Cthulhu Thing sketch done at this year’s recent Emerald City Comic Con by Warren Ellis’s faux-hawked golem, Ben Templesmith.

Cthulhu Thing [Artist's Site] : Under Vhoorl’s Shadow

“They’re Little Girls And Boys!” by Sidney Sime for the poem “Zagabog” from the book Fancy Free by Eden Phillpotts. Sime was most famous for the illustrations he did for the Irish fantasy writer Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, or Lord Dunsany. H.P. Lovecraft was a great fan of both Dunsany and Sime, whose influences show themselves often in his work.

Sidney Sime – Zagabog Illustration, 1901 [MONSTER BRAINS] :
The Sidney Sime Page : Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Sotheby’s has another auction coming up for completely amazing things that I will never be able to afford. This month, on the 17th, 42 original drawings by Ernest Howard Shepard for the four Winnie the Pooh books are on the block including this, perhaps the most iconic Pooh image. The catalogue note reads:

This original illustration is reproduced on page 159 of Winnie-the-Pooh and comprises a full-page illustration in the published volume. It represents one of the iconic images of Winnie-the-Pooh and comes from the final chapter in which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh party, and we say good-bye.

“He nodded and went out …and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh – bump, bump, bump – going up the stairs behind him.”

Estimated value is between 40,000 and 60,000 GBP. I suppose I’ll just have to settle for the catalogue for $48.00.

‘That sort of Bear’: E.H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh From the Collections of Stanley J Seeger and Christopher Cone [Sotheby's] : Bibliodyssey

Erica il Cane’s figures — strange fusions of human and animal — form surreal, haunting vignettes. Each character impresses me with their ability to portray emotion while retaining each animal’s distinctive qualities and convey a history, some series of events that led up to the moment illustrated. In the above I can’t help but wonder, is this fox preparing to spring an elaborate trap or is it perhaps a truly, legitimate practice, a version of healthcare singular to this other world?

Ericailcane [Artist's Site]

Synesthesia by Christopher Reiger.

Christopher Reiger [Artist's Site] : Phantasmaphile

Friends, Countrymen;

In a few days I will be retracing the path of thousands of ancient conastogas, puttering up Shasta and down Grant’s, charring and grimacing under the Oregon blaze, just to get to my homeland of Seattle, Washington.

It’s very rare that I show my art publicly. After last time, when an angry mob showed up early with torches and pitchforks and ate all the cubical cheese, I had really lost hope in the Seattle art scene. I tried showing down here in the Bay Area, where I now reside, but had to take down early due to hippies protesting a yeti that had climbed one of the campus trees.

It is for this reason that I would be terribly obliged if only you’d find some way to drop in at either one of the art shows I’m launching this weekend.

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Stefan Glerum addresses the act, nay the obsession, of scouring garage sales and record shops for rare discs of vinyl in his wonderfully Gorey-esque series Crate Digging, Don’t Do It!

Crate Digging, Don’t Do It! [Artist's Site] : Drawn!