Not an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Lurking Fear,” but a hybrid pastiche/homage to Lovecraft and Buster Keaton, with a hint of Indiana Jones in a few places

Part 1

Part 2

The Lurking Fear by Eric Koenig [Youtube]

Plenty Good Dancers, originally uploaded by discoverblackheritage.

This is a sentiment I think we can all get behind.

Monkey Dentist: 1924 [Shorpy]

Christopher Robin Milne and Winnipeg “Winnie” the Bear at London Zoo, c1926.

Winnipeg the Bear [Wikipedia]

Painter Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, his third wife Lucie Badoul, who he called “Youki”, and two moustaches.

Youki et Foujita [e-l-i-s-e] : Good Conduct Well-Chastised

I can’t help but think that, were these mechanical cops to have been produced, they would have immediately been drafted into service by private entities. Indeed, the inset in the upper left of this illustration brings to my mind, not of the police sedating a mob — something that, along with “war purposes”, it is well suited for, according to the numerous mentions of each in the write-up — but of the private security forces of the Ford Motor Co., tearing through the picket lines of striking employees. The idea of, say, John Pierpont Morgan, his rhinophyma riddled visage contorted in murderous glee, controlling an army of unstoppable automatons, chills me to the bone. At the very least it would keep the machines from helping those in who are truly in need of robotic justice, like the young lady being harassed by this floating Rape-Bot. Maybe it’s just me, but I wonder just who was looking forward to the future of 1924.

Robocop 1924 [davidzondy.com] : Thanks, Melissa!

Mago de Oz and Robot, 1920 by Julian Totino Tedesco

Robot 1920 by Sebastiàn Giacobino

A collection of work by seven artists who post illustrations based on a particular, pre-arranged theme.

1 x semana [Artist Collective] : Super Punch