“Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters”
Pink Tentacle has a gallery of Gōjin Ishihara’s illustrations for The Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters (1972).
“Godzilla’s Conscience: The Monstrous Humanism of Ishiro Honda”
At Criterion, Steven Ryfle writes about director Ishiro Honda and Godzilla. “Ishiro Honda gathered his crew and gave them an ultimatum. He was about to put his career at risk, and he would only work with those who approached his current project—a movie about a radiation-spewing prehistoric reptile […]
Minya Comes Out as Trans!
Minya / Minilla comes out in a stopmotion short by Cressa Beer!
The Thoroughly Modern Mummy
Mummies have been popping up everywhere in my life lately. Not literally, like turning around to find them shambling down the street behind me or accidentally disturbing their peaceful slumber in a dark corner of the closet, but in many fictional formats. I’ve discovered mummies in board games […]
Monster March Madness!
The Ann Arbor District Library has set up a bracket of monster battles for Monster March Madness. Get one to fill out and learn more at AADL’s website. “To make our list of monsters, we randomly selected 64 monsters from the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition roster of […]
How do you Solve a Problem Like a Werewolf?
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should, and I feel like that goes double when you’re creating a monster. There are so many tools available now to film the transformation of a person into an unholy creature of the night, and yet some of […]
