Sanjulian

As a follow up to yesterday's post on Warren Publishing/Creepy covers, I'd be delinquent not to mention that four of the six covers embedded in my post were created by the great Spanish painter/illustrator Sanjulian, aka Manuel Pérez Clemente.

When I was in my teens, I painted a few creepy canvases, giving them all away to friends. The most memorable of these was a painting of Cerberus guarding the gate at Hades, painted for my dear, sweet, sad, alcoholic friend Mike C. I didn't know it at the time, but I have to say now that those paintings were an unconscious attempt not only to express my own grim aesthetic fascinations, but also to emulate Sanjulian's work.

Clicking on Sanjulian's name above will take you to his online gallery, where some of the artist's work is for sale, and my birthday, the most important of all Satanic holidays, IS approaching.

Warren Magazine Covers

For an eyeball-bustin' good time, visit Cover Browser. Pages and pages and pages of cover scans from comics, horror/fantasy magazines, manga, graphic novels etc.—no erudite text to clog up your senses.

I'm especially fond of their Creepy magazine cover archives. Some of my favorite Marvel Comics artists, like Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta and Frank Brunner also worked for Warren Publishing, whose titles, like Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, pretty much shaped my consciousness through my pre-teen years, before the first Damned and Ramones albums took over. For higher-quality scans of the Warren books, albeit with a slightly clunkier, more Web-designery interface, also see Pixeltube's Warren Magazine Collection.