Astonishing rarely-seen illustrations from the set of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Design sketches reveal the visual planning behind Kubrick’s sci‑fi masterpiece.
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Not for the faint-hearted: Gruesome medical illustrations from the 19th-century (NSFW)
Surgery to correct strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. The artist Francis Bacon spent many hours poring over illustrated medical books looking at surgical procedures…
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…
Illustrations of weird creatures and fabulous beasts from a Japanese ‘Monster Scroll’
Oyajirome–this monster will see you sneaking up with its big eye in the back of its head and then rip you apart with its one-talon…
Strange Illustrations of Robots, Devils, Fire-Breathing Witches, and Weapons of War from 1420
The Devil and all his internal works. There’s an episode of South Park where Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny try out different routines only to…
The wonderfully weird illustrations of Artuš Scheiner
City dweller, successful fella, worked in a bank as a clerk but he thought to himself, “I want to live a life that’s a lot…
Austin Osman Spare: Weird occult illustrations from ‘A Book of Satyrs’
In 1907, the artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare published his second volume of illustrations, A Book of Satyrs–or rather satires. Spare believed the word…
1870 A Space Odyssey: Astoundingly prophetic illustrations for Jules Verne’s ‘Around the Moon’
Top fact: Jules Verne is the most translated French author ever. Second slightly more impressive fact: Jules Verne is the second most translated author in…
Fantastic Beasts: Fabulous illustrations from classic Persian book of fables
Once upon a time, in the land of Persia, there lived a very wise old King called Anushirvan who had heard of an ancient book…
Ralph Steadman’s grotesquely brilliant illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
George Orwell had difficulty in getting Animal Farm published in the 1940s. His satirical fable about a farm being taken over by a cowardly, power-mad…