I can't believe how amazing the character design is for Hellboy II. I am not really a comic-book movie nerd. I really liked Hellboy, and I think Guillermo del Toro is the real deal (as is Mike Mignola!).

But this new movie has the best alien creatures I have seen since 1977, and I am as excited about seeing these weird things come to life as I was when I was 7 years old waiting to see Star Wars. Look at these guys!




Plus, check out the intersection of Gary Panter and Marvel Comics. I like to think of myself as more of a RAW guy than a superhero guy, but this meeting of the minds has Jack Kirby written all over it.

Thanks to Drawn! for writing this up.

Another great children's book for anyone whose kids love Halloween (in April): The Witch Casts a Spell. Fantastic spooky yet enchanting collage illustrations of Halloweenland by Barbara Olsen.

Well here is a double-whammy of goodness. I had posted earlier this video by Paul Walker, which is fantastic all by itself. Taking another look, I have deduced that Mr Walker is part of Margin Walker, which has several charming and clever animation videos available at their website.

One of them features Colargol by Tadeusz Wilkosz. Please go find out about him. Great Polish stop motion animations for you!!



Looks like Drawn! found him last year. I missed it. Maybe you did too?

If you were wondering where the Singeon site went, it went here. Apparently Singeon's mom found out about the other website, and threw it away.

No, I'm kidding. I don't know what happened to it.

Here is his myspace page, which is also lovely.

Hi!



Here are the dogs that inflate when the subway passes below.



Here are the Al Jaffe fold-ins from the New York Times today, in case you missed it.

Hmm... it's medieval, it's microscopic, and it's mythological. In short, it has everything I look for. The perfect blog item!

It is from the Kyushu Museum, via Pink Tentacle, via Monsterama. What a family tree!





I was going to post an image from Juan Ortiz's wonderful website, but he put a terrifying legal paragraph in there to prohibit using his images at all.




















By Heidi Kenney. Nice!

I remember the first few times I saw anything in YouTube-quality pixellated gristlevision, thinking that nobody would want to watch anything this grainy and murky - like an old Edison wax cylinder... yet here we are!

Lo, some things do look better when you can't make out the details - behold
"His Wife Is A Chicken."



Thanks WFMU!

Where do you go to find all those 18th-century Japanese monsters you keep hearing about? Easy! Go here. But bring a friend because it is very scary!

Thanks to Neatorama for finding this crazy junk.


My favorite Bugs cartoon. At least, it's the one that made the biggest impression on me as a 6-year-old. I am not a Bugsologist. Just like this has always been the only Star Trek episode I like, because it scared the Gleem out of me when I was small.


Yours for $525.00!


Just get the DVD. Seriously.