Dinos and Jake Chapman





















Two brothers who work together to create bizarre miniature landscapes of hell filled with nazi soldiers and mutated bodies. They've made sculptures for galleries that look like they'd fit in better at a nightmare ride at an amusement park. They've also made some great etchings inspired by Goya's "Disasters of War" series of prints. Unfortunately there is no real website for this duo of artists but I've scraped together what I could find off the net. etchings they've made.

Click here to see photos from their now destroyed Hell diorama.
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I can't direct link to their art on this site but look them up in the artists list to see a large selection of their prints and drawings at Paragon Press.

Yokai Monsters
Yokai are strange fantastical creatures/spirits based in Japanese folklore. There is a wide assortment of them, some good, some bad. They generally have a direct resemblance to certain animals. Many artists have depicted Yokai over the past several hundred years. Hayao Miyazaki's recent film "Spirited Away" included a lot of Yokai mythos. Linked here are many galleries showing Yokai in sculpted, painted and drawn variations. I suggest tracking down the 3 films based on Yokai from the late 60's titled "Spook Warfare, 100 Monsters and Along With Ghosts." And 2006 is a good year to be a Yokai fan as Takashi Miike's latest film titled "The Big Spook War" is due out, which is based directly on the Yokai mythology. You can find the trailer for it at this site.

Most of these galleries are in Japanese but the navigation is usually straight forward.

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12th Gallery - over 100 Yokai pics in this one, check it out.
13th Gallery - Gallery of creatures from a Yokai inspired videogame.

Hans Rickheit's "Chrome Fetus Comics"
Hans Rickheit's comics are filled with nightmarish imagery. Cats are fed into machines that grind them into dog food, midget delinquents shoot giant guns into crowds of people, tearing them apart, bear faced figures become afflicted with strange mutations. A perpetual list of oddities occur throughout Rickheit's fantasy world. I highly recommend purchasing any of Rickheit's comics from his website as you won't find anything like them in your average comic shop.

Odilon Redon
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Attached to the Symbolist art movement, Redon's imagery was usually based in the unreal. Cyclops, eyeball baloons, human faced spiders and other unusual subject matter litters his fantastic imagery.