Category Archives: Pictorial art

Monsters of the Bermuda Triangle

Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

The internet is a remarkable place. It inspires such astounding work at times. For example, conceptart.org is a community of artists who meet online, share and critique their work and often produce pictures of a high quality without recompense beyond … Continue reading →

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Alan Brooks and the Flying Saucers

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 by Robert Hood

One of the great cinematic creators of giant monsters is famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, whose movies have rested firmly at the centre of the Hollywood giant monster tradition since his 1953 The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Even earlier than … Continue reading →

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Godzilla vs the US Navy

Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

Godzilla does what he does best in the next installment of Todd Tennant’s American Godzilla ’94 graphic novel: For those who don’t know, kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been engaged in an ambitious project to create a … Continue reading →

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Vintage Robots, Part Seven: A Different Vintage

Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

Worth1000 has just posted the results of their latest themed contest. The theme: Borgged Art — robots Photoshopped into works of art. Here is a rather nifty piece called “Th3 D4v1d”: See the other creations here.

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Big Win for “The Arrival”

Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

Back in 1991 I sold a story called “Groundswell” to Aurealis magazine — my first in that now-venerable Australian SF journal. The story was illustrated by a then little-known WA artist by the name of Shaun Tan. It was a … Continue reading →

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Demons About the House

Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 by Robert Hood

It didn’t strike me as obvious until our visit to the British Museum in London a few weeks ago: if you want something supernatural to protect you from demons, you’d better get something pretty scary to take on the job. … Continue reading →

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American Godzilla Page 56

Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 by Robert Hood

There has been a glitch with the American Kajiu site, a glitch that resulted in the reinstatement of an older version of Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the 1994 Jan De Bont script, and the subsequent removal of the most … Continue reading →

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A Card for the Season

Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 by Robert Hood

Season’s Greetings, Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas and a great ’08 to one and all from myself and Cat! May the three-headed reindeer of the Apocalpyse bring you joy and fantastical rampaging in the new year! By the way, the Reindeer’s … Continue reading →

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Godzilla 1998 Designs

Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by Robert Hood

Here are some of Tatopoulos Studio’s design elements for the 1998 film — a film I rather like, not as a Godzilla remake but as a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, which it more closely resembles. The Beast … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu vs Godzilla

Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

Now this would make a great addition to the Toho canon! This is the cover of a long-running American fanzine, Crypt of Cthulhu. The artist is the magazine’s original editor, Robert M. Price. The picture comes courtesy of Leigh Blackmore, … Continue reading →

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