Cool Birds

ABOUTALOPES

We’re Bill and Ted, and we like telling stories. We’re a couple of married artists living in Hogburg. We love making things together, and Grackalope Grotto is home to the projects we create as a duo. Bill is a visual artist and illustrator and creates the art and graphics for our projects. Ted is an audio editor and musician and creates the sound and music you hear in our work. The SuperBugOwl is our first project released via Grackalope Grotto, with a whole slew of upcoming shows and new stories also in the works. Stay tuned!

Outside the Grotto, we’re co-creators of the science-fantasy audio dramas Whist, Dunent, and Moodwart (all part of the greater Whist Cosmos), produced with our friend Mark Ronning in partnership with Corticalbulb. We are co-founders of the production studio Triple Individual and co-narrators of the comedy podcast Raspberry Gulf.

What are Grackalopes?

Rare and mysterious cryptids! They weave their nests of stories and dreams and nibble on narratives. The Grotto is where they live, and where they keep their trove of tales. Here's a little more about two of them who hang around this websitealope:

Bill Profile Image

BILL, she/her

Spawnpoint: What is now a grassy field in the Midwest

Nutshell: shy cozy forest goblin

Hobbies: drawing, reading, D&D, video games, cooking, baking bread, collecting perfume, devising aesthetics, coming up with situations

Interests: fashion, animation, cults, knickknacks, mushrooms, old commercials

Previous lives: graphic designer, bookseller, forklift driver, apparel designer, freelance artist

Favorite games: Disco Elysium; The Legend of Zelda (especially Ocarina of Time, Windwaker, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild); Infinity Nikki; Against the Storm; Stardew Valley; Elden Ring; Baldur’s Gate

Favorite places: Inside, and (to a lesser extent) Outside

Likes: when it is raining

Mediums: asdf

Fun facts: asdf
Ted Profile Image

TED, they/them

Spawnpoint: Seattle, Washington

Nutshell: nonbinary rainbow noise witch

Hobbies: making music, making games, audio experiments, painting, photography, trying to meditate, making handmade pizza, field recording, daydreaming

Interests: wires and blinking lights, odd noises, uncanny places, half-broken electronics, film/music/sound/art history

Previous lives: videographer/producer/editor, graphic designer, magazine art director, marketing director, copywriter

Favorite games: Thief: The Dark Project; Myst/Riven; Zork: Nemesis; Kentucky Route Zero; Bernband

Favorite places: The studio, The Arctic Circle, middle-of-nowhere gas stations, The 233rd Age, The Black Lodge, lonesome deserts, deep space

Likes: experimental music, make-believe, improv, sound, bicycle adventures, Star Trek (original series)

Mediums: sound/music, abstract painting, graphic design, 3D/VR, typography, video art

Fun facts: will stop at nothing to record a weird noise; can unicycle