from right to left: Hunger, Plague, Death, and War art by Stepan Alekseev

(Art) The Psychedelia of Tadanori Yokoo

Tadanori Yokoo, born in Nishiwaki, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan’s most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. […]

(Art) The Brilliant Beauties of Valentina Remenar

Slovenian illustrator and concept artist Valentina Remenar likes to paint beautiful people in fantastic and colorful settings. Find more on her website.  

(Fiction) The Red King

Anders Benet had murdered his mother in the womb. He had no memory of this, nor could he say he intended the woman any harm. Indeed, it wasn’t until his fourteenth year that he killed […]

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. –Pablo Picasso

I keep running into these self-styled creative experts who want to tell you there’s no such thing as inspiration. There’s just work. If the goal is to stop people from using “waiting for inspiration” as […]

(Art) The Airy Celestials of “Clockbirds”

Find more by the artist on her DeviantArt page.    

(Art) Cover Madness!

The latest cover designs for my forthcoming occult mystery, FEAST OF SHADOWS. Covers are not for fans but for those unfamiliar with the book, so hopefully this is intriguing. The book is split into two […]

(Art) The Elegant Macabre of Kotaro Chiba

Continuing the themes I discussed in Macabre and Erotic Obsessions: Contemporary Japanese Illustration, the wonderfully elegant line work of Kotaro Chiba.

As someone who sculpts in words and sentences for a living, I find this fascinating.

Another giant monster from Josh Guglielmo’s “Age of the Atom” project.