Oriental fantastical fiction available in english

I'm not sure how Kobo Abe and Pu Songling and other chinese fantasy writers would fit into this picture as I have not read any of this stuff, but I've been interested in picking this stuff up because they will tend to pick up the best of the best at this point. I often wonder if there is a history of this stuff in africa and india aside from a few breakouts. There are also a large number of oriental bestiary books coming out.
Scotland and Ireland has always been the region that excites me most in terms of the visuals, feelings and myths of the places, I dont think it is just because I'm from Scotland(maybe it is), but there is a lot of collections dedicated to celtic stories, some good ones from Wordsworth Editions, who also recently put out a collection of old Australian horror, I cant even imagine what that might be like.

Kurodahan publish a lot of this stuff, they are an interesting publisher and here is their catalog

Ryunosuke Akutagawa- Hell Screen
This story can be found in numerous collections like Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories


Ueda Akinari- Tales Of Moonlight And Rain


Kaiki: Uncanny Tales From Japan
The third book is coming soon




Lafcadio Hearn- Kwaidan, In Ghostly Japan



Toyohashi Collection Of Ancient Japanese Ghost stories
A kindle-only book that is supposed to be from a decades out of print book.


Japanese Tales
I think this is more fantasy focused.


Oriental Tales Of Terror


Izumi Kyoka- Japanese Gothic Tales, In Light Of Shadows
Amano cover on the second volume.



Edogawa Rampo- Japanese Tales Of Mystery & Imagination, Moju: The Blind Beast, Edogawa Rampo Reader, Black Lizard/ Beast In The Shadows





Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Notice how different the cover might be today.


Speculative Japan
Two volumes of this so far.


Lairs Of The Hidden Gods
Four volumes so far of lovecraftian stories by japanese writers.


Asamatsu Ken- Queen Of K'n-Yan
A cover by Castlevania artist Ayami Kojima.


Yoo
Seemingly a Weird Tales style magazine


Does anyone know anything about that singing style in ghostly/monster and samurai movies and games where there is ghostly voices going "YOOOOOOOOOOO! YOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!" ?

Aquirax Uno

Another artist I had never heard about until two weeks ago. Aquirax Uno. He is like the psychedelic Harry Clarke of Japan in the 60s. Where did this stuff come from?

horror vacui

horror vacui, première mise en ligne par Gaspard Pitiot.

A few new offerings.

I am halfway through about a half dozen others, though every other idiot on earth seems to want to occupy my time and keep me from being productive.

More baroque and chaotic in nature. The Spider Totem, neither living nor dead, is ever pregnant and ever receptive, ever baring her elemental children into being, and ever hungry for amusement- her only need and means of sustenance.

More so minimalist and abstract. An elemental dervish prances about the lake of smoke and cinders in a secret place wherein the moon never yields to the sun.



More to come, eventually.

Robert Saakayantz - Hey You, Talking Fish / Khosogh Dzuke (1983)

"Hayfilm Studio, cartoon (based on H.Tumanyan's tale "Talking Fish," financed by Moscow Central TV), 10min. (285m), color."

[Mothers - Masochists] [explaning the process]

[The beginning. I decided to create something BIG this time, kind of enlarged illustration. The theme I've chosen explores the relation between maternity and masochism, as I think, that decision to have and raise a child is self decided way to be tortured. Of course, there's some irony in this:]

[At first I thought to make background similar to striped wall-covering, like putting 'mothers' in their home environment]

[my workplace - my room. the drawing is hanged on the wall with paper tape.]

[going further. my messy table, hehe]

[close-up]

[then I decided that the background is distracting the view too much, so I've over-painted it gray]

[looks better, but needs some accents]

[so I painted light blue/ sky-blue lines, which shows resemblance with bowels. I wanted to keep cold colouring]

[evening. the lighting is not the best. I added the last accent - red ball in the mouth of the mother. My roommate said, that this ball reminds her Blutharsh clip]

[FINISHED]

[exposition at Vilnius Art Academy, where I'm studying visual graphic (this is not me standing near, though)]

A blog?

While doing a google search (for something) I stumbled upon this great blog - I guess that is what one would call it - that is just page after page of random images. It's like a visual test. How many proprietary images can you identify? I've never seen anything like this. I cannot stop paging through. Good stuff. below is just one of the the thousands of images set along-sdie Twi'Leks, the Time Machine, food images, x-rays, old electronics, logos, movie stills and celebrity portraits. I only post this one because it seems to optically alter when you scroll up & down and that is killer.

1348 and Inferno in Budapest

I just returned from Budapest, where I have been for a comics festival and an exhibition of pages from my upcoming book 1348 and Inferno (see above) which was translated into Hungarian in 2008 for Nyitott Konyvmuhely (don't ask me how that is pronounced) who also organised the festival. My show is part of a Dutch invasion which included other comic artists such as Joost Swarte (of RAW fame), Typex and the Lamelos crew. The whole deal is supported by the BKVB Art Fund in Amsterdam and the Dutch embassy. Quite an experience to be there! More information about the project can be found here: http://nl-hu.blogspot.com/

Osama Bin Laden's Corpse (ANIMATED GIF)

Don't Believe the Hype.

Exhibition at la Serre à Orgueil

new t-shirt design

...for INSULA MUSIC , best recordstore in copenhagen

IN REAL LIFE

Doing so much magazine layout has been making more open to screwing around with art ideas. I'm going to do some collages of photos to recreate some of my characters as they would look "in real life." I think i'm going to use these in my video game. These guys would be great fighting against giant 9-11 Twin Towers filled with intestines.
Cube Face

Pineapple Face

Pineapple Face by Revenge

Masquerade - Austria

In fairness this once mythical now largely theatrical creature was not confined to any one country but figured prominently in the culture of the Alpine region in general, Austrian traditions simply favor the Krampus more strongly. Even sourpuss political regimes who frowned upon this tradition, such as the Austrofascists, could not kill this ancient figure within their subjects' imaginations. During the first two weeks of December, many men dress as the Krampus and roam the streets menacingly as a warning to children of what may befall them if they should behave wickedly; a punishing counterpart to the dullard St. Nicholas. How much more interesting Christmas must be in the alps, in comparison to the utterly depressing holiday drivel that I am awash in every goddamn December on this side of the Atlantic. Winter ought to be a time to take in and relish the gloom and be reminded that you must and will die, and be all the wiser for knowing this. At least this point is not lost everywhere. In fact, anyone who sees this post, who possesses any remotely formidable artistic talent whatsoever, please take up your craft next December and pay visual tribute to the Krampus,  placing your efforts within the looking distance of the public eye. Lets not allow these sterile minded, soulless yuppies and their fat, spoiled kids (in dire need of a visit from the Krampus) to anesthetize every aspect of Winter with their wretched hallmark holidays.

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