ALYSSA ALARCÓN SANTO | CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Alyssa Alarcón Santo puts her love of organization to use as Planet Scumm's creative director. She lays out the books, pilots the illustration team, keeps the website rolling, and occasionally has time for some artwork.
Her time out-of-orbit is spent doing freelance illustration and design. Her love of meticulous hand lettering, cynical philosophy, and all things literary are common threads in her artwork.
PROJECT GALLERIES:
BLOG POSTS:
Read Planet Scumm’s interview with Issue #9’s cover artist, Washington-based illustrator (and Scumm’s creative director) Alyssa Alarcón Santo.
See how Planet Scumm became the savior of sci-fi, and laugh at the mistakes we made along the way.
Read Planet Scumm’s interview with our own creative director and Issue #7 spot illustrator, Alyssa Alarcón Santo.
Read an excerpt from the story Dance Dance Apocalypse by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, featured in Issue #7 of Planet Scumm.
FEATURED IN THE SHOP:
Pick Up a Pack of Papered Pipers!
This pack includes five books featuring the work of Stoker Award winning novelist Hailey Piper—Planet Scumm issues #6, #7, #9, #11, and #13. All products are A5” paperback books with a soft touch cover.
Issue #10 is an A5” paperback book with a soft touch cover
If you’re reading this in hardcopy, then congrats on being totally ripped and possessing the upper-body strength required to lift a double-issue of Planet Scumm! (If you’re reading this digitally then, uh… sick storage medium, brah.)
With this, our tenth issue, Planet Scumm has officially entered double digits, and what better way to celebrate than by packing this issue with a full ten stories? We like to think most issues have a little something for everyone, so it stands to reason that Supergiant-X has several somethings for everyone!
Lethal haute couture and militarized cleaning services? We’ve got that. Titan-sized war machines and megafauna? You’ll find a couple. Plus pet-stealing aliens, exorcism-for-hire, world-ending AIs, malevolent doormen, mirror universe tourism, and phantasmal migration.
To be honest, this issue’s so big it’s entirely possible one of Scummy’s brood hid something in there that we didn’t notice. If you hear any odd noises coming out of the table of contents, or notice an occasional bulge under the cover, you might want to proceed with caution.
Actually, forget caution—throw this bad boy wide open! You’re ripped! (Or in possession of at least 16GB of storage space!) If things get dicey, this issue can also serve as a weighty improvised weapon.
Issue #10 features the stories:
Thessaly by Lauren O’Donoghue
A Little Galaxy by Joachim Heijndermans
An Abridged History of the End of the World by Ben Hennesy
The Door Man by Christopher Moylan
Katu and the Eye of Flesh by Stefan Sokoloski
Deep Clean by Matt Hornsby
Desert Man by Joe Anderson
Hector Brim by Sam Rebelein
A Thousand Cranes of Blood and Steel by Ashley Naftule
Ghosts of Lone Pine by Joshuah Stolaroff
Original art by Sam Rheaume, Alyssa Alarcón Santo, Erika Schnatz, Camille Villanueva, Maura McGonagle, and Clare Fuller.
Purchase of an Issue #10 ebook includes a zipped file containing (1) PDF and (1) EPUB.
If you’re reading this in hardcopy, then congrats on being totally ripped and possessing the upper-body strength required to lift a double-issue of Planet Scumm! (If you’re reading this digitally then, uh… sick storage medium, brah.)
With this, our tenth issue, Planet Scumm has officially entered double digits, and what better way to celebrate than by packing this issue with a full ten stories? We like to think most issues have a little something for everyone, so it stands to reason that Supergiant-X has several somethings for everyone!
Lethal haute couture and militarized cleaning services? We’ve got that. Titan-sized war machines and megafauna? You’ll find a couple. Plus pet-stealing aliens, exorcism-for-hire, world-ending AIs, malevolent doormen, mirror universe tourism, and phantasmal migration.
To be honest, this issue’s so big it’s entirely possible one of Scummy’s brood hid something in there that we didn’t notice. If you hear any odd noises coming out of the table of contents, or notice an occasional bulge under the cover, you might want to proceed with caution.
Actually, forget caution—throw this bad boy wide open! You’re ripped! (Or in possession of at least 16GB of storage space!) If things get dicey, this issue can also serve as a weighty improvised weapon.
Issue #10 features the stories:
Thessaly by Lauren O’Donoghue
A Little Galaxy by Joachim Heijndermans
An Abridged History of the End of the World by Ben Hennesy
The Door Man by Christopher Moylan
Katu and the Eye of Flesh by Stefan Sokoloski
Deep Clean by Matt Hornsby
Desert Man by Joe Anderson
Hector Brim by Sam Rebelein
A Thousand Cranes of Blood and Steel by Ashley Naftule
Ghosts of Lone Pine by Joshuah Stolaroff
Original art by Sam Rheaume, Alyssa Alarcón Santo, Erika Schnatz, Camille Villanueva, Maura McGonagle, and Clare Fuller.
Issue #9 is an A5” paperback book with a soft touch cover
AS HEARD ON “TRANSMISSION SCUMM!” Now That’s What I Call Scummy!, available now!
Space-radio shock jocks the Scumm Buds are back at it again with this hilarious, unrated, and only occasionally lethal collection of tracks from their program. Featuring such memetic viruses as:
“Wash This Pain From My Brain (And My Free Will, Too)”
“Dragon In the Wagon”
“Boogie Bash on Fear Island”
“Space Bound and Down”
“My Heart Melts For You (Plus Some Other Parts, Too)”
“Ganymede, Oh Me, Oh My”
That, plus two dozen versions of “Monster Mash” and, hey, we got “Alice’s Restaurant” on here too somehow! Why the heck not?
