Lovecraft Sketches
Shaenon: More art for a project that may or may not ever happen. This was a planned collaboration with my friend Jason Thompson, master of H.P. Lovecraft comics. Mostly I think he wanted to make me draw Edwardian stuff.
Channing: Ooh! Ooh! Do August Derleth! We Wisconsinites have few enough favorite sons who aren’t radical communist witch-hunters or serial killers, might as well give Augie some love.
Love the concept. And I agree with Channing that it would be cool to see this done with other masters of weird fiction like Derleth and Blackwood.
Hey, Jeff, show a little Wisconsin pride for Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch Meyerson), who went from schoolteacher and socialist labor organizer in Milwaukee to Prime Minister of Israel.
tune: “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),” Harry Dacre, 1892
Golda, Golda, your rhetoric enthralls
When you scolda down at the union halls
Your embrace of socialism
And Labor Zionism
Will serve you well
One day propel
You to pow’r within Knesset’s walls
Also awesome actor Tony Shalhoub.
What about Ellen Raskin, graphic designer and author of The Westing Game? (Though my favorite of her books is The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues.)
I agree that you should add August Derleth and Robert E. Howard! And Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton-Smith!
Lil’ Cthulhu and Friends: Gotta Possess ’em all… before THEY possess YOU!
It’s a tribute to my misspent youth that I know who all these people are.
These semi-chibis are extremely adorable. I kind of want to know what the plot would have been or will be, so here’s hoping this project gets off the ground soon.
Whither “Fighting Bob” La Follette?
Don’t worry, Jeff, you’ve got Gary Gygax, Orson Welles, Donald Knuth, and Les Paul. Les Paul – inventor of the electric guitar! Hard to get more metal than that.
Nobody immediately comes to mind from New Jersey; but now that I’m in Maryland I can fall back on Edgar Allen Poe.
Wisconsin—You’ve got the Ringling Brothers, what more do you want?? And the House on the Rock! Worth a trip just to see the Circus Museum, but by the way, everything they say about the cheese is true. And curds squeak when you bite them! Travel is so educational.
This better happen, that’s all I have to say.
On the subject of actors, let’s not forget that one Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a UWS alum.
All darling, of course, but I can’t love a spider with only two eyes. Especially when Barlow has four himself.
This is the weirdest episode of Pokemon I’ve ever seen.
To make ol’ Howard relatable, you’d have to do…well, a major overhaul on the historical personage.
Not a nice person, HP.
Yeah, he was very much a product of his time… Unfortunately.