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All the Grabowsky that's fit to print!
Sacramento's Sinister Creature Con June 2026 was a blast and marked the public debut of many new works, including Marsena Shane's Romantic Planets book series as well as Black Bed Sheet Comics, Nick's party journal Diverse Arcanum, and a sheet music song book! Nick also got to meet Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween III, Fright Night 2), one of Nick's favorite directors, hobnobbed with a few BBS authors and many other dear friends, rubbed shoulders with Bill & Ted's Alex Winter, and sold lots of books! More news of upcoming appearances to come right here on this page! Photography by Oscar Benjamin.
A musical resurgence and second chance! If you can't already tell from Nick's music page on this site, he has a musical history from his days growing up in various churches, junior high band and high school choir, auditioned as a band front man, lived with members of Anaheim's early '90s punk rock scene....lots of stuff. So now it's 2026, Nick had a hospital near death experience and then Francy Weatherman, his fiance, passed, and Nick got obsessed with resurrecting half-completed projects including music. He compiled as much music he'd written in the 1980s and generated professional sheet music from them, and the result was "Songs I Wrote in the '80s," for piano & vocals all by Grabowsky, with even a CD in the works! Visit our music page (link at "Explore Grabowsky" at the top of each page) to find out more! An unforeseen result of this project led to the newly-formed Black Bed Sheet Records!
Black Bed Sheet Studios has moved! Yes, after all that designing and building it (as you can tell by the Youtube videos), it had a good run -from 2015 to 2025, but the deaths of Nick's parents and financial circumstances made it a good idea to sell the house/studios and relocate to a home practically down the street in the Foothill Farms region of Sacramento. A better place, and a nice fresh start! And in its revamped Black Bed Sheet Studios in the garage and piano studio in the house, Nick's creating great things!
Announcing Black Bed Sheet Comics! The first three issues of Grabowsky's RED WET DIRT series is out and available now! Next is the fourth, "The Freeway Reaper," right around the corner, and then more afterwards, including some from stories by other Black Bed Sheet Books authors! Stay tuned, and for further info and how to order visit the comics page on this site, which can be found through clicked the "Explore Grabowsky" at the top of each page.
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Updated 2026 website! As you can see, or you wouldn't be here. We've had this domain (Downwarden.com, which is named after a novel titled "The Downwardens" that Nick still has yet to finish), and we've been on this site since probably 2002. It's had many incarnations over the years, but it was time for an overhaul and we hope you absolutely love the new user-friendly and responsive modern look. Our new improvements are fresh from the mold, and Nick has been obsessively keeping up with his publishing company Black Bed Sheet Books, as well as Black Bed Sheet Comics and Black Bed Sheet Records, but rest assured this page will be filled with more content as we go!
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