“Now That’s What I Call Scummy” is available wherever sound exists. Simply mail, telephone, or telepathically project your current location to Planet Scumm, 0101110 Fayke St., Bloomfield, NJ 1000101, and wait for Planet Scumm to appear. It won’t take long….
Issue #9 features the stories:
Brain Trust by Hailey Piper
Ahead of Dragons by David Busboom
On the Origin of Fear by Clarissa Van Dell
Sierra Starfall and the Elders of the Spaceways by Pedro Iniguez
Marigolds in Winter by Elena Sichrovsky
Song for Ganymede by Austin P. Sheehan
Original art by Alyssa Alarcón Santo and Sam Rheaume
Issue #7 is an A5” paperback book with a soft touch cover.
Reader - are you in a secret place, far from suspicious eyes? Can you hear the buzz of drones above? Are the shades drawn? No? Quickly, quickly, close them NOW before you crack open this latest directive from Planet Scumm.
By now you surely know the Powers That Be will KILL to conceal these tales. Tales of subjugated planets forced to dance for their conquerors’ entertainment. Of lonesome space wanderers who abandoned their generation ships. Of rebels trying to overthrow oppressive governments. Some use science. Others, sympathy. Most fail.
There’s rumors of a lonely place where dead and defeated revolutionaries serve a sentence of sorts, waiting out the end times in a haze of cigarette smoke and bureaucracy. But that way is not for you, Reader. Not yet.
Look to your left, to the steel door at the end of the hall. The door that wasn’t there a moment ago. I fear They’ve found you, Reader, and now you must flee. Run to the door, open it, step through. Close it behind you. Just a few seconds. Just long enough to feel the dirt beneath your feet and a warm, ancient sun on your face. Then turn and come back to the Cause.
But be warned. The world you return to won’t be the same as the one you leave.
Featuring the stories:
Zone 59 by Rebecca Gransden
Dance Dance Apocalypse by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
Reptile by Hailey Piper
The Perpetual Empire by Aaron Emmel
The Nearest Far-Away Place by Frank Smith
At the Border Post by Noah Lemelson
Original artwork by Erika Schnatz and Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Issue #5 is an A5” paperback book with a soft touch cover.
The most fascinating tragedies, comedies, crimes, capers, home cooking recipes, and fables live for all eternity in the databanks of Scummy’s interstellar propaganda saucer. Whatever his sinister intentions, you too can now visit the data-vaults of Planet Scumm in a format deemed appropriate for the technology level of your planet (give or take 70 years). Scummy’s righteous mess of science-fiction goodness can live in your home or on your compute-box….FOREVER.
FEATURED STORIES:
“Ain’t We Got Fun” by Paul C.K. Spears
The Importance of Good Breeding by Richard Wren
The Tower by Jackson Lewis Monk
Quarterly Report on Trans-Dimensional Holdings by John Rodzvilla
Original art from Alyssa Alarcón Santo and Sam Rheaume
Purchase of an Issue #5 ebook includes a zipped file containing (1) PDF and (1) EPUB.
The most fascinating tragedies, comedies, crimes, capers, home cooking recipes, and fables live for all eternity in the databanks of Scummy’s interstellar propaganda saucer. Whatever his sinister intentions, you too can now visit the data-vaults of Planet Scumm in a format deemed appropriate for the technology level of your planet (give or take 70 years). Scummy’s righteous mess of science-fiction goodness can live in your home or on your compute-box….FOREVER.
FEATURED STORIES:
“Ain’t We Got Fun” by Paul C.K. Spears
The Importance of Good Breeding by Richard Wren
The Tower by Jackson Lewis Monk
Quarterly Report on Trans-Dimensional Holdings by John Rodzvilla
Original art from Alyssa Alarcón Santo and Sam Rheaume
EVERYTHING! Volume 1 is an A5” paperback with a soft-touch cover.
“EVERYTHING! Volume 1” presents the first eighteen stories from science fiction magazine Planet Scumm in their most definitive form (so far). The diverse collection of authors found in this anthology come from all over the world, bringing us tales from the future; far future; far, far future; and even the day before yesterday.
In these pages, lone-wolf environmentalists meet hard-drinking disco wizards. Spacebugs from beyond the stars feast on wooden starships. A friendly neighborhood lobster finds itself the only witness to a murder. And somewhere, between the tales of strife and triumph, a gooey figure sits at the helm of his own personal planetoid, charting a lazy circuit around the galaxy….
Remember—if it isn’t a slimy, stitched-together superbook of superlative sci-fi stories, it isn’t… PLANET SCUMM!
Purchase of an EVERYTHING! Volume 1 ebook includes a zipped file containing (1) PDF and (1) EPUB.
EVERYTHING! Volume 1 presents the first eighteen stories from science fiction magazine Planet Scumm in their most definitive form (so far). The diverse collection of authors found in this anthology come from all over the world, bringing us tales from the future; far future; far, far future; and even the day before yesterday.
In these pages, lone-wolf environmentalists meet hard-drinking disco wizards. Spacebugs from beyond the stars feast on wooden starships. A friendly neighborhood lobster finds itself the only witness to a murder. And somewhere, between the tales of strife and triumph, a gooey figure sits at the helm of his own personal planetoid, charting a lazy circuit around the galaxy….
Remember—if it isn’t a slimy, stitched-together superbook of superlative sci-fi stories, it isn’t… PLANET SCUMM!
Includes a zipped file containing (1) PDF and (1) EPUB