MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS: VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RICH INNER LIFE

Hey guys! Monster Mayhem Thursdays is BACK!

I realize it's no longer Thursday, but I drew this on Thursday, so it still counts in my book. And I realize that ol' Vlad here isn't, technically, a monster, but as a once and future journalist, I think he is undeniably pretty monstrous. So, again, it still counts in my book.

Anyway, it's not that great, but what the Hell... I thought I might as well share it with y'all. 

Just to let y'all know, I'm working on some serious longer-form essays that I hope to promote here and elsewhere in an effort to make a real go at this whole blogging thing. It's been a long time since I've had a sizable audience, and to be honest, I do kind of miss it. Anyhoo, since it's just us at this point, I can be informal and not too uptight about publishing first words down as completed work. Expect me to up my game in the very near future, and once that starts, anything y'all can do to help promote my work would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

yer old pal Jerky

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAY ON SUNDAY!

I missed a couple weeks of Monster Mayhem Thursdays, and this week's offering is kind of sub-par, but I did want to get something monster and illustration related up here at the DDD, regardless, just to let y'all know that I haven't given up on that particular hobby/interest quite yet. Believe me, the image looked a lot better before I ruined it with my pathetic attempt at colorization. And if you think this digital version looks crap, you should see the original. Yuck City.

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS - PRINCE STOLAS OF HELL

This is my depiction of Prince Stolas, described by Wikipedia as "a Great Prince of Hell", who "commands twenty-six legions of demons, and teaches astronomy and the knowledge of poisonous plants, herbs and precious stones. He is also known as Stolos and Solas. He is depicted as either being a crowned owl with long legs, a raven, or a man.

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAY - DAGON THE SEA-KING!

I guess you could say this is second in a series of re-imaginings of various Lovecraft deities. A few weeks ago, I did Yog-Sothoth (a personal favorite), but in the Kenneth Grant mode, rather than Lovecraft's visually uninteresting "iridescent bubbles". Today, I take a crack at Father Dagon! He's got a Devil Ray as a cloak. ENJOY!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS... THE MAD DOCTOR FROM ROBOT CHICKEN!

This week's "monster" isn't very monstrous, but he was a special request from a friend, and he took up my Thursday afternoon, so he's all you're getting, you greedy frickin' bastids...

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAY - "Z MOVIE" MINI-POSTER!

This week's Monster Mayhem Thursday is brought to you by ZaAt! - also known as Blood Waters of Dr. Z - as memorably mocked by the Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang a few years back.  In fact, you can watch them tear apart this were-catfish abomination in the attached video, below!

Before you start watching though, allow me to repeat the point that the monster in this film is, indeed, a were-catfish. Half man, half catfish. And the crazed scientist who has managed to do this to himself - for reasons that are never quite made clear - is an escaped Nazi, to boot! Then again, aren't they all?

Anyway... Enjoy! And "keep circulating the tapes!"

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAY DOUBLE-SHOT!

Last week, I brought you guys my take on the Typhonian occultist Kenneth Grant's unique descriptive variation on H.P. Lovecraft's original creation, the evil Elder God Yog Sothoth. This week, I figured I might as show you guys how the inked version turned out.

Also, seeing as the above image is essentially a repeat, I thought I'd also show you guys my latest exercise in color marker doodling... the tragic, murderous living tumor Belial from Frank Henenlotter's infamous Basket Case series of low budget exploitation horror films. Enjoy!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS!

It's been a while, but I figured I might as well revive an abandoned tradition by sharing with you all a sketch that I began working on today, Thursday, September 26, 2014! It's a portrait of the Lovecraftian Elder God known as Yog-Sothoth, as re-imagined by occultist Kenneth Grant for his own particular dark version of things... Now, this is a pencil rough that I'll be inking over the next few days, so watch for the final image in these pages, coming some time soon!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS!

Bit of a cheat this week - three images of a single character from a potential traditional, three-panel'er comic strip that I'm working on called WINGNUT versus MOONBAT. Three guesses as to which one this handsome character is!

