Bait

Courtesy of At Her Discretion.

Boppity But Boop

New Blog Please bookmark and add links pleeeease.

Got me a new blog for monster art and info. I am going to teach a monster class at my school as an after school program nad Mr. Mostyn is what all the kids call me so the name stuck. Much thanks to Sean for inspiration. I am also drawing strips again (haven't done in a while). Here is a new one. I am also making a Monsterama zine as well.
http://mostynsmonsterama.wordpress.com

Mega Napkin

I put all of my napkin drawings together, into one big "-gliph." The majority of them were drawn at my work over a period of a year. I stopped doing them about two months ago. Some of the stuff I came up with on the napkins has been used on bigger inks. Mega Napkin is sort of a study, since I want to put them together like that, under one frame, and hang it on a wall.

Say A Prayer for S. Clay Wilson

S. Clay Wilson, pioneering grotesque underground comix artiste extraordinaire is in a coma with apparent brain
damage after being found unconscious lying in the street in the rain in San Francisco. His work is full of the dangerous element, pirates, demons & bikers.

S. Clay Wilson represents the good side of the 60s to me, which was not repressing your creative tendencies, upsetting the uptight squares & male chauvinism.

"Just because you depict evil, doesn't mean you are evil. People always get that confused. They expect me to be all the monsters I draw. I say, 'No, I'm a repressed Victorian. I shuffle around here and I drink my morning tea.' People show up in leathers and s**t, looking like my characters, I won't let them in my house."

"I get a lot of flak from feminists, but we all do, But within that group of feminists, there's all kinds of mentalities. Some don't understand what we're dong -- making fun of everything. Spain (Rodriguez) gets a lot of s**t about it, we all do. I like the idea of keeping the boat rocking."

Here's an interview with him.
http://sonic.net/~goblin/8wilson.html
& another one.
http://www.tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=917&Itemid=48

Anyhow, just keep him in your thoughts.

Raggedy Ann and Andy Meet The Greedy

I found this while browsing Ogrish of all places. Gotta love a monster made of junkfood! Watch a video clip of this scene here.

A Sequel I Did Not Know About

Courtesy the excellent DrillPop

Final Destinations and New Blog

Hi Duckers. Had a question just to satisfy my own curiosity. I was wondering what you all do with all of the things we see on this site. Where do you use it? What form does it take? Books,CD's, etc. I know that guys like Aaron have like 50 million things in the works but dont know what he does with them.

Second thing. I have a new blog which I hope will be tied into a new zine of monster realted goodness I am working on. I am also taking Sean's lead and teaching some of my kids at my middle school about monsters in an after school program. I will post my monster stuff there and any of the normal art on the Squat thrust site. Hope you will stop by as new work goes up.
http://mostynsmonsterama.wordpress.com/

strips

Boogers N' Blood

Here's an example of the kind of stuff that's on the back of my new Monsters, Weirdos & Creeps cards. (they're still being cut & packed into their packs so they'll be mailed out by friday!) 27 different cards with a different Monster, Weirdo or Creep on the front & then a comic, some weird art, a profile of a cool dude (Ed Roth for example) or a culturally important item (pinball, coney island, hot dogs) on the back. 7 cards to a pack. Secret additional cards will appear in any Goblinko releases for the rest of the year.

My little brother Daniel (aka Danny James) formerly of the Cuts, now doing solo music came up with the boogers & blood concept when he was working on his master's thesis in advanced brattyness at age 9, after noticing that big juicy boogers have blood on the end of them frequently.

KOOL KRAP 4 KIDS

Maybe the coolest pinball game of all time? Mystery Score.


I'm a little more obsessed with this than i should be.


The top corner of our kitchen showing half of our wood weirdos collection & some other junk. Photo by my wife.

Renate comic bibliothek exhibition in Neurotitan Gallery

Here's text and photos by my real good friend and amazing artist crippaXXXalmqvist....

