Mike Davis
Hermann Serient, Bosch and Brueghel appear to be heavy influences in Mike's work. With some modern pop culture references thrown in it makes for some very interesting artwork.

Scroll down this page to see what these look like hanging on a wall.

Janko Domsic
"Janko Domsic’s coloured pencil and ballpoint drawings and their texts present a combination of biography and a kind of mathematical philosophy of the world. Domsic plays with language, images and symbolic signs that interpenetrate each other. According to the story in one of his drawings, Domsic was born in the Croatian town of Malunje, but very little else is known about his evidently asocial life."
quote taken from here.

Gallery with article on the artist.
More work from the above gallery can be seen here.
2nd gallery with biography
Single Image

Monster Show On Flickr
Domy Books hosted an art show of Monsters last weekend. Check out all the monster artwork that showed up, including some of mine.

Scottie Wilson





















"At the age of 44 he began doodling with one of the fountain pens that he collected for resale in his shop and discovered his passion for art. In his own words:

“I’m listening to classical music one day – Mendelssohn – when all of a sudden I dipped the bulldog pen into a bottle of ink and started drawing – doodling I suppose you’d call it – on the cardboard tabletop. I don’t know why. I just did. In a couple of days – I worked almost ceaselessly – the whole of the tabletop was covered with little faces and designs. The pen seemed to make me draw, and them images, the faces and designs just flowed out. I couldn’t stop – I’ve never stopped since that day.”

It was there that he began his work, embodying a personal code of morality wherein characters called “evils and greedies” are juxtaposed with naturalistic symbols of goodness and truth. " quote taken from here.

Selected Works from the Henry Boxer Gallery
Scroll down this page to see 14 works by Wilson
Article from Raw Vision
2nd article from Raw Vision with paintings
Article and Painting
2 Paintings
Single Image
Single Image
Single Image
Photographs of Scottie Wilson

You can purchase a book of Wilson's artwork here.

Lorraine Vail






















This gallery contains many bronze sculptures of strange animals real and imaginary.

2nd Gallery

Jonathan Hunt Beastiary






















Here's a selection of creatures taken from Hunt's "Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts". The "Ziphius, or water - owl" is especially strange.

Drawing From The Hidden Archive
Luke Przybylski brought this blog to my attention. I found this strange drawing posted on there.

Johfra
The Visionary Revue has several great articles detailing the life of Johfra.

Wendy Mukluk
Although this gallery is mostly focused on photography, there is an interesting assortment of lithographs and etchings of peculiar imagery. I found the image above of large slabs of meat being carved up in a fairy house especially weird.

Check out the Lovecraftian city at the bottom of this gallery.

Jim Leon





















Click the magnifying glass pics here to see the artwork. This page has more of the odd characters as shown above. And check out the weird drawings on this page.
2nd Gallery

James Cawthorn
Fantasy artist James Cawthorn illustrated what is considered the first graphic novel from the UK, "The Jewel In The Skull". He also illustrated Michael Moorcock's "Stormbringer" and "The Crystal and the Amulet".

You can find additional artwork by Cawthorn here.

Vincent Cartwright Vickers - The Google Book

"FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.

The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food.

All the birds try to avoid the Google, because they don't like him and he frightens them; but some of them he can never catch, especially those with the red beaks. You can never see these birds anywhere except in Google land which is far far away, and only children can go there; and even they must be nearly – but not quite – asleep."

Rory Hayes



Rory was an underground comic artist who contributed to books such as Arcade, Bijou Funnies, Insect Fear, Snatch, Cunt Comics, Hydrogen Bomb and Skull.

"Fascinated by horror since an early age, he published his own comic 'Bogeyman' in 1968. An avid experimenter with drugs, Rory Hayes died in his sleep from an overdose on August 29, 1983, only 34 years old." quote taken from here.

Click the following numbers to see some of Rory's artwork.
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

Click the following numbers to read "The Creatures In The Tunnel"
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Panels From "The Thing In The Room!"
1 - 2

Panels From "The Transformation Of Dr Cline"
1 - 2

Lorzi "Season Of The Witch"
1 - 2

Page From "Last Hit"

A Dark Night Comic Strip

If you enjoy the work of Rory Hayes you might be interested in checking out Dan Nadel's amazing collection of unknown comics visionaries "Art Out Of Time". It includes several short comics by Hayes. And I have it on good word from Dan that a collection exclusively devoted to Rory's comics is in the works!

Stephen Gammell






















Here is a selection of illustrations depicting the odd tales from the book "Scary Stories". I've scanned and uploaded these images myself. I've been a great fan of these paintings since childhood. The expressive watercolor paintings, ink blots pooled into monster faces and mutated limbs, it all provokes a unique nightmare world unlike anything else.

You can purchase the books illustrated by Gammell here.

Read more about Stephen Gammell here.

Japanese Ghosts and Demons
Scroll of the Hungry Ghosts
2nd Gallery
Legends, Warriors, Ghosts
4th Gallery
Yokai
Image from Exorcist Scroll
If you keep clicking the pics on this gallery you'll find very large sized pictures from the Hell Scroll.
Article about Ghosts, Demons and Spirits in Japanese Lore.
Various images of Oni
Ghosts of Japan

Watch the trailer to this film titled "Japanese Hell".

Check out the descriptions of the 16 levels of this Chinese version of hell.

An artist friend of mine Adam Buttrick brought this site to my attention with many strange ink drawings of Japanese beasts.