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There is now an Earthworm Jim official Facebook page! Doug TenNapel is posting Earthworm Jim official art and concepts. Not only that though! With the added bonus of his and his peers memories and creative insights behind each image. There is a concept and official art gallery here on Rocket Worm. We've only guessed at some of the reasoning behind stuff, so Doug is providing information into the creative development process behind the games and TV show etc., that fans have never really had the chance to know about before. It's pretty interesting to hear about the underlying thoughts and processes that went into all those things. That's pretty awesome...so get over there if you are on Facebook and join in. :) Continue reading →

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It's been a long time since I did something like this. It's been nearly five years since I re-designed Rocket Worm, and it could do with a new lick of paint since it's Earthworm Jim's 20th anniversary next year...the current look of the site is really bugging me. I wanted to do this for the longest time and kept talking myself out of it. This isn't a priority, but I don't know if I will get another chance to do it if I keep putting it off. I'm currently working on colouring the graphic novel of Doug TenNapel's Nnewts. We had to put the web comic on hiatus, and he's made it into a graphic novel. At the beginning of this year, we wrapped up a new colour version of his Graphic Novel Tommysaurus Rex, which is coming out later this summer by Scholastic. Anyhow after a lot of procrastinating, I started sketching it out...I want to get most of the main characters on it. Not sure at this point how it will turn out...so I'm documenting the progress. Yes it is a little insane. I certainly feel insane doing it, but I've started now so it's too late. I'm not as good as Doug at drawing his characters (obviously!) but I have fun drawing them all the same. These are sketches which will be coloured and painted...before I do that, they will be arranged into a layout. I'm just sketching them out and getting the tones down on them at this point. Peter Puppy (turning into a monster), Earthworm Jim, a cow, Psy-Crow, Princess What's Her Name and Evil The Cat. About 10 or more to go. Continue reading →

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Doug TenNapel, Mike Dietz, Ed Schofield (Pencil Test Studios) and several other very awesome people are hard at work developing a new stop-motion point and click adventure game called Armikrog. They are using high tech materials such as wood, carboard, clay...glue. Probably sticky tape. Doug says that a lot of cardboard boxes are involved! Keep up to date and stuff at their Facebook page. :) Continue reading →

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Enjoying these Doug TenNapel Kickstarter commissions...there are a lot of lucky people out there who are going to get these. Today Doug posted ink and wash illustrations of Willie Trombone from The Neverhood, Evil The Cat from Earthworm Jim, a Five Iron Frenzy character and a space pioneer. Hop over there and check them out...Doug TenNapel Kickstarter Comissions: Neverhood, FIF etc. Continue reading →

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Doug TenNapel posted another great Earthworm Jim commission from his sketchbook archives Kickstarter today. :) Doug TenNapel Kickstarter Commission – Earthworm Jim Lovely stuff! Continue reading →

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Doug TenNapel has posted a few of his Kickstarter commissions over the last couple of months (all sorts of different characters!), so make sure you keep up to date with them on his site...I like to re-post the Earthworm Jim ones! Here's a new one he posted today of Princess What's Her Name looking very chic. :) Princess What's Her Name Kickstarter commission. Continue reading →

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Happy new year everyone. I can't offer a big new year update, or a picture...or some sort of news about Earthworm Jim. Even though I don't really have time to worry about this silly old site anymore, I'm glad for the genuinely good and creative people who I've communicated online with over the years. Thank you for visiting and becoming part of something that I started 16 years ago because Athena suggested I try making my own fan site - possibly because I was sending her too much fan art to put up on her site at the time...! :lol: I'm glad there have been other like-minded people to join in with that. It's been a lot of fun. Sometimes it hasn't been fun, but I don't need to talk about the past. It's gone! Best wishes for 2013. Live your lives, be creative - never give your dreams up for other people. If your dreams change, then go with the flow and change with them. Continue reading →

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Doug TenNapel has posted an awesome commission he made of Earthworm Jim and Princess What's Her Name! Some very dynamic action going on in this piece with his lovely ink and wash technique. 8) Doug TenNapel EWJ Commission Continue reading →

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Hi there, hope everyone is OK out there. It's been a while since there's been anything to blog about here about Earthworm Jim, so I'm happy to mention it! Doug TenNapel EWJ I think we all have our own special pop-culture memories from our childhood that continued with us into adult hood... For me it was The Flight of Dragons, anything by Jim Henson and then somewhere along the line after playing many old Spectrum and Atari ST games discovering Earthworm Jim in one of those old mail-order book club catalogs that used to come in the post. I remember when the box arrived even to this day..it was a bit battered and worn for some reason but I was happy as a bat in a gumtree from that day on. It became one of my favorite things. How about you? :) Now I have lots of other favorite things...Queen (The band), Doctor Who, Devil May Cry (not the new one)...Legacy of Kain, Soul Reaver...seriously the list gets longer as I get older. It's a little daft, but there you go. I'm a bit of a geek...I know. You couldn't tell right? I will get back to some of things I had planned for this site eventually btw - give it a new lick of paint and all that jazz...I just want to let you know that. I've got a lot of work to get done in the meantime, that's all. That's life. Continue reading →

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Doug TenNapel has kicked off a new Kickstarter for a project that will show many never-before seen concepts and sketches from 42 sketchbooks! It will feature the best of all sorts of unseen stuff including early concepts for Earthworm Jim, The Neverhood and Nnewts to name a few.

...They don't just document the birth of characters you've heard of like Earthworm Jim, The Neverhood, Catscratch and Creature Tech, but HUNDREDS of characters and worlds that have never been seen by the public... until now.

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