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Post by fullbreakfast on Jul 9, 2008 20:44:38 GMT
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Post by redbrain on Jul 10, 2008 14:53:15 GMT
Is it just me, or does the Frankenstein's monster in the last one - with his orange jersey, green scarf and supercilious expression - look camp as hell?? He so is!! I'm pleased to see that a few of the covers don't have female victims.
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Post by redbrain on Jul 10, 2008 14:54:16 GMT
He also looks as though he might be an Elvis impersonator!
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Post by bushwick on Jul 10, 2008 17:19:53 GMT
These are brilliant! Can't believe I've not heard of these before. The covers are kinda generic, lurid and tasteless, which is a good thing obviously. Nice anatomy and draftsmanship though. You don't see much of that style these days, do ya?
(FM if you are reading this, book will be with you by beginning of next week, cheers for the Herne [read it already], i am the world's slackest man)
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Post by bushwick on Jul 10, 2008 17:42:19 GMT
Just checking that Empire Of The Claw site and it's excellent so far, by the way. Interesting that these Eerie mags were mainly just reprints of 1950s EC ripoffs - have read a little about these in Martin Barker's "A Haunt Of Fears" - they're the Lucio Fulci to EC's George Romero, I guess. Great pulp/exploitation/drive-in ethics. The stories looked crude compared to the work of Jack Davis, Graham Ingels etc, but they look pretty damn good now! Like, I said, no-one draws like this anymore...maybe it's just not possible, in the way that it's just not possible to write a 'sincere', non-ironic Richard Allen or 'animals on the rampage' novel these days...a point i shall ponder...
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Post by fullbreakfast on Jul 10, 2008 20:17:21 GMT
The covers are kinda generic, lurid and tasteless, which is a good thing obviously. Absolutely! It's the little details on some of these covers that crack me up. Like the fact that Camp Frankenstein's acid bath is neatly labelled ACID BATH - so handy to prevent any mishaps on wash day! - or what I can only describe as the malevolent newt lurking rather pointlessly behind Headless Frankenstein's legs on the third one I posted. It's fair to say these covers make up for in sheer incident what they lack in coherence or any kind of logic... Even though the Eerie covers are mainly just good for laughs, there's something about their relentlessly squalid content and the (almost obsessively) repetitive situations they tend to depict that makes me think I wouldn't like to have lived in the artist's mind. You don't see much of that style these days, do ya? Like you say elsewhere, I don't think anyone working today could really get under the skin of the Eerie style even if they wanted to. And I don't suppose there are many that do.
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Post by fullbreakfast on Jul 10, 2008 20:22:57 GMT
He also looks as though he might be an Elvis impersonator! It's the big collar, isn't it ;D
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 16, 2008 12:44:34 GMT
(FM if you are reading this, book will be with you by beginning of next week, cheers for the Herne [read it already], i am the world's slackest man) Received Noah - many thanks!
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