Haha yes, and it’s kinda wild to submit this to “Euro comics,” when the imp clearly sounds like an NYC taxi-driver. But hear me out, if you please:

I’m working on the upcoming master list of Euro & Euro-style webcomics, but wanted to first add a little context to one of the upcoming entries, i.e. Wormy, which appeared in TSR’s Dragon magazine from 1977-'88. The magazine of course was directly founded to aid and inform serious Dungeons & Dragons players, a pioneering role-playing game which was heavily inspired by European fantasy, wargaming, and of course J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional worlds.

David Trampier was just about my favorite of all the talented TSR artists, whose work heavily featured in much of the original ‘modules’ and reference books. [samples] Wormy itself was hugely creative, frequently hilarious, and did excellent world-building IMO. It was quite unique for it’s time, and remarkably, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it’s match, since. Jeff Smith’s Bone might be the closest thing I’m aware of.

Sadly, Trampier split from TSR rather acrimoniously around 1988, and he passed away in 2014 before his Wormy stories could be fully collected, expanded upon, and published. (one’s mind practically salivates over his final, unpublished pages, presumably being somewhere in storage when he died)

Here then are the opening pages to this classic, which a few years ago I did some color and contrast corrections on: [Wormy, the first seven]

EDIT: Ooh, ooh, and the helpful template of the music that trampier was riffing on: Misty Mountains Cold (it’s a nice little song, don’t you think?)

(can’t believe the post is still alive on Imgur, haha)