Some Horror Comics of Basil Wolverton

Included below are Wolverton's classic horror strips from the 1950's; Nightmare World, Robot Woman, They Crawl by Night!, Gateway to Horror, The Brain-Bats of Venus, and Swamp Monster. It's easy to talk about how influential and important Wolverton has been on the generations of comic artists that followed him yet it is somehow more difficult to explain the absolutely incredible range the man was capable of. Whether it was humor, horror, sci-fi serials or one page gags there was absolutely nothing the master journeyman couldn't pull off incredibly well. Wolverton proves that whatever difficulty other artists have with genre work in terms of losing their style or energy is just a lot of complaining. Truly one of the greats.

Hans Bellmer - Drawings

I have long known of Bellmer's Doll installations but was surprised to see his name put to a series of drawings I  discovered in a book by Bataille. I probably shouldn't have been surprised, and I wasn't in regards to the themes of the drawings, with their consistent interplay of Eros and Thanatos. What surprised me was the incredibly intricate,engaging, and original linework I observed. The obsessive pulsating form, penetrating, searching--destructive markmaking, hard and soft encasement. Incredible work. I strongly reccomend you click on the images and check out the detail.