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MYSTERY OF THE INVISIBLE COW is NOW AVAILABLE!
A “choose your own” style adventure, INVISIBLE COW features characters from the SHAKES series of children’s books by J Robert Deans! When Shakes inherits a pub, Percie goes along to help, and ends up investigating the rumor of an invisible cow haunting the pub! Check it out at our Bookshop storefront, or check in on November 16th when the book will be available to order signed and remarked with a sketch for a pun-tastic personalized Christmas gift!
176pp, $16.99, 50+ Illustrations, ISBN 978-1-943348-36-7
On October 30, 2026, Meta will be changing their terms of service for pages representing professionals, artists, and companies. Having read the new terms, we have decided to delete our public “JRDcartoonist” and “Deans Family Productions” (DFP) Facebook pages. While we have used Meta services for many years, they have been making the service essentially useless to creatives and professionals with a new algorithm system which hides posts from followers unless a per-post fee is paid.
Meta’s newest Terms give Meta complete access to any and all content and sites connected to these pro pages for their AI to scrape for AI training or repurpose for Meta advertising, or whatever else they want. This update just reinforces our belief that in its current form, AI is nothing more than a cash grab for billionaires preying on everyone else. AI takes jobs from artists like us, and has a massive negative impact on the health of the planet. Therefore, the “JRDcartoonist” and DFP pages will be deleted on October 29th.
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A NEW BOOK!
STEER YOUR OWN STORY: THE MYSTERY OF THE INVISIBLE COW is now available! Use the link at the top of this page to go to Bookshop to order a copy, or check back November 16th for a link to buy a signed and sketched-in book directly from DFP!
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GRAND PUNWICK MYSTERY THEATER is the Patreon-exclusive series of short stories by Robert inspired by soft-boiled noir of the 1930s, the “thief with a hear of gold” trope of the early 20th century pulp magazines, and the 1940s science fiction cliffhanger serials.
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