Shelling Out!

Beasts in Show

Crab Grab!

Ouch!

Couple O'Doodles

Watching all the DINO REVO stuff got me in the mood to sketch out some dino stuff. As you see!

Jaw-rassic!

Sketch from a story.

I GOT A MILLION OF 'EM. No, really. A million...

Ideas that went nowhere that is! Oh well.

ROMANIA and CHUCKY and ME

Here are Don Mancini and Corey Sienega, Writer-Director and Producer of SEED OF CHUCKY with my storyboards in our Romanian offices!

Terra Nova, Terra Schmova!

No,this image is not from the show! It's not from ANY show, don't worry.
I've seen clips from Terra Nova- and they're full of PEOPLE. Feh. People.
We don't need no stinking people. And DINO REVO has NO repeat shots either. I hate when a show has three minutes of animation and they show you every shot eighty times. We're not stupid, guys, we know when you just flop a shot on us!

EXCLUSIVE! First published storyboard art from Dino Rev show!!!

Much derision was heaped upon me for this fine story sketch. Whatta bunch of maroons, am I right? This pic is golden. Note the pithy succinct verve, the lack of distracting anal non-essential clutter. Not a wasted stroke of the pencil in this fine and potent mesozoic tableau... a moment in time crystallized in graphite in two seconds...
Aaahhhh.

Melvin Monster Rides Again

Drawn and Quarterly just put out their third collection of John Stanely's Melvin Monster collection. There were only nine issues of Melvin, the tenth being a reprint of the fist. But I loved John Stanley'w work and his Melvins were replete with the kind of stuff he did so well. Here's a Melvin story I did just for fun and to see if I could do it. And of course as a tribute to Melvin and Mister Stanley.

Mister Wilson!

Check this out! Gahan drew this for me at a Fangoria Convention in Albany, NY (we were guests!) mannnnny years agone.

Why Comics Are Better Now

Why comics are so much better now. Or were anyway... from the legendary COMIC BOOK NERD (from www.twomorrows.com if you wanna get one)... This was in disgusted reaction to the mania for Image comics and their ilk. Ugh. Actually this version differs in some respects from the one we used in the mag. So there's something new to see even if you have the mag. Whoop-de-doo!

NEXT!

Tabanga... Slight Return

The new idea is to mock up some poster type images for movies that might be re-made... only maybe better? So as not to pick on GOOD movies but rather ones that have room for improvement, you dig? So says Monsterologist Pete

Those Wacky 60's!

It was the swingin' sixties! Monsters were big and hot rods were big- so somebody at Aurora plastics said "Hey! Let's put monsters in hot rods!" And so a series of strange hybrid monster/hot rod kits issued forth. Some people liked them- to be honest I thought they were stupid. BUT now in my ollllllld age I started thinking things like - "Hey! Monsters were big- and DINOSAURS were big- so why not Prehistoric MONSTERS!" Hence the attached. More "if I ran the show back in the day" nonsense, I know. But by god it came natural! And I would STILL dig kits like these.

When Creatures Fly

Creature designs and variations thereon. Plus my favorite one put into context, flying over a misty pond.

New Book Cover Illo for for HPL's Literary Executor

Just did a cover for a book on RH BARLOW, Lovecraft's literary executor, who was also a writer of fiction and poetry and a studfent of Mexican anthropology etc. This is for Hippocampus Press, a very interesting outfit. They are presenting all of Lovecraft's letters to Robert E. Howard (with Howard's replies!) and similar books collecting all the extant correspondence between HPL and August Derleth, James F Moreton and many others. Along with tons of other weird fiction, critical analyses thereof and various eclectic goodies. Here is some info on them: "Founded in 1999, Hippocampus Press specializes in classic horror and science fiction with an emphasis on the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other pulp writers of the 1920s and 1930s. Working closely with the leading scholars in the field we offer unique, high-quality, affordable editions of these important works.
Hippocampus Press founder Derrick Hussey says, "I met S. T. Joshi in the mid-1990s and began to work for him as a volunteer typist on various projects. I soon joined the Esoteric Order of Dagon, an amateur press association devoted to H. P. Lovecraft. Joshi later remarked to me that if I cared to start a small press, he would give me permission to publish his annotated version of the Lovecraft essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'. I fairly leapt at the chance and began the process of forming Hippocampus Press."
The first image is my fictional mockup of the Barlow book in the form of an old Arkham House edition and the second is just the art. For the real book. I hope to have more things done for them in the near future, including possibly an illustrated edition of THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH which some have called Lovecraft's Lord of the Rings. Well actually I called it that, but so what? Sounds good.

FROM HELL IT CAME - THE REMAKE! aka The Tabanga Rises!

Naaaaaaaaaaah, no way. But it could be! Tree monster time.

UNHOLYWOOD

Donated this image and the title to the delightful Maria Alexandra, who would be the Mistress of the Dark I'm sure if the title weren't taken! Read about her female monster buster, Samantha Blazes in UNHOLYWOOD, avaialable like everything else on the planet at amazon.com!