Beware of Gorgo!





















There's a great post with several old Gorgo comics over at Datajunkie, check em out.

Below is a panel from another Gorgo comic available at Datajunkie that I found really amusing.

Boris Artzybasheff














The Animation Archive has a great selection of Boris Artzybasheff's illustrations on their site. The works are categorized into the Machinalia, Neurotica, and Diablerie series of works.

See more illustrations by Artzybasheff in my previous post here.

Krampus





















Here's some early Krampus for Paul Rumsey. I've got a big post planned for this demonic Christmas character but here's an interesting recent depiction for now. I found this browsing photobucket, the name of the artist appears to be on the art but I can't really make it out.

Alberto Savinio

Souvenir d'un monde disparu, oil on canvas, 1928


La notte sul borgo, 1950


L'annunciazione, 1932






















La nostra anima, lithograph, 1944


The brother of the surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio was an Italian writer and painter like his more well known brother.

I discovered this artist thanks to a great post at Giornale Nuovo which has more large examples of Savnio's paintings.

More of his art can be seen in the following websites...
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Tuck's Series Vintage Halloween Postcards















Here's some really disturbing Halloween postcards I found on Flickr. These are from a Tuck's series of 150 vintage embossed Halloween postcards dated around 1910. I'll post more closer to Halloween.

Shadow of the Colossus Beasts
Here's an illustration showing all of the strange beasts that appear in this fantastic Playstation 2 game. Below are conceptual drawings for the Colossi. More illustrations from the game along with many scenes from in the game itself can be found in this gallery. Most of the illustrations are between pages 173 and on.

Paintings of Doom






The above is a doom painting from the Wenhaston Church in Suffolk.
The doom style of painting shows the final judgement of souls after death, a more detailed description can be found here. According to the SuffolkChurches site the doom painting was created between 1500 - 1520. To see a photo of the complete Doom painting, check this Flickr listing.

Check out this article at SuffolkChurches.com to read about this work which has an interesting history behind it.





Details from Doom paintings located in Oxfordshire..



Detail of a Doom painting from St Thomas Salisbury, dated 15th century.



Another Doom painting from St. Peter's Church, Chaldon, Surrey, created sometime before 1200 A.D. Keep clicking on the images at this site to see zoomed in versions of the work.

Further examples can be found here.

Painting From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp





















I found this fantastic painting while browsing flickr, unfortunately there was no artist name attached to it. If anyone knows who painted this I'd appreciate knowing, it's apparently someone out of this list. A larger copy of this can be found here. Groenling, the person who posted this work on flickr has a vast collection of photos taken from various churches and musesums all over Europe. Check it out. I'll be mentioning more artwork from this collection later as I search through it. Here's a great photo they took of a painting showing Saint George defeating the dragon.

Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Nicolaikirche, Heiligentaler altar, detail





















View a larger sized version here.