Dave Felton

Dave Felton is an illustrator of weird fiction, as well as a figurative artist and cartoonist based in northern New Jersey. His scratchboard illustrations have appeared in books published by Broken Eye Books, Dim Shores, Dunhams Manor Press, Grimscribe Press, and The Lovecraft eZine. For Cadabra Records, Felton has done album art for Jon Padgett’s 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism (2018) and Origami Dreams (2020), Selections from H.P. Lovecraft: A Short Biography by S.T. Joshi (2019), and provided art for Cadabra Illustrated’s The Haunter of the Dark (2019) and A History of the Necronomicon (2020). More recently, Felton’s art appeared on Jon Padgett’s 7” The Mindfulness of Horror Practice (2023). His art has been used for Cadabra Coven fan merch designed by Jason DiModica, and he is occasionally responsible for Cadabra Coven Minicomix, when the stars are right. 

Lastly and most importantly, 2023 will see the release of Thomas Ligotti’s Crampton by Chiroptera Press, a volume illustrated with Felton’s scratchboards and sure to be sought after by readers and collectors of weird fiction.