A detailed illustrated appreciation of the classic
Heavy Metal, October 1979: Lovecraft special issue…

What the cool kids are sewing onto their swimming bags this semester…

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! is a U.S. weekend convention dedicated to artists of the fantastic. It’s in Kansas City in May 2012. The event is a venture of the editors of Spectrum magazine.

The winning entries for the Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land game review competition. The task was to write a review of the game in the style of Lovecraft…

I am not mad. That they found my wretched form in the darkest recess of the library long after closing, staring into a pane of blackened glass and maniacally gesturing at imaginary denizens within, proves only that the twisted minds at Red Wasp Design have succeeded in channelling the Great Old Ones, unleashing their eldritch horror into our unsuspecting homes. I imagine the jaundiced, hunched forms toiling at their arcane art, rictus grins broadening at the thought of the psychological terror they have realised in their “Wasted Land”, at the innocent minds corrupted by this absorbing, addictive “pastime”.

The great French comic book artist and writer Moebius has passed away.

Two new 3D portraits of Lovecraft…

Adelben sculpted a face of H.P. Lovecraft in ZBrush and rendered it with 3DS Max…

Tom Kuebler’s “I am Providence”…

Are we getting to the point where a sumptuous coffee-table book could be produced, collecting all the portraits of Lovecraft?

Philip Horne in The Telegraph today muses on Edgar Allan Poe’s stranglehold on popular culture. I suspect we’ve passed the cultural tipping point, and are now heading for a similar long-term endurance for Lovecraft.

Thinking of making a webcomic featuring Lovecraft the man? I found a toon Lovecraft, rigged with a skeleton, for use with the popular cartooning and animation software Anime Studio.

L.A. Stage reports that Re-Animator: The Musical is alive – and re-animating!

“Based on the book by H.P. Lovecraft, adapted by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon and William Norris, with music and lyrics by Mark Nutter, helmed by Gordon, the Ovation Award-winning rock tuner – also nominated for 4 LADCC Awards and 8 LA Weekly Awards – is moving to downtown LA’s Hayworth Theatre for a 10-week run, prior to its appearance at NYMF (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The original cast, including George Wendt, is intact – occasionally headless, but intact.”