Tag: fun

Sweet Meats: Art by Helga Petrau-Heinzel

Stefanie Snider

Guess what this is:

Welp, it’s not meat.
It’s marzipan, that crushingly sweet almond-and-sugar treat.

“Satisfied with her first marzipan artwork, Helga started making even more repulsive sculptures, like animal organs and rotting pig heads. She admits her creations look so real she herself is sometimes disgusted by them.”

Check out her other morbid meats at www.petrau-heinzel.com.
(Heads up: artistic female nudity at the site)

(via Oddity Central)

Late-Night Horror Hosts

Stefanie Snider

Elvira. Vampira. Zacherley.

Horror hosts introduced cheesy horror movies on tv. They’d have their own schtick, their own characters. They’d pop up at commercial breaks, to lighten the mood and provide a little comic relief.

Growing up in Canada, we didn’t have late-night movie hosts. Not in my area, anyway. But even then, somehow these characters worked their way into my life. I knew them even if I’d never seen them “live”. One night, a few years ago, I finally managed to catch one of these campy, low-budget cable access horror shows. I stayed up until something like five a.m., just to see every last bit.

Then tonight, I found American Scary, and now I get to participate in a horror institution, even if it’s only vicariously.

Watch along with me:

Love Comics? Love Horror? Brace Yourself…

Stefanie Snider

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.

Three Words: Wasp. Horror. Eyeball.

Stefanie Snider

What the fuck. This is pretty fantastic, in a creepy mind-bendy kind of way.

Congratulations Disappointing Monsters!

Stefanie Snider

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.)