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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 2nd! I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Acne is the scourge of teenagers everywhere, but combine that with lycanthropy and you've got the crisis of a lifetime! The role of a lifetime that put Michael Landon on every family's television set...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 3rd, The Mummy
Ardeth Bey (aka Imhotep, aka the Mummy), is my favorite Boris Karloff character! More diabolical than Dracula (actually his character is based off of Dracula) and with more speaking parts than...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 4th, Preacher From The Black Lagoon
I decided to do an illustration that was a bit more humorous. But I am still a big Gillman fan! Ever since I was 6 years old, the Creature has always fascinated me. When I was 8 I was able to go to...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 5th, The Robot Monster
I know what your thinking, that's just a guy in a gorilla suit with a space helmet on. But you'd be wrong, this is The Robot Monster!Okay so maybe the studios cut some corners by recycling some...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 6th, Invasion of the Saucermen
This movie in my opinion, epitomizes the B.E.M. (Bug Eyed Monsters) style horror film. And they are one of my favorite alien designs and lot of fun to illustrate!
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 7th, Universal Monster Cards
I've had a hard time keeping up with the postings so today's post is a bit lazy. Here's some older illustrations I did of the classic Universal Monsters!
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 8th, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
A great German expressionist film! Doctor Caligari and his somnabulist minion, Cesare commit a series of murders in a German village. Everything was going right for the good doctor until Cesare falls...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 10th, Nosferatu (Eine Symphonie...
Probably the first horror movie I ever purchased as a kid. I remember reading various horror magazines and books from the library, pretty much every time we went to check out books. The first time...
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy October 26th, The Great Pumpkin
No Halloween would be complete without the Great Pumpkin!
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Countdown To Halloween 2011: Happy Halloween!!!
My October has been a bit hectic lately with starting a new job and what not, sorry for the infrequent posts.I wanted to be sure and wish everyone a safe and Happy Halloween!!! And who better to do...
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A Tell Tale Heart
This is an illustration that I did on the title page of A Tell Tale Heart. I've been doing these for a few years and I really like the way this one turned out. Poe is in my top 10 favorite authors so...
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More Edgar Allan Poe Book Pages
From the book title page, I just really wanted to do a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe. And the bottom image is from the title page of The Fall of the House of Usher.
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I watched an interesting documentary about Ivar the Boneless, Viking conqueror of England, which supposes that he suffered from brittle bones disease. After watching it I feel that it is more than...
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Anne McCaffrey, 1926-2011
As a 12 I remember buying a copy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight at a Walden Books. Now Walden's is gone and so is Anne. Thanks for all the memories....
View ArticleHappy Thor's day (Þórsdagr) Thor: Hammer Of The Gods
I just found this today, and I haven't done a Thor's Day post lately so, enjoy!
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Riddles In The Dark
Just another illustration on a book page. This one is on a page from The Hobbit from the Riddles In The Dark chapter. I think this is the first one that I've done on a mass market paperback so it's a...
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Brushing Elbows With Tolkien And C.S. Lewis...
... sort of. This weekend my family and I went to visit my parents, they live in the northern suburbs of Chicago. And as part of our weekend we went to Wheaton College to visit the Marion E. Wade...
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Farewell To Summer... Ray Bradbury
You were The Cat's Pajamas when you introduced me to that Dandelion Wine we had One More For The Road and Quicker Than The Eye we were Driving Blind with the Illustrated Man to the October Country....
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Genghis: Birth Of An Empire
I picked a copy of Conn Iggulden's Genghis: Birth Of An Empire on Saturday and I've just finished it and it was utterly fantastic! I haven't found a book to be more exhilarating since I read The...
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