…out of Hell and into your nightmares. They are not human. They are made of living stone.
Tag: Art and artists
They Called Us Enemy [Review]
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott Artwork by Harmony Becker Top Shelf Productions, 2019 George Takei is a man of many talents: activist, actor, meme creator, and now, at age 82, graphic novel writer. Who would have known in 1968 that Mr. Sulu would have had such legs? Mr. …
Stone and Sea
What happens to the people who Medusa turned to stone? Do they remain conscious over millennia, as continents sink and ocean levels rise?
Two Books about Skeletons [Review]
Unnatural Selection by Katrina van Grouw Princeton University Press, 2018 How does evolution happen? This is the behind Unnatural Selection, written by natural history curator and illustrator Katrina van Grouw. She approaches it from a direction unfashionable these days, though one that Charles Darwin received inspiration from: the selective breeding of domesticated animals. Unnatural Selection …
M Train [Review]
M Train by Patti Smith Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 I read this book as a challenge for Seattle Public Library. Every summer they have a book bingo game, and if you fill in a row of five (the center square is free) you are entered in a contest. Each square is for a book of …
Flaming Heart
My heart burns for you.
Leatherheart
Toxic, perhaps, and firing on all cylinders.
Naughty Arabian Nights
Some kinky, Aubrey Beardsley-like shenanigans are going on in this Arabian Nights illustration by early twentieth century book illustrator Kay Nielson. Not for kids.
Black Queen VIII
Oliver Ledriot’s sneering Black Queen is all a Faerie villainess should be.
Heavy on the Symbolism
Dare to touch her, and Death smiles. (Illustration by SF artist Virgil Finlay)