The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais this week featured a nicely stylised Lovecraft in a recent cartoon strip by their Max cartoonist, imagining a conversation between Disney and Lovecraft.
The punchline doesn’t translate at all well, but this is the best I can do with it…
COLOSSUS OF THE ARTS: Lovecraft and Disney.
HPL: Come on, Walt, admit it. You feel, as I do, a morbid fascination with evil things. What’s more, you far surpass me when it comes to expressing horror and the abominable. Your best creations have always been the evil characters, admit it.
Disney: That’s not true, Howard. What about Donald Duck?
HPL: Bah, who cares about that colourless wimp? Whereas your Scrooge McDuck, he would laugh at my Cthulhu and his cultists!
This was an unexpected gift. It is always good to see respectable artistic portrayals of Grandpa Theobald. The conversation is also amusing.