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.