Professor Cushing’s Crypt of the Macabre Podcast

Oooooooo spoooooooky! Some of our friends over at Tales From The Parent’s Basement decided to do a fun podcast centering on horror films, in particular some of the offerings from British film makers over the years! It looks like once a month they will have a new podcast featuring two movies which they announced a month prior, so the listeners can also have a chance to watch the films and participate. Pretty nifty idea, and I will be trying to get my hands on a few of those films to give them a watch!

Films for next month: The Mummy (Hammer, 1959), The Blood On Satan’s Claw (Tigon, 1970)

Also, check out that sweet banner created by Andy Bloor!

Web Comics – Charles Cutting

Visit Charles’ site here

One of the best parts of running a blog and podcast about comic books and illustrated work is most of the time I would spend cruising the internet, checking out websites and random things is actually time well spent and constructive. So when we were searching around for web comics for our recent web comic show, I hit a lot of sites . . . some great, some bad and just about everything in between was found during several long web crawls.

Charles Cutting’s website and webcomics while short, were some of them that stuck with me. First up we have The Dream Quest of Randolph Carter , which is the first chunk of a planned upcoming graphic novel. Based upon “The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath” from HP Lovecraft, it is far from what I expect visually when I think of anything from Lovecraft. I was expecting dark, heavily inked pages that so many people citing his stories as a source often do. But this was vibrant, explosively bright and lush, swapping the grey/green/red/black palette I imagined in my head for lemon yellow, sky blue, meadow green and fire-raging orange!

It really makes for gorgeous reading experience, and I really can’t wait to see more!

And for his other project, I am just going to let him explain what it is all about and why you should check it out:

The Doings Of Vincent John Mckeown

From The Website:

Crossroads Care’s website features the ongoing fantastical graphic biography of the Oxford poet Vincent John McKeown who died in 2009. It is written by Christian David and illustrated by myself, and will deal with his early life, his poetry and how he came to terms with multiple sclerosis. The Vincent John McKeown Memorial Fund has been created by Crossroads Care to enable carers and their disabled relatives or friends to enjoy the arts. We hope that our graphic novel will help generate interest in the fund as well as being a fitting tribute to Vincent’s life and work. The web address is www.vincentfund.org.uk/comic

Extra Credits: True Female Characters

As always, these guys have put together one hell of package on promoting “smart thinking But seriously, this falls in line with many of my viewpoints on both what makes good characters and the lack of representation of females in these roles, where honestly, I think with just a few shifts, we would get some our best gaming experiences and characters out of a female lead. This is also true with comics, movies, books and all other sorts of entertainment . . . also, feminist chicks dig me!

Good Plus Online – Cobra Peanuts

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, go visit our buddies over at Good Plus Online! You can find them here and I promise if you go there and input “burntweiners” as your special online code, you will be treated . . well . . to . . uh . . . HEY, WHAT’S THAT!?!?!!? *runs away*

Comic Twart – Art Blog

In one of the most awesome blogs to be placed on the internet in 2010, you can find top talent drawing some of their favorite characters. Who do you ask? Well how about Andy Kuhn, Chris Samnee, Tom Fowler, Francesco Franavilla, Mitch Breiteiser, Nathan Fairbairn, Ron Salas, Evan Shaner and several other awesome artists!

Then the deal is that there is a character for that particular week, and most of the artists will take a crack at making that character the most awesome they possibly can . . . and BOY DO THEY! You will find Zorro, Firebreather, Superman, Doctor Who, Sandman, Dan Dare and Popeye to name a few!

Check out some of the samples you will find there:

Murderbullets from James Stokoe

James Stokoe, currently working on the awesome “Orc Stain” from Image comics (check it out if you haven’t), just put out 100 pages of an unreleased comic he was working on called “Murderbullets” . . . all for free on his blog! This guy is ten kinds of awesome!

Well, I now know what I will be doing after Walking Dead tonight . . .

“My Son Is Gay” Article from NerdyAppleBottom.com

Please go to the original site in which this is posted, and leave comments and support for both the author and her child. This is an amazing story and lesson, and we are reposting it to help spread the word.

http://nerdyapplebottom.com/2010/11/02/my-son-is-gay/

My Son Is Gay

Tales from the Parents Basement

As you are not listening to enough comic podcasts, let me suggest another one, this one being Tales From The Parents Basement (click the pic above to be taken to their site). Earlier today I stumbled across their site in a search for something else, and was scrolling around on their site when I see they interview Phil Hester and Fiona Staples, some of my favorites in the comic book world. Check out the show . . . it is good, folks!

Fun interviews, shows with a good amount of energy (although not so over the top you want to strangle people), and a pretty slick web page design all make for an appealing visit . . . but wait . . . they have forums . . . and they seem pretty damn full of comic book lovers!

Think I found a new place to stop on the net and a new show to listen to each week. Just do yourself a favor and go over and a tleast check out some of the covers (like the one below) they use for an episode teaser . . .

Hark! A Vagrant

It’s Funny . . . you know it is, so just go read it. Oh fine, you need proof, check out the below, but don’t come groveling back to me when you realize I am right and you want me to take you back, CAUSE I WON’T! I’m sorry baby, sometimes Ike Turner just gets sooo mad . . .

Art of God Machine Blog

The machine has spoken, and it said “God” . . .

Um, check out this dude’s blog, buy some art, wash your body in some eviscerated entrails and buckets of blood. Every nightmare I have ever had is somehow recreated in vivid and wicked ways upon a canvas, and I for one FUCKING LOVE IT!

Garage Kit Zombie

Garage Kit Zombie is a site run by a gentleman who builds and paints resin models for the likes of us folks who are dorky enough to want a kickass one, but well, just not talented enough to make it look as awesome as we want! I will be honest, I have no idea what his prices are, but the site is sure fun to look at! Maybe one of these days I will get some Firefly, Aliens or The Thing models done, have them looking super sweet on the edge of my desk, and get all sorts of super sweet poon! OK, so the more likely scenario is I would just have something cool next to me while tossing off to internet porn.

Check out his blog to see some of the awesome works in progress below!

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