MONDAY MISCELLANEA - MAY 30 -- ADDENDUM

I had to add this picture. I just saw it. It's by artist David Palumbo and I am absolutely in love with it (or maybe it's with her).

Either way, she knows her enemy and looks pretty handy with that big knife.

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MONDAY MISCELLANEA - MAY 30, 2011

Hey! Here are a random sampling of awesome pictures from my image morgue!

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DARK WORLDS 6 SNEAK PEEK 3!

Here's another sneak preview of finished artwork from Dark Worlds #6 coming this summer! It's going to be an exciting issue!


See more here!

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...AND I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD

One of my favourite things about HBO's Game of Thrones is the opening credits. It is an arresting little sequence that brings the land of Westeros to life in a really interesting way. I also like the theme music and yesterday and today that little ditty has been stuck in my head.

So I though I'd share. Enjoy.



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ADELE

The ladies at the place I work all love Adele. (well, with one exception, but there's always one contrarian, isn't there?). Adele is a British singer who is topping the charts and winning awards on the scepter'd isle. I gather she hasn't hit the North American market in a big way yet, but she has a wonderful and powerful voice.

She doesn't have many videos and she doesn't fit the "corporate look" that most singers seem to have to have in order to make it big, but she has talent in a major way.

Check out her songs on youtube or go to her website.

Or watch the video below. Better yet, don't watch it. Just listen.




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AND THERE IT WAS...

Yesterday, completely unexpectedly and out of the blue, my wife placed two Cadbury Cream Eggs on my desk at work. I was so surprised and overwhelmed. I had been craving one of these all throughout the day and my wife -- my loving wife -- who knows me inside and out, sensed it and went out of her way to make me happy. That is only one of the many reasons why I love her so much.

A completely unexpected, unasked for act of pure love.

Well, I might have mentioned something about a Cream Egg earlier in the day. I think at breakfast I might have said something. I think I may have mentioned it during our break. And then again at lunchtime. Oh, yeah and the time I stopped her in the hallway at work to talk to her I might have mentioned something about a craving for a Cadbury Cream Egg.

Come to think of it, that's probably why she said "Now you can fill your face and shut up about it!" when she gave them to me.

Still -- she's the best, isn't she? I love her like there's no tomorrow.

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ALL PULP INTERVIEWS ME!

Joshua Reynolds, author of Dracula Lives! Has posted an interview with me at ALL PULP.


His questions were impudent and irreverent and I tried to answer them accordingly. Swing by and experience the wit and brilliance as Josh and I go back and forth. Leave a comment and tell Josh what you think!


UPDATE: You can't actually leave a comment at ALL PULP so just leave a comment here and I'll pass it on to Josh.

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BATGIRL...?

Pre WW1 print by A. Penot

A. Penot, Bat Girl, 1925

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, The Enchanted Forest by Grenbry Outhwaite, 1921

Germany, 1892. Artist unknown

Mae West in the "Belle of the Nineties", 1934



Margaret Brundage, 1933

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MONDAY MISCELLANEA - VICTORIA DAY EDITION

I know Monday is almost over but here in BC it is a holiday. It is Victoria Day where we celebrate the birth of the great unamused monarch herself.

So in honour of Victoria Day I present a special edition featuring my favourite Victorian painter John William Waterhouse.

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DO YOU LOVE MONSTERS?

If you're like me (and a surprising number of people are) then you love monsters. And where would you have come by your love of monsters? Well, I think perhaps this little magazine might have something to do with it:

That's right, FAMOUS MONSTERS, Forrest. J. Ackerman's beloved magazine which featured covers that featured wonderful portraits of famous monsters most of which were painted by Basil Gogos. So let's read what Wikipedia has to say about Basil Gogos:

"During the 1960s, Basil Gogos provided a steady stream of illustrations for a variety of New York-based publications. The majority of his work during this period was for men's adventure magazines for which he painted many scenes of World War II battles, jungle perils and crime as well as cheesecake portraits of beautiful women. However, Gogos' greatest impact as an illustrator was the work he did for Warren Publishing.


Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, created by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman, premiered in 1958 and was aimed at young readers who were then discovering the classic horror films of the '30s and '40s on television. The magazine's covers were usually eye-catching close-ups of horror movie characters. Gogos' first work for Warren was the cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland #9 in 1960 featuring an impressionistic portrait of Vincent Price from House of Usher painted in shades of red, yellow and green. Over the next two decades, he created almost 50 covers for Famous Monsters, many of which have become iconic images of that period. Gogos also provided cover art for several other Warren magazines including Creepy, Eerie, Spaceman, Wildest Westerns and The Spirit.

Basil Gogos' Famous Monsters cover art featured most of the classic horror characters such as The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, King Kong, Godzilla and The Creature from the Black Lagoon and popular horror actors like Boris Karloff, Béla Lugosi, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Gogos often captured his subjects in an array of vivid colors using a technique in which the artist imagined the character bathed in colors from multiple light sources. He enjoyed painting monsters more than most of his more conventional assignments because of the freedom he was given and because of the challenge of painting such unusual characters which he endeavoured to portray as both frightening and sympathetic.

In the late 1970s, Gogos gave up full time commercial illustration to devote himself more to his original goal of doing fine art. He produced personal art pieces in watercolor and other media, while earning his livelihood as a photo retoucher in the ad department of United Artists. While there, he also did occasional illustrations for movie posters. Gogos later moved into advertising where he produced presentation sketches and storyboards for commercials for a major ad agency.

Due to a resurgence of interest in classic horror films and collectibles, Gogos returned to the horror genre in the 1990s. During this time, new Gogos monster portraits appeared on trading cards, lithographs and the covers of Monsterscene magazine. He has also painted CD covers for rock stars Rob Zombie, The Misfits and Electric Frankenstein."

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CATHERINE JEFFREY JONES

More wonderful artwork from Catherine Jeffrey Jones who passed away yesterday.

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