Jon Chandler
Chandler has made a very bizarre comic strip "Battle Of The Planets" which is filled with many strange looking characters getting into very strange adventures. The costumed character with the pointed nose and ears brings to mind an art brut version of Maurice Sendak. Really amazing work.

Eleanor Spiess Ferris
This gallery contains a selection of surreal paintings, many of which seem partly influenced by Remedios Varo.

Piotr Marek
Marek was a Polish artist who died at the early age of 34 in 1985. His paintings are filled with hauntingly surreal environments with figures who's anatomies are often blended into the landscapes. One painting shows an eye socket as a glowing entrance to a cave. The paintings are very powerful and come across as drug induced nightmares.

You can see additional work by Marek such as drawings of his at this gallery.

Philippe Caza
Here is one of my favorite fantasy artists. Caza's pulp magazine style is a good example of the best Heavy Metal magazine ever had to offer.
His graphic novel "L'ÂGE D'OMBRE" is one of my favorites and has had a great influence in my own comic making. This site isn't in english but is easy enough to navigate through the various galleries of art.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery

Gerard Justin Ferrari
There's some very peculiar sculptures of unusual objects in this gallery. The terra cotta sculptures in the "Orphaned Teapots" exhibit mixes the characteristics of living creatures with tea pots. Very interesting work.

Premysl Martinec
Martinec's drawings are filled with abstracted characters in surreal landscapes. There's a disturbing array of loosely rendered cartoonish characters bleeding from bizarre wounds.

Brian Mckenzie
Brian has a fantastic blog where he's posted a selection of his bizarre prints. There is an emphasis on strange characters in costumes and odd creatures. Scroll down his blog to the "seven viruses" drawing, really amazing work. Be sure to check back often as I'm sure there will be much more strange imagery posted here in the future.

Link found thanks to BibliOdyssey

Norbert Kox















Thanks to Luke for reminding me of this amazing artist!

Rob Sato is the guest artist at "Partyka" this month. There's 30 paintings and drawings in his gallery there, check it out.

Christophe Blanc
This gallery consists of dozens of bizarre drawing series, from Monsters, The Mystique and even Cowboys. Click on the flowers here to see some of the most interesting art on the site.

Dreams of Pantagruel
Here are 120 woodcuts of characters from 1565 that would fit perfectly in a Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Brueghel picture. These are some of the most fascinating and unusual depictions of characters and creatures that I've ever seen. There seems to be some confusion as to who actually made these. Officially these were made by François Rabelais, but according to BibliOdyssey they might have been made by François Desprez.

Click here to see a selection of these reinterpreted by none other than Salvador Dali.
Click the following numbers to see some monsters done in a similar style to those linked to above. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

Artworks found at BibliOdyssey.

Dante's Inferno
Here is a collection of high quality scans from an Italian copy of "The Divine Comedy".
Here is an interesting illustration of the Inferno.
Gustave Dore's illustrations of Hell.
An illustration from Dante's Inferno by William Blake.
Click here to see a collection of clips from the 1912 silent film based upon Dante's Inferno.


The following isn't associated with Dante's Inferno, at least not directly, but I wanted to show you a few more interesting works related to the Devil before the day is over.
Here is a painting of Hell by the Limbourg Brothers.
Click here to see an engraving by Albrecht Duerer of a Knight, Death and the Devil.
I linked to Barlowe back in January, but here is a direct link to his "Inferno" painting series.

John Martin's "Paradise Lost"
John Martin's "Paradise Lost" mezzotint etching series is one of the most interesting visions of Hell. The vast cavernous landscapes with giant ancient architecture makes Hell out to be a place I'd really like to visit. His glowing white figures against darkened backgrounds creates a very strange dream like vision. His depiction of the Fall of Babylon is one of my favorite works of his. Be sure to click on the image here to see additional details of the mezzotint etching.