Tintin and Lovecraft.
Tintin in R’lyeh. Really. And Innsmouth. And The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
The World’s First Fantasy Magazine
The always excellent illustration and book arts blog, A Journey Around My Skull, has scans of illustrations from Der Orchideengarten. Started in 1919, it’s the first fantasy magazine. (More about the magazine, here).
Yokai by Gojin Ishihara
The ever-wondrous Pink Tentacle is waving around creepy children’s book illustrations by Gojin Ishihara. They’re like the little lure on an angler fish and I’m totally going for it.
Illustrated Wonder
An illustrated gallery of 1950s rayguns and a lovely, sweet and kinda steam punk illustrated marriage proposal by Joel Kimmel. (thanks, Humash!)
RIP Frank Frazetta
Fantasy and comic artist Frank Frazetta has died. The world of fantasy art with ladies in metal bikinis and gentleman in fur speedos will be much the poorer. We say that with great affection. (via SFSignal)
There’s a cephalopod with a naginata.
The Japan City in New York City has posted a gallery of images from their current exhibition, “Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.” There’s a cephalopod with what looks like a naginata. There are samurai and a giant skeleton. If you can’t make it to the […]
The Cultural Gutter 