Sean Äaberg

BORROWING

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 08

The presidential debate was really disturbing. Watching Trump & Biden face off as caricatures of themselves was horrible. They were both lying, Trump was such a blow hard, Biden was such a dodd...

MOUNT HOOD

Part of my desire is to push the importance of Mt. Hood.

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 07

I’ve not been working on the weekends for a while. Before the stroke I used to work 16 hour days regularly, on the weekends, whenever. There were plenty of fun things to do , life was great, but ...

EXPLORATIONS

I'm, coming upon something, stay tuned,

THE CON MAN & THE GHOST

We watched the presidential “debate” last night. The con man & the ghost did worse than I expected but at least there was the civilized structure of debate. I know Democracy is designed to ...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 06

I’ve been watching Portland & Multnomah County council meetings for the last year & a half. Portland & all the big West Coast cities have been going through a similar crisis of civili...

IT'S A PROMISE

Although my old way would be to declare this & then go to earth tones! I haven't been contradictory like that for a while!

PIXEL ART 03

This piece shows Choronzon the Symbolic. Choronzon is not really an individual. Choronzon is an energy that occupies a living rock that looks like a leafless pineapple but swivels around like a pu...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 05

Ever since I had the stroke my emotions have been on a lightswitch. I feel them very intensely for a brief period of time. I figured this out when it was almost Christmas, I was rehabilitating ...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 04

I read the Tao Te Ching when I was 14 or so & it had a huge impact on me. Even though I was devoted to the Punk world of agitation & obnoxiousness I could tell that Taoism spoke to me on a ...

PIXEL ART 02

I'm excited to eventually translate these things into mosaics!

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS...

I’m sure most of you have noticed that social media hasn’t been delivering like it used to & now the stream is a pathetic trickle. New platforms come in all the time making the stream even ...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 02

Yesterday some Jehovah’s Witnesses came to my door. I could tell they were Jehovah’s Witnesses before they announced themselves because you never see such scrubbed, put-together, friendly-looki...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 01

I'm starting a new project, making my daily email from GOBLINKO (sign up if you're not) more involved & working on my writi...

DREAM HOUSE

I haven’t been writing down my dreams here because they’ve been so mundane, cool to experience but not really worth telling but last night I had a dream where we had bought a big old Victorian ...

NEW PIXEL ART

I have a minute between projects so I'm able to think about new projects & just do some art! Some of my best artistic concepts come from when I just give myself space to create, instead of work...

THE GOBLINKO GANG

The original GOBLINKO GANG that were released as stickers & some of the designs were reused for other things… probably 2012 or so….

GERMANGLISH

From the Battle For Brüttelburg Kickstarter. When I was a kid in the 80s my dad went to Japan on tour (he's a Musician) & came back with reports of the Japanese use of English. In 1993 Dave Ba...

HING FAT

I learned that these are called Hing Fat Monsters by collectors, I drew my own versions of a bunch of these for DUNGEON DEGENERATES, knowing that the D&D Rust Monster & Bulette have their o...

LOYALTY

As the drum-beat of the election draws near, & I'm working on a piece about the Children of the Wurstreich, this quote came to me. "Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that...

ON GOBLINS

Goblins in General

The Goblins of the Würstreich have been around for as long as anyone can remember. Their malodorous, pulsating, writhing, sweaty, disgusting origins are c...

DUNGEON DEGENERATES: THE EXPANSIONING

The people have spoken! The number of people who wanted three separate campaigns could be counted on one hand. So we're going to do three distinct boxes in one Kickstarter. I'm finding it relativel...

BURN

Every day I think about burning trash for energy & how they’ve figured out how to have only water vapor released from European trash burning facilities, Portland has to prioritize picking up ...

TRADITION

Father’s Day & my Birthday form a “me” block, so I think about what it means to be me a bunch. I love tradition, I also am an iconoclast & make my own things up - but! I believe in st...

PARDON MEME

A CLEAN SLATE

We watched Fury Road again last night, got me thinking about Doomerisn more. When I was a kid the romance of the slate being wiped clean & an opportunity to start again was so enticing for me, ...

THE SKY IS NOT FALLING

The tendency around me is for doomerism is to be seen as some kind of foregone conclusion & wise/accepted reality but I really feel like the human experience is just starting, with an enormous ...

MR. WINTER

Man, the algorithm really didn’t like my $ale announcement! But, here’s an old piece I did of Ian Miller worship - Mr. Winter! You can get 25% 0ff your order from GOBLINKO by joining our facebo...

CYBERGOD

I’ve got an emergency to share with you all - I am in a crisis - I’m in a moral quandary about using the face & platform of Zuckerberg to promote my business. We’re all stuck in this soci...