Thursday, April 06, 2006

Theodor Seuss Geisel aka "Dr Seuss"
Someone who needs no introduction, Dr Seuss has been one of the greatest inspirations in my own art. His images are always filled with strange landscapes and architecture, bizarre factory machines and more weird looking creatures then you can shake a stick at.

2nd Gallery
Advertising Artwork Of Dr Seuss
Political Cartoons of Dr Seuss

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

David Sandlin
The best way I can describe Sandlin's paintings is as dream landscapes. There is a distortion in the perspective of objects and a warped atmosphere that would only make sense in a dream.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery
4th Gallery
Single Image

Monday, April 03, 2006

Roland Topor
Apart from having made some incredibly weird drawings, Topor is responsible for having been involved in the creation of some of my favorite films. He's credited as writer and graphic designer on Rene Laloux's "Fantastic Planet" as well as the novel "The Tenant" that became Roman Polanski's film of the same name.


2nd Website dedicated to Topor
Another Gallery

Thanks to Fufu, Luke and Tobias Tak for suggesting this artist to me.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Jacques Pyon
Here is a gallery of French underground comic artist, Jacques Pyon. His work has a goofy but demented cartoon style about it, kind of a sinister version of a Nickelodean cartoon. There is a strange array of creatures and characters through out his work. Be sure to check out this sketchbook of his. Lots of interesting drawings in there.

2nd Gallery

Monday, March 27, 2006

Leonora Carrington


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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
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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.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Trenton Doyle Hancock















Hancock has made a bizarre selection of abstracted cartoon like characters and environments. He draws himself into some of his imagery in superhero like outfits and is confronted by very weird ghoul looking creatures with bloodshot eyes. Great stuff.
2nd Gallery
Single Image
Single Image

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Dan Ouellette
This gallery consists of many incredibly detailed drawings with amazing shading effects done in graphite. There are many mutated and unusual humanoid creatures amongst this imagery. And I'm wearing a black tshirt with a drawing made by Ouellette on it, fitting that I post his website today.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Paul Rumsey
Rumsey's imagery is filled with incredible nightmare landscapes of giants, vultures, bodies stuck in architecture and all sorts of bizarre creatures. His charcoal drawing technique is amazing and the sometimes blurred out smeared faces really adds to the nightmare quality of the art. Be sure to click on the images in the gallery for much larger versions. And someone really needs to host a decent website for this guy, his work is far too amazing to be shown on Angelfire!

Friday, March 10, 2006

Max Anderson
Ok, the real artist of "Death and Candy" and "Pixy". Strangely, I'm constantly confusing Blanquet and Anderson together. Anderson also has a wild fairy tale like imaginary world filled with car people, organic living rugs made from dogs, and many other peculiar characters. Apart from his surreal comic work he's made sculptures, short films and some very bizarre installation pieces.