Zuni Fetish Doll (Trilogy of Terror)

Crocroach

WTF? LSD!

Book of the Dead (Fab Press)

The history of the zombie flick is the focus of this colorfully-illustrated 2nd Edition film book from Fab Press, featuring over 300 pages of zombie-themed coolness.

It may seem that a volume examining the history ofthe zombie movie would be rather frivolous and unscholarly, but author Jamie Russell seems to have taken on the endeavor with sober determination, setting the scene with Haiti and the geopolitical and literary roots of the early zombie movies, weaving the reader through the various stages of the zombie genre in cinema to the present, and culminating with a welcome zombie filmography at the end. The political tone is a bit terse in spots regarding American colonialism and the zombie in the modern culture, but Russels strives admirably to maintain a plausible, if debatable, social context for the popular zombie films of the last 7 1/2 decades.

Remembering Vampira

Mail Nurmi died one year ago today.

MEET HIS GHOST!

Blood Island Confidential, continued...

Blood Island Confidential first panels

Yippee! 2009 will mark the beginning of the first Castle Monster Comic, "Blood Island Confidential" I know nothing about web-comic production, so every moment should prove to be a learning experience, although I have laid plenty of groundwork for it in the last year or so. I know this first couple panels don't give you much to go on but I'm aiming for satirical and hopefully, to the extent that a silly cheap-jack web-comic can be, creepy.

Archon

Uncle Forry R.I.P.

Famous Monsters of Filmland founder Forrest J. Ackerman died yesterday at the age of 92. I'll always remember the hours of joy the magazine brought me as a kid. May his memory live on.
AICN Obituary
Portraits by Mark Berry

Untitled

Some other dimensional something-or-other, just to break things up a little. I was going to make a finished color piece, but I'm thinking this sketch might be good enough. You get the idea.

Barbra in the Headlights

This is Barbara from Night of the Living Dead, and if you didn't recognize it shame on you! I'm pleased with how it turned out and I'll probably be doing more art like this in the future. I think I'll forget calling it "pause art" every time-I think you get the idea. I figured I might as well go to colored paper and colored pencils (well, black white and gray pencils, in this case). It will take longer I reckon, but it's worth it.

Pause Art #2

Here's an interesting shot (another drawing from a screen pause) of actress Andree Melly in the Hammer classic Brides of Dracula, one of the most iconic screen vamps in the history of vampire movies. I always thought she had a sort of Elsa Lanchester look about her: a little homely but with strangely alluring qualities at the same time.