PS - You're probably also gonna want to click on the image to see it in its "original" size. It looks a lot better that way!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS DOUBLE CREATURE FEATURE!

Seeing as how I chintzed y'all out last week by giving you a bunch of old monsters that I'd drawn last year rather than the "absolutely 100 percent fresh new monster goodness" that I'd promised, I hereby present you with two all-new, wholly original creations from my sketch-book.

First up is the Meandering Flapper. He stands atop four spindly legs that end in cloven hooves, and his mostly-mouth of a head is ringed by a quartet of obviously useless wings, with the whole assembly being topped by prehensile bi-pupiloid eye-stalks and a scent-sensing nasal prong (pat.pend).

This week's second entry is the dreaded Chupa Kadavra. He appears in a short story I'm working on that's kind of like, what if instead of getting into crystal meth production, the high school teacher from Breaking Bad got into trouble by dabbling in the Black Arts? Say he cast some sort of half-assed spell, thereby imbuing decades worth - nay, generations' worth - of chewing gum with a malevolent sentience. The end result? The Chupa Kadavra! Stupid? Yes, but I like it, so you have to look at it.

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS: A COUPLE OLDIES

I got caught up in a bunch of drama today so I couldn't come up with a fresh monster for y'all, so I figured I'd give you a threesome of monsters that were originally pencil-sketched by my buddy Dave Starr, which I then inked, scanned into the computer, colorized a bit and am now posting here for y'all's enjoyment! So behold SASQUATCH, LIZARDO and FLOATING TENTACLE BEAST! And sorry if you've seen these before...

Also, as an added extra bonus, here are a couple more angles I came up with - a "glamour pose" and an "action shot" - featuring the 'SQUATCH!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS: ENTER MOONFACE!

...aaand I'm just slipping in under the wire with this week's entry: MoonFace. Or MoonHEAD, as the case may be. This is a creature design for a short film script that I am currently working on with my writing partner Marc Roussel, of Remote and The Last Halloween infamy. You can see his director's reel here. Anyway, if you'd like to see MoonFace appear in a short film some time soon, send me a shitload of cash via the donation button on the top right-hand corner of the screen! Come on! Don't be fuckin' stingy, mate! Ah, I'm just kiddin'. When the time comes, we'll set up a proper begging plate via KickStarter or whatever. For today, however, enjoy... MOONFACE!

MONSTER MAYHEM THURSDAYS, FIRST EDITION!

From here on out, every Thursday evening I will be scanning and uploading a new monster drawing. You probably won't be seeing many vampires or werewolves or zombies in this space, however. These drawings will mostly be in a Lovecraftian vein, with plenty of tentacles and pseudopods and asymmetrical limbs sticking out every which-a-way... you know, the kind of thing you'd expect to see in silhouette, lurching and teetering across the horizon, barely visible in the wan corpse-like light of a glowering gibbous moon, accompanied by the keening sound of otherworldly pipes and whistles and the choking stench of a moldering charnel pit.

Because I'm in a generous mood, I'm going to kick off this new weekly tradition with a two-fer!

First up, we've got this "Lovecraftian Sea-Creature Study" that I sketched last week (Thursday, April 24, 2014). I tried to incorporate a number of incongruous elements from various sea-beasts, including not only the usual and obligatory tentacles - a whole mish-mash of them in this case, including some wormy ones, some snake-like ones, and an architeuthis dux feeding tentacle with hooking club - but also various sucker-feelers, spiny fins, a weaponized crustacean claw and a distressingly vaginal gaping maw borrowed from nature's ugliest fishy, the Goblin Shark.

I call this one DRIPPY the QUIMBEAST!

Now, for the second half of today's Creature Two-Fer, here's another strange, chimerical beast, this one combining the flap-like head of a skate/ray, the hairy hooves and hindquarters of a Satyr, a double row of giant fingers running down its spine, a poisonous clubbed tail and a three-way gaze all its own. Drawn today, Thursday, May 1st, 2014...

I call this one DER FINGERLING!

Check back with yer old pal Jerky in one week's time for even more hideously heinous monster renderings in a jugular vein!