Saturday, August 12, 2006

Shigeru Mizuki
A Japanese manga artist best known for his "Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro" comics, many of which can be downloaded from this site.
His strange monster imagery is mostly based on Yokai legends.
Be sure to browse through all 3 pages of the gallery of his artwork at this site.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Heinrich Kley
Kley was a German caricaturist, editorial cartoonist and painter. Much of his imagery focused on fantastic scenes depicting humorous and often disturbing imagery, some of which I've posted below. I found the picture above of the giant catterpillar attacking a woman especially creepy.

Toy trains animated like snakes.

A man having his insides pulled open by a crowd of miniature people.

People climbing out of the artist's skull and absorbing into the drawing surface.
Daniel Johnston
"Daniel Johnston is a prolific American singer, songwriter and artist. Johnston suffers from bipolar disorder and often writes surreal songs about his hallucinations and mood swings." Quote taken from wikipedia.

There's a film being released about Johnston, you can find more info about that here.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Bill Dunlap
Lots of drawings of monsters and other odd things on display here.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Gore Shriek
This gallery hosts pdf files of issues from "Gore Shriek", a trashy monster horror comic from the 80's. Scattered through some of the issues are creatures like this. Check it out.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Sea Monsters
This first link is an interesting array of small images of various sea abominations.

There are a few illustrations by Warwick Goble of sea monster attacking in this link. I really like these two images and the text accompanying them is great.

"A sudden appearance out of the sea of a race of amphibious monsters, capable of wiping man out of existence."

"Loathsome animals of huge size will creep over the masses of ice."

Here is a quote from the article related to the above illustrations taken from here.

"Fossil remains of crabs, 6ft. in length, have been discovered, and such enormous creatures might -- owing to some cause or other -- multiply exceedingly.

If we imagine a shark that could raid out upon the land, or a tiger that could take refuge in the sea, we should have a fair suggestion of what a terrible monster a large predatory crab might prove. And, so far as zoological science goes, we must, at least, admit that such a creation is an evolutionary possibility.

Then there are the cuttlefish, the octopus, and other denizens of the deep, any of which might conceivably grow in numbers, and extinguish man. "

Click the image on this link to see a larger version of this depiction of a whale and other sea monsters.

There is an interesting depiction of a sea serpent here.

This old map of Iceland has some interesting illustrations of fabled monsters around the island.

This link has no artwork but there are some good descriptions of legendary sea monsters.

Last but not least, here's pictures of real sea monsters.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Pulp Madness!
Finishing off Pulp week here at Monster Brains, here is a gigantic gallery of sci fi and fantasy pulp covers spanning many decades and dozens of publications. The number of covers they have collected here is really impressive, there must be at least a couple thousand pics to browse through. They have sections for pulp magazines, paperbacks, interior illustrations, and many French language magazine covers.
The section where I found some of the most interesting and strange art was under the cover section for the magazine "Fiction". Check it out.
Check out some of these really weird covers. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!

Friday, July 28, 2006

More Sci Fi and Horror Comic Covers
This first link has a collection of "classic crime and horror covers", with an array of horrific scenes of monsters, aliens, zombie freaks and other weirdos.

This gallery hosts the covers of Weird Fantasy, Weird Science Fantasy and Weird Science by E.C Comics.

The Timely Atlas Cover Gallery has a selection of 361 horror covers with titles such as Amazing Mysteries, Spellbound, Journey Into Unknown Worlds and many others.

Disobey.com has a gallery dedicated to many horror covers. They've got a section for E.C horror covers as well as various other horror comic covers.

The "Groovy Age Of Horror" blog has many great articles on pulp horror of the past decades. This post concerning a severed hand is both disturbing and hillarious.

And I can't make a post like this without mentioning Hyper Dave and his datajunkie blog. I'm sure many of you are already aware of this place but for those who aren't, start here and work your way up. There is a vast collection of sci fi and horror comics with large scans of covers as well as entire issues to be downloaded here, not to mention old radio programs and many other interesting things fitting into this genre.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Monster Magazine Covers
Here is an incredible collection of pulp magazine covers of the horror variety. From Creepy, Eerie, Tales From The Tomb, Nightmare, and many other titles, there is a great selection of horrific and fantastic covers to check out here.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Fletcher Hanks
Fletcher Hanks comics are filled with rigidly drawn characters battling bizarre forces with powers that are both Godlike and surreal. The use of primary colors in most of Fletcher's comics only adds to the strange dreamlike atmosphere of the stories.
Scroll to the bottom of the link posted above to see 3 Fletcher comics. Below you'll find links to various Fletcher Hanks comics. Unfortunately there's pop ups in a few of them, so beware.
Stardust The Super Wizard from Fantastic Comics #1
Stardust Vs The Emerald Men
Stardust in Fantastic Comics #6
1 2 3 4 5 6
Stardust The Super Wizard from Fantastic Comics #13
Stardust in Fantastic Comics #14
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Stardust in Fantastic Comics #16
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Fantomah
Another Fantomah Comic
More Fantomah

Thanks to Rob Lashaw for many of the links.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Virgil Finlay
Another great artist associated with pulp comics, Finlay's intricate linework is comparable to the likes of Gustave Dore or Albrecht Durer. 

See Datajunkie's posts showcasing scans of Finlay's art by click the following numbers... 1 2 3

Click here to see an illustration Finlay did of a Lovecraft story, part of which can be seen above.

Monday, July 24, 2006

War Of The Worlds
Carrying on with the pulp art, here's a great collection of artwork related to the H.G Wells story "War Of The Worlds".