Morning

My favorite recent purchase has been this amazing book of stereoscopic Diableries.  A huge, mind-blowing and beautifully designed collection that comes with its own stereoscopic glasses. In a early Happy Undertaker he views stereoscopic images and I've wanted to make a set of my own for awhile. Also a old favorite book.

Haunted

House, garage sale purchase this weekend and MC 5. All the MC 5 records are perfect to me, the favorite one just rotates.

The Shadow

and Frank Robbins. Frank Robbins was one of those artists that as a kid I wasn't crazy about his work but over time I've grown to love it and he's one of my favorites of the Caniff school of cartoonists. My friend Steve Banes reminded me of these and I really love them. I love the deep shadows and exaggerated poses  in places, his women and he does great cloak folds:-) There's just some images inside of the Shadow that I think are amazing.  I prefer these to the Mike Kaluta issues these days and its a Joe Kubert that did the cover for the last one, the other 3 are by Robbins.
The good news is you can read a whole story yourself at The Horrors of it All.

Morning

Finally got the amazing compete collection of Gahan Wilson's Playboy cartoons. Beautiful 3 volume production and filled with brilliant artwork and cartoons. There's a documentary on Gahan thats been completed that I can't wait to see at some point when its out on dvd.  Also Fantagraphics has collected Gahan's shortlived newspaper strip. Something I knew nothing about and haven't read and its of course got  great stuff in it. Its been a bit of a Gahan Wilson party around here:-) Also morning tunes, Poison Ivy is always a good way to start a day. I was happy the Urinals vinyl output was re-issued in a nice gatefold two record set, one studio one live. Urinals deserve a deluxe treatment:-)

HP LOVECRAFT

He deserves all caps in a title..
Happy Birthday buddy..From what I've read you prefer a barbershop quartet but hey..

Jack Davis

 My copy of the record sadly does not contain the cards but Davis did some of the best Monster cards ever.

I pulled these off of Tumblr...

Spicy Pineapple

and trout with oyster mushrooms is what I'm making and listening to Takeshi Terauchi. I'm a huge fan of Terauchi, a legendary Japanese guitarist and renaissance man (karate and Zen master, producer and he built Japans' first pa amongst other things) and have downloaded everything I could over the years so I was happy to buy this vinyl collection tho I would welcome all his works coming out. Also looking forward to watching POOR PRETTY EDDIE. I've never seen it but with Shelly Winters, Slim Pickens, Ted (Lurch) Cassidy and other how can you go wrong.

O'Brien and Coye

Fitz James O'Brien wrote some brilliant stories such as From Hand To Mouth ("the single most striking example of surrealistic fiction to pre-date Alice in Wonderland" )in his short life before he was wounded and died in the Civil War. I love this early edition. Inside are delicate illustrations by Ferdinand Horvath, not on the level of his Poe work but nice.  And a amazing cover by the always great Lee Brown Coye for a superb collection of spook tales.

Louisa May Alcott

Quick sketch while watching a fantastic documentary on the writer and her many struggles. Alcott wrote many pulp thrillers under an alias which I'm  looking forward to reading one day. Its interesting  how they were only discovered years later and many more remain lost.

The Hex Dispensers

A band I totally love and Alex Cuervo is a Happy Undertaker fan.  This band (as well as others he's in), his solo work and his soundtrack music are all fantastic. One of the great things about The Happy Undertaker has been connecting with people whose work and point of view I appreciate.

MAD

Artists edition arrived and its incredible .

Breakfast with Elder, Wood and Kurtzman.

Wally Wood

I suppose if there was a publisher I would send a Valentine too it would be IDW for these jawdropping artists editions they've put out of a couple of favorite artists, Dave Stevens and Wally Wood.  This is the kind of thing I never would have  expected to be able to own, beautifully photographed pages of the original art at the actual, large size of the originals. I was looking at this one this morning and am waiting for the Mad artists edition to arrive in the mail sometime soon. When the Stevens was fist announced a Mad edition was one of the first that popped into my mind that I hoped to see in the future and now its on its way. The thought of seeing the WIll Elder and Wood art in the Mad books gives me goosebumps.

Queen of Blood

I wish someone would do a full bio of director Curtis Harrington. I love his films and he seems like a really interesting guy beginning in experimental cinema. I like arty horror movies a lot more then someone running around with a shaky camera...  I could do lots of  drawings of the Queen of Blood.

and my hideous friend Karswell's half sheet..

Wally Wood

Gibson

Looking at some Charles Dana Gibson this morning. He's like the John Singer Sargent of pen and ink.

A Quiet Place in the Country

Its been a good weekend of catching with some movies I've been wanting to see. 

Lewitt - Him

Another Lewitt and Him book. This is one of my favorites and its pretty rare. Beautiful design and illustrations.

Alex Toth

I can never get tired of looking at Alex Toth drawings..

Charles Addams

Happy Birthday.

Lewitt-Him