpunk anthology Neon Requiem. Quite proud of how this turned out! It's quite a busy piece with a...

MARGINALIA (my 94-page sketchbook) is now out!

Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for your patience, it is with all your guys' support I am able to present to you my 94-page sketchbook documenting lesser-seen work from 2021-2024. Everything f...

Casper's Sketchbook Poll

Alright guys, I'm at a bit of a crossroads here. I'm currently putting together a 2021-2024 sketchbook (that will be free for you guys at the $5+ tier), but I'm wondering if it would be smarter to ...

Poltergeist Post #4: Goal Posts!

Hi everyone,

I'm starting to take my financing a little more seriously and have decided I want to devote more attention and time to feeding this Patreon while also introducing a milestone rew...

VBros After-work Genderbends

Some doodles I did after work.

Thoughts:

The Painted Lady / Malcolmina (The Monarch): Based on Queen Taramis’ costume design from the Conan the Destroyer movie (and other 80s She-Ra t...

The Chariot: Crashing into Stained Glass

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Recently I was honored to work on a large, collaborative tarot card deck with more than 60 other artists, all revolving around a Stained Glass theming. The conceit was that we...

Cops n’ Robbers! (sketches and progress)

I was recently tapped to participate in a Gaza relief charity zine with a “detectives and thieves” theme, titled Catch Me If You Can. At first, I wanted to go all out on an original concept but...

Poltergeist Post #3

Hi all! It's Casper. 

I know it's been quite some time since my last newsletter, a lot has happened since then. I got a part-time job at a furniture design company. I adopted two beautif...

A Passionate Critique of Baldur's Gate III (with personal redesigns!)

I love roleplaying games. The promise of a roleplaying game is simple: no matter what you are or who you choose to be in this story, you have a right to participate. Obviously, a video game cannot ...

The Luminary Lark Mirror: Development Art #1

Welcome to the very first development art log of a personal comic project I've been slowly chipping away at since late last year. This is practically the first time I've spoken about it to anyone i...

Musings on: Hờn Anh Giận Em (Jealousy)

I love Vietnamese surf rock from the '70s, produced mostly in the South while atrocity after atrocity was being enacted on home soil. It's a peek into the lives of the Vietnamese middle class privi...

Patreon Request: IMPACTOR! (with Curves and color talk)

This month marks the first month of Patreon requests for patrons on my $15+ tiers, so I thought I'd add something extra and use it as a opportunity to demonstrate a bit about how I typically go thr...

The Poltergeist Post #2

Hi, everyone. Happy New Year! Let’s start off this issue with a resolution.

My resolution this year is to make significant progress on a comic script I’ve been writing in my free time cal...

Musings on: Masters of Mind Chess

Oh, what a fun project this was. I mean, when a client comes to you and asks you: "would you like to illustrate the booklet for a tabletop game about beating the mental snot out of an opponent with...

The Poltergeist Post #1

Hello, all.

Well, I finally bit the bullet and faced the music of what all freelancers must at some part of their careers: the dire, pressing need for a consistent solution to paying the bill...