‘The Monkey’s Teeth,’ French cartoon written by patients in a mental hospital
Les dents du singe (The Monkey’s Teeth) is the directorial debut of René Laloux, the animator who made Fantastic Planet and Time Masters. This, his…
Art Archives: 09/2018
The Peopled Wound: The strange and disturbing collages of Alex Eckman-Lawn
Artist Alex Eckman-Lawn started drawing comic books as a kid, he taught himself to draw from the pages of one of those How to Draw…
David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol
The soundtrack CD from the Art Gallery of Ontario show In between A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg curated a Warhol retrospective…
Gorgo smash, Gorgo chomp, Gorgo roar: Gorgo comics 1961-65
When Ray Bradbury wrote “The Fog Horn” he probably didn’t imagine the whole bestiary of monsters his short story would inspire. Though his beast from…
The grotesque and unsettling animated films and artwork of Erik Ferguson
Yeah, we know, social media has changed the way we view art. Galleries and exhibition spaces and even movie houses need no longer apply–just an…
Sound and vision: Scriabin’s Theosophical score for orchestra and ‘color organ’
Jean Delville’s title page for ‘Prometheus’ I’m no synesthete, so I’m still not sure what Eddie Van Halen meant by “the brown sound.” Sorry, Eddie:…
Undead, Undead: John Coulthart’s beautiful illustrations for Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
We all know what Dracula looks like. Bela Lugosi and innumerable Hammer horror movies starring Christopher Lee have fixed the Count in our imagination. He’s…