With each character I create for the World Wildlife Federation of Justice, I like to create a logo to go with him/her. Here’s the first draft for Awesome Possum. I wanted to make it a bit reminiscent of Superman* and it kind of has that 1980’s Kenner Super Powers look, which is a happy accident.
* I find it interesting that Superman’s “S” on his chest has serifs, but the logo on his comic book does not.
I contributed a drawing of Mictlantecutli to the new issue of Fungi Weird Fiction magazine. Writing by Lovecraft, Ligotti, Price, Long and many more. Check it out on Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, and Borders. Read on for more info:
Fungi, the Magazine of Fantasy and Weird Fiction is celebrating 25 years of intermittent publication with a spectacular issue #20 that is chock full of the wide ranging kinds of fiction and non-fiction its die hard fans have come to expect!
Weird, horror, fantasy, science fiction; Fungi has it all in stories told both by past masters of fantasy fiction, favorites of the fanzine world, mainstream authors, and talented amateurs!
Topping the list of professionals will be the great Ray Bradbury himself with a lengthy panegyric that has not seen print for 45 years! Accompanying this great find will be an article by James Persons, Jr. on “Ray Bradbury at 90” (appearing exclusively in Fungi. direct from the pages of National Review Magazine).
Other professional offerings will include stories by Richard Lupoff and E.P. Berglund led off by horror master Ramsey Campbell!
Next, revisit Lemuria and follow Thongor or Valkarth as he penetrates the Kovian jungle to find the “Witch-Queen of Lemuria,” a new tale of Lin Carter’s Thongor the Barbarian, the first since those halcyon days in the 1960s when the star of Robert E. Howard’s Conan was in the ascendant! This new tale comes direct from the pen of Robert M. Price, literary executor of the Carter estate and uncrowned king of the fanzine world.
A regular feature of Fungi over the years has been its spotlight section and this issue will be no exception to that rule with a clutch of brand new stories of the weird, the bizarre, and the strangely coincidental by David Daniel, Kerouac scholar and author of a half dozen critically approved novels of hard boiled mystery!
A favorite of many past issues of Fungi will be returning as well with SF/fantasist Colleen Drippe represented by a pair of strange stories; Clark Ashton Smith scholar Ron Hilger has turned in a new tale of Zothique; and editor Pierre V. Comtois adds to his canon of horror tales with “Forced Conclusion.”
In addition, Fungi #20 continues its tradition of introducing talented newcomers to the ranks of weird fiction including Adam Walter and Dale Phillips among others.
And of course, what would Fungi be without art? Be on the lookout for eye catching pieces by C. G. Porter, Toren Atkinson, Steve Lines, and Marie Melechinsky all of whom will do their best to maintain Fungi’s reputation as an artzine.
And speaking of art, just as Fungi #19 featured the work of classic fantasy artist Gervasio Gallardo on its cover, so too does Fungi #20 with a cover adorned by the work of fantasy grandmaster Bob Logrippo!
Available now, Fungi #20 can be had practically everywhere on the net
including Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, and Borders.
Or just follow the handy links provided below.
List of contributors (so far!)
Fiction and non-fiction by:
Ramsey Campbell; Robert Price; Ray Bradbury; James Persons, Jr.; Clark Ashton Smith; Dale Nelson; Richard Lupoff; E.P.Berglund; Thomas Ligotti; Glynn Barass; David Daniel; Ed Ford; Henry J. Vester III; Colleen Drippe; Ron Hilger; C. G. Porter; Adam Walter; Dale Phillips; Don Webb; H.P. Lovecraft ; R.J. Zimmerman; Joshua Shapiro; R.H. Benson; Andrew Seddon;Gregorio Montejo; Frank Belknap Long; Leah Cyr; Pierre V. Comtois;
Art by:
Bob Logrippo; Toren Atkinson; Steve Lines ; Marie Melechinsky; Theodore Kittelson
A couple years ago I did this Hound of Tindalos painting for Fantasy Flight Games’ “Call of Cthulhu” card game.
The design was subsequently used for the Hound of Tindalos miniature figurine for their new board game, Mansions of Madness. Here’s a professionally painted version courtesy of Jeremy Salinas
Remember issue #44 of Barnyard’s Finest, where Awesome Possum has to rescue Octopussycat from Hypnopotamus? I found the original art. I’ll be framing it and putting it in the Vancouver Comic Jam Art Show at the Wallflower Modern Diner in April. Click “attending” on the Facebook event, if you dare!
Here’s a tiny preview of an eleven page comic I’m illustrating for the Panels for Primates anthology. This story is written by Mark “Northguard” Shainblum and will be lauded by anyone who like Curious George and/or Superfriends parodies. I’m pretty jazzed about being associated with Rick “Classics Illustrated” Geary. Additionally, proceeds from the book will go towards Primate Rescue Center.
UVic student and former Camosun student Troy Wilson is fighting to raise money for a primate sanctuary and he’s going about it with an unusual approach. Wilson is the editor of Panels for Primates, an online anthology of comic strips about primates. The project started in October and one new comic strip will be installed every Wednesday until sometime in April. At the end of each installment is a page encouraging people to donate to the Primate Rescue Center.
Wilson admits the fundraising initiative is “an odd endeavour” and questions whether many people will donate money online for something they can view for free. But he says he hopes comic lovers will come around, as his own appreciation for comics inspired him to take on the project from the start.
There’s a PayPal icon right on the Primate Rescue Center homepage now (primaterescue.org), and you don’t need PayPal accounts to use it; you can click on that icon and use credit cards as well. And here’s an important detail: when people donate, they need to specify that it is a Panels for Primates donation. Otherwise, their donation won’t count towards our total. There is a box/field at the end of the PayPal process in which they can specify this.
Panels for Primates is @panels4primates on twitter
Here’s another article about the project.
This past Sunday at The Wallflower Diner, conveniently located just below my studio, local sexy burlesque weirdo Bloody Betty posed for Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class – the “Cthulhupalooza” special.
For the first half, she wore her tentacle dress, and for the second half, she wore a chainmail bikini. I mostly avoided drawing the accoutrements as I was really there to draw the female form, but the tentacles had to be set down on paper.
Extra bonus, Matt from the Wallflower blasted all four albums by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets as mood music.
Two of my “classic” (read: more than a decade old) Cthulhu-themed drawings are featured on Craig Mullin’s unfilmable.com. Unfilmable is a great resource on Lovecraft film adaptations and Craig has resurrected his “Pickman’s Models” section of the site featuring Lovecraftian artwork. Check out my pics plus art from Tom Sullivan, Andrew Ozkenel, and more.
I’ll have a dealer table at Vancouver Comicon on Sunday Jan 16 @ the Heritage Hall 3102 Main St. I’ll be there from opening until about 4pm, selling my art, my books, my band merch, and promoting Cthulhupalooza 2! Come on by and say hello and pick up a copy of the new Strange Aeons magazine featuring Spaceship Zero the comic prequel!
Wow, I’m honored and excited. Because of my contributions to New Reliable Press’ comics anthology Acts of Violence, I am eligible for a Shuster Award this year. In case you don’t know what that means, Joe Shuster was one of the creators of Superman (and Canadian), and the awards recognize the work of Canadian comic book creators. The 7th Annual Ceremony is in Calgary this June.
Hey Call of Cthulhu roleplayers! The new issue of The Unspeakable Oath is available in pdf format right now on rpgnow.com for $6.99 and it’s filled with illustrations by, among other people, Mr. Toren Atkinson. Check out some previews on unspeakableoath.com
I expect that the printed versions will be available presently at gaming stores near you and unspeakableoath.com.
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