Friday, March 24, 2006

Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith is most famous for his association with H.P Lovecraft. Both of them contributed stories to pulp volumes such as Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Astounding Stories, etc. He wrote his own weird fiction but was also likely influenced by Lovecraft in creating additional Cthulu Mythos based stories. He was also a poet, sculptor and an amazing artist of peculiar characters and creatures. Thanks to Luke for the link.



Basil Wolverton

Wolverton is probably best known for his goofy abstracted cartoon faces and bodies that have appeared in magazines, gift cards, tshirts and recently, small statues. But he's also one of the earliest comic artists of bizarre tales. He's made many comics in the horror and science fiction genre. His imaginative creatures and incredible hatch mark drawing style always made him stand out against the rest.

16 Drawings Of The Apocalypse
2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery (In 3-D)
Single Image
Article
2nd Article
3rd Article
Downloadable Comic - Powerhouse Pepper

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Matthew Kirscht
Here is a demented collection of paintings that involve demonic candy, bats, pumpkin headed creatures and many other Halloween themed creatures.



Sunday, March 19, 2006

Richard Sala
One of my favorite comic artists, Sala's stories have a 1930's-40's crime mystery horror vibe about them that you don't see anywhere else. There's always some masked villan or peculiar monster creeping in the shadows of his stories.