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Art and comics.  Two great things, that often go hand in hand, much to the argument of certain elitist types.  ComicBookResources has a press release about Ben Templesmith’s soon to be released “Art of Wormwood”, a collection of artwork from the “Wormwood” comic series.

Templesmith’s visual approach, which has been described as “daring, horrