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Horace H. Hoover
A wonderfully weird ride somewhere between Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones and Inspector Clouseau — printed in vibrant colour on newsprint, the way the Bronze Age did it.
horacehoover.comUnhallowed Art LLC · est. by Fabrizio Aiello
Dark tales,
cast and coded.
One small studio with four workshops. We publish horror, mystery and adventure comics under Gloomy Wood Comics; cast limited-run resin model kits by hand; build point-and-click games; and make the native Mac and iOS tools we needed for the rest of it.
- Comics
- 2 titles
- Kits
- Hand-cast
- Games
- macOS
- Apps
- Mac & iOS
What we make
Four workshops, one bench
Different trades, the same hands. A comic script becomes a game case; a game character becomes a kit on a resin sprue; the tools we build to draw one get finished properly and released on their own.
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Comics
Traditional art and Bronze Age storytelling, printed on newsprint, published under the Gloomy Wood Comics imprint.
Gloomy Wood Comics 02Resin kits
Garage-kit model figures sculpted digitally, printed, moulded and cast in resin in small numbered runs.
Model kits 03Games
Occult detective adventures for the Mac — hand-authored cases, deduction over inventory puzzles, and the editor they are written in.
Games & engines 04Apps
Native Mac and iOS software: a pixel editor, a catalogue for a shelf of physical media, and one small sharp utility.
SoftwareCatalogue
Everything we've made
Filter by workshop. Everything marked in development is genuinely still on the bench.
Comics Gloomy Wood Comics
Coming soon
The Bone Saint
When a bounty is placed on the bones of saints, a guardian emerges. Relic hunters, reliquaries, and a very long walk across a hostile map.
Gloomy Wood ComicsResin kits cast in small runs
In development
Character kits
Figures from our own books and games, sculpted digitally, printed at high resolution, moulded and cast by hand in resin. Multi-part, unpainted, on a display base.
Ask about availability
Cast 2019
Marley Door Knocker
An original sculpt of Dickens’ Marley — the face that greets Scrooge on his own front door, ringed by the hour the first spirit is promised for. Digitally sculpted, printed, moulded and cast by hand.
Ask about availabilityGames and the editor behind them
Coming soon
The Pale Death
A Lovecraftian point-and-click mystery. Autumn 1905, a boarding house in Caulbrook, and a case you solve by deduction and research rather than by rubbing inventory items together.
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Studio tool
Incunable
The editor our cases are written in: locations, characters, dialogue trees, clues and mysteries, all authored into plain JSON that the engine reads at startup.
EnquireApps native Mac & iOS
Coming soon
Minium
A native pixel editor arranged the way a Mac image editor should be — tools left, layers and swatches right, timeline along the bottom — built for point-and-click adventure art.
miniumpixels.com
In development
Comic Catalogue
Photograph comic panels and find them again later. Artists autocomplete from a directory of ~150 names, the lettering is read by OCR on import, and a ~340-term drawing-reference vocabulary tags what's in the picture.
Enquire
In development
Count Up
An interval timer for training: saved presets, audio cues that carry across the room, and a screen you can read mid-set from the floor.
EnquireNothing in this workshop yet.
The imprint
Our publishing arm, and the name our store trades under. Independent horror, mystery and adventure comics — traditional art, Bronze Age storytelling, and a deliberate preference for newsprint over gloss.
Published under Unhallowed Art LLC.
Visit the imprint
The first two things that smack your brain are the vibrant colors and excellent artwork. And on newsprint.
My youngest son has chosen HHH as his first comic book to start collecting. He's read it three times.
It is safe to say H.H. Hoover is the most unique comic I have read this month. It feels like a 70s-era comic.
The studio
Small on purpose
Unhallowed Art is the studio of Fabrizio Aiello — a fine arts degree, then professional 2D and 3D illustration, then game art, resin models and (by his own admission) smooth jazz.
The work runs on one principle: make the thing properly, then make the tool that makes the next one better. The pixel editor exists because the games needed sprites. The catalogue app exists because the reference shelf got out of hand. The comics came first and still set the tone for everything else.
- Trading asGloomy Wood Comics
- Founded byFabrizio Aiello
- DisciplinesInk, resin, code
- PlatformsPrint · macOS · iOS
Get in touch
Retail, press, or a commission
Stocking the comics, casting enquiries, review copies, or work-for-hire illustration — write to us and say which.