This wallpaper celebrates the public release of my "Spider Meat" PDF, another Uresia piece with (of course) another map in it, because that's the kind of loon I am.

This one is different in a couple of ways, though, since Spider Meat is a free PDF, instead of a commercial one. You can snag it from the Cumberland Games "Free Stuff of the Moment" page (Google knows the way), and ... see if you can make sense of it. If not, it's free anyway

Spider Meat was originally written (and mapped) for a Hurricane Katrina charity anthology book, and the original was done on a very crammed deadline, so the map re-uses compass and border elements in kind of a hasty way, and isn't my finest hour. But the feel of it suits the equally chaotic nature of the article it illustrates, and I've become very fond of them both; hopefully you'll forgive the warts and enjoy the witch's brew ...

I did this with the usual media: ordinary felt-tip marker on cheap paper, piece by piece, scanned and assembled in Illustrator and Photoshop. The handwriting font used for the note is "Yank," based on my own writing. The other fonts used are Apple Butter and Atlas of the Magi, also my own work.