Pics from the Renate comic bibliothek(=library) exhibition in Neurotitan Gallery in Haus Schwarzenberg on Rosenthalerstrasse 39, Berlin-Mitte. The exhib lasted between the 17th of October 'til the 8th of November. For more info 'bout this shop/gallery, surf here:
http://www.neurotitan.de
The large black/white pics on the red/silver star cloth is drawings from me, Zeke S. Clough and Marc van Elburgs "x-Grumzoole/now-Dominatrix"-project, that didn't fit in on the walls of our Le Petit Mignon-exhib in Staalplaat Store a week before. The 3 BIG comic-pages are the first ones we got finished off last year that has more of a "comic" feel to it, than our otherwise typical shitty trash "art".
The li'l black/white xeroxes etc. on the black deathskull cloth is a collection of stuff i've done the last couple of years. Some I've drawn alone, but there's also other collaborations with Zven "Smittekilde" Balslev and Lili Konishchev for Zeke's "Voida Voida"-book. Plus other comix I've done together with Oska "Wald" Hassler for his zine "Kriminella Gittarrer" and Andreas Michalkes "Mono Vision".
Those five different comic strips that all start with the same picture, is a li'l project i've started this last July with Jacques "La Commissure" Mouton. After some weeks I decided to send that first pic to some other people i know, just to see how it could turn into complete different directions. The 5 people are from top down:
Fyffe Liegnell (SWE)
Zeke S. Clough (UK)
Jacques Mouton (FRA)
Markus Lesmeister (GER)
Zven Balslev (DK)
Those 2 coloured drawings & 1 comic is done by me in 1979. I was then 11 years old(young).
And the 2 mutated dolls hangin' from the ceiling, is both "work in process". They probably never will really be finished off.
And then last, but NOT least...that framed painting of a tree is one of my first collaborations. I did the pencils, 'n then my mom coloured it with water colour. This was in 1983. It's also my mom you see in the wheelchair on the photo. She passed on to the other side on the 12th of July last year. I dedicated my bit of the Renate exhib to her.
cRIPpa XXX

Beasts On A Hill

Here's a few thumbnail sketches for my two pages of the Sean Aaberg artzine. The left one is inspired by the body of an elephant and the head of a boar. The right one is inspired by a monkey, bird and crab.

Also, I guess the avatar thing wasn't working out?

Strap On

Vivictoeria

Online Asshole

I've got a website now if anyone's innarested:

ink studies & sketch's from "inos"

Monstrous Trading Cards!

Check out this great set of scans taken from a series of weird trading cards based on monsters. Normally I'd have posted this at Monster Brains but I've got that place on lockdown for the Witches Exhibit. And I'm sure most of you will want to see these inspiring artworks of weird ...things.

Hell Dorado

Some interesting sculptures of demons I found. More here.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

On behalf of ME, my wife Katie and Daughter Sarah, I would like to wish all of my fellow Ducks a happiest of Halloweens.

An Interview With Noémie Barsolle

I emailed Noemie Barsole in order to get the new issue of Saignante ("Bleeding Woman" I guess could be an acceptable translation for "Saignante"; The blog of this fanzine is to be found here)… She draws very well. Her work is strong and true to her life. She agreed to answer some questions about it. You can have a look at her blog here… And don’t forget to hit the comment button If you wish to tell her something, I’m sure she will read them.




G: Hi Noemie. How are you?
N: Very good thanks. I have a small cold but nothing serious.

G: I’d like to ask you some questions about Vague à larmes. From my opinion it is a beautiful book. Where did you draw it ? Did you do it in a café ? In you room ? With friends ?
N: I began the sketches and the first drawings at my job (I worked at the time in a survey institute), I was drawing whilst interviewing people on the phone. Then I drew all the other pages alone in the woods, during nice sunny days of the summer time. Actually I got the collages ready at home listening to the radio and then I moved to settle down in the woods.

G: What did you feel when you drew it? Was it this sort of lonely anguishe and the vulnerability which is present at the beginning of the book?
N: Actually I was entangled with very complicated sentimental stories which inspired me most of the book. But originally the monstrous character came from a dream. All the story "vague à larme" relates to a period of my life when I felt alone confronting existential and practical questions about love, couple relationship, and what they generated inside my body. I was confused by alcohol induced euphoria and by the exaltation of affective or sexual love stories. All that created inside of me obsessions and true drifting which I needed to flush out by means of drawing.

G: In page 5 a mysterious boy, who is into bondage, appears. He looks very cute actually. The walking girl is scared when she realises that he has spied on her. Then the boy is transformed into a grotesque but reassuring monster. I’d like to know more about this… Could it be anguishing idealisation of the unknown which is transformed after a while into reassuring but disgusting trivial fact?
N: I am going to describe this character: he doesn’t physically exist. He is the fruit of the girl’s imagination. Some kind of undisclosable phantasm which is embodied in this grotesque, mysterious and scary figure. She doesn’t know him but she has known from the beginning that he has followed her. As something which she has voluntarily repressed which is quickly coming back and which you have to cope with. Somehow it is similar to waking up from a nightmare without knowing the end of it. He keeps his mask because she doesn’t admit who he is. This character (it is kind of a revelation) will give birth to anguishes and introspections which are at the core of all the rest of the book.
G: Where does symbolism appear in the work? For example could the last drawing be an overview on different possible lives for the girl we saw at the beginning ?
N: All the images are full of symbolism. Each one reveals a fragment of my intimate life. It is more or less clear to the reader and limpid for me. Sexes represent men and women , and in a way I am the young girl. The masked character is more complex. At the beginning he is hidden, he isn’t much scary but he is intriguing, he is the repressed element which gallops in the direction of consciousness and self. He becomes then a bit more monstrous when he half unveils and his sight will bring the girl into the mazes of her thoughts and she will by that means live an introspection by revisiting her innermost soul, her fantasy, her fears, her anguishes, in short everything which disturbs her and makes her doubt about the elements of her daily life. The next to last image represents her total immersion inside of herself with the possibility to start again from the beginning. The last character who is covered with eyes is the masked man whom we saw at the beginning. He comes back as a chorus but, anyway, she has moved on because she has unmasked him, she understood him. The eye could symbolise clear or guilty conscience (inside the grave the eye was watching Cain) on the contrary the masked man at the beginning belonged to repressed feelings and unconsciousness.

G: There are pictures related to everyday life and depressed feelings in Vague à larmes. Are those drawings expressing some kind of revolt?
N: Possibly… But it is an innermost revolt. I didn’t denounce anything. I just tried to express deep feelings which I encountered at a time when I felt very lonely, very lonely in "my woman’s role". A woman who drinks is not respected, a woman who flirts is a whore, and a woman who does not want children isn’t normal, she is called a nullipara. This scientific term contains the word null ! I had to encounter criticism as often from men than from women and systematically. This book came from my incapacity to defend myself by speaking and as a consequence it could be a type of revolt.

G: Do you think intimimacy and social commitments are compatible in a work ?
N: Hem… I think the previous answer could work for this one as well. But it’s true it is difficult to be understood because when you talk about yourself, you are nourished by your own universe which could be obscure for many people. And political commitments means something only if they can be shared, or could make somebody want to share them.

G: Any plans for the future ?
N: I drew a 40 pages comic which is very dear to me and I’d like to publish it by hook or by crook.
G: Thank you ! Bye.
N: Bye!

Monsters, Weirdos & Creeps

Released on HALLOWEEN! I finally got a card series together. 27 cards featuring all sorts of Monsters, Weirdos & Creeps on one side & then comix, profiles of heroic people (like Will Elder, Ed Roth & Dr. Demento) & assorted other weirdness on the other side. 1.50 a pack ppd. 7 cards per pack. Best collector card deal in the country. The actual wax pack packaging is full of rantings & ravings for full ephemeral overload!

Get yourself some. You can paypal me 1.50 per pack to gogoblinko at gmail dot com.

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new ink "Opening of the Mouth"