Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com
Category: Comics
Dark Craft: Lovecraft Edition
“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
And of course, a special mention: Disappointing Monsters, a webcomic with a recurring Cthulhu who’s “a bit of a dick”.
(crafts via Geek Crafts, Grim Reviews, and Geek Art Gallery)
Comic: So You Want to Be a Writer?
comic by Grant Snider (no relation)
(via WilliamLanday.com)
Creepshow: a Comic/Horror Classic
I found a copy of Creepshow on the weekend, sitting sad and lonely on the five-dollar shelf (at the store where I buy my yarn, go figure). It’s been a while since I’ve watched this one, so I brought it home.
Sunday looked like this:
Since it had been so long, though, there’s one scene that apparently I forgot having seen. Or blocked out. Either way, when it came on, it made me feel five years old again. There’s something about cockroaches…their nasty little legs…their hard, glossy shells…the way they tunnel through your flesh…
Check out the scene in question here, then go compulsively clean your house. I suggest the bathroom, first.
Love Comics? Love Horror? Brace Yourself…
Did you have plans for this long weekend?
Yeah, those might be about to change.
Enter The Horrors of it All. This is easily one of my favourite blogs, and has been for years. It’s probably the best source of Pre-Code horror comic scans.
What does Pre-Code mean?
“Horror comics of the 1940s and early 1950s are often called ‘pre-Code’ horror in reference to the Comics Code Authority, a censoring board that was created in response to Dr. Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent and the subsequent public outcry against crime and horror comics. Since violent, gory and lurid content were what made pre-Code horror comics great, the stifling effect of censorship resulted in bland comics that didn’t sell. The horror comic market was dead, killed by the Code.” (from samuelsdesign.com)
Pre-Code is the good stuff. Monsters, murderers and the macabre await you in these pages. And The Horrors of it All actually provides full-page, full-story panels in all their delicious retro glory.
If you’re anything like me, you hated the chipper wholesomeness of Archie and gang, and thrived on comic blood and guts instead. This impeccably-maintained blog is worth a visit.
Congratulations Disappointing Monsters!
Disappointing Monsters won Best Web Comic in the 2011 Ghastly Awards! Congratulations Owen and Daniel!
(PS if you haven’t read it yet, you should. Go on. Click the pic. Doooo it.)
Disappointing Monsters
You like horror.
You like comics.
You’ll like Disappointing Monsters. Why? Because it’s fucking awesome.
Created by my buddy Owen Mackinder and my new pal Daniel Bradford, this comic has everything your dark little heart could want. Cthulhu. Pennywise the Dancing Clown. A snow fort with murder holes.
As my husband says, it’s a lot like Calvin and Hobbes…if Hobbes was a zombie.
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New comics on Mondays, click here to read from the start.
Get Married Before Starting a Blog
We’re the awesome centre, natch. Good thing, too, because he’s stuck with me now. Mwuahahahahhhh!
(via Dating Fails)
PS Happy Friday! New story this weekend, watch for it.
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