Ruin has come to our fandom.

You remember that ancient artist, proudful and obscene, pontificating acerbically from his slimy perch above the Net.

Many of my years dwelt I in the rumours and shadows, nothing but a mere shade myself, and yet I began to tire of... his efforts in creating artificial scarcity. Singular unsettling tales suggested his site itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnameable treasure trove. With torrents and Rapidshare, I bent every effort towards collection and recovery of thouse long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of my sanity on... swarthy Anons... and sturdy scanners... At last, in the salt soaked posts beneath the lowest pages of /furi/, we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian smut. Our every step unsettled ancient ~chans and bulletin boards, but we were in a realm of death and madness. In the end, I alone fled, laughing and wailing, through thouse blackened echoconferences of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me.

You remember that ancient artist, proudful and obscene. He purposefully limited number of prints of each of his drawings he would ever be willing to produce. Such practice... It is a festering abomination! In the end, even his choice of cheap watermarked paper would lead to last of his legacy simply crumbling into flakes of discolored rot, and no one would be able to claim once renowned in infamy art pieces from the ravenous clutching grip... of James M. Hardiman.

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...*ahem*

Purple prose and nonsensical bullshite aside, here's what I managed to gather:
* Once upon a time, JMH had a site from which he used to sell his stuff;
* On that site there was a section for limited quantity prints: Jim was a big proponent of the idea that all things abundant (like, say, sunshine - or air) has no intrinsic value - and so the concept of 'printing on demand' remained utterly inimical to his credo;
* Said prints were listed with internal gallery numbers, and removed from the listing when arbitrary number of prints (say, 50 - or 25) was sold. Of course, some of the prints were more popular than others, and were sold out while their less popular brethren were still listed as "in stock". Now, what do you think happened with the internal gallery number of the now absent print? If you answered "it was assigned to a new painting" - you were right. Such practice, naturally, made it a bit hard to track down every single piece of Jim's work and, given the site's cocooning and perpetual "under construction" status during Jim's later years, makes it almost impossible to reconstruct the full list for anyone who missed JMH's zenith and has no in-roads to hypothetical people in the know. Basically, I know nothing;
* Some of the limited prints are naught but singular pages from JMH's art albums (already posted on this very site), others - like Caterwaul Inc. portrait series - were initially drawn for their respective projects, and then remastered for selling as stand-alone limited run prints;
* I tried to rename files to reflect their place in hypothetical full list of prints, but - and I stress that again - not only was I very late to the party, I also have zero physical copies of JMH work to boot.

Files named in such a way:
>>year.ID.print_name(-small).extension
* year - the year the print dated with; if unknown - noted as such; there may be two sets of date marked on some images - in which case WMG was applied;
* ID - internal gallery ID from the gallery page dragged from some gods-forsaken pit of despair from before JMH's site was purged of the gallery in question; if unknown - is absent; if too small of a number in correlation with year of printing - indicates previous image missing;
* print_name - name of the print; if unknown - listed as such;
* (-small) - if present, indicates image of criminally small resolution.

In the end:
* this is by no means a comprehensive listing - there are quite a few holes, and the later years prints (By The Tail series) are completely missing, for example;
* there will be intersections with galleries already posted;
* I sincerely hope to see someday a full body of Jim's work in decent quality posted here (maybe even with .TIFFs or equivalent - hey, one can dream), but if such an occasion will come to be - it would be through no effort of my own, however strongly it may irk me;
* Also, I reserve the right to be completely wrong about everything - in which case: bite me.

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Artist:
FurAffinity - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/Skunkworks/
InkBunny - https://inkbunny.net/Skunkworks
Official site - defunct.

First, ICWhatUDidThere.jpg.

Second, while this one likely isn't complete either, You can find some of the stuff for the holes here: https://e621.net/posts?tags=james_m_hardiman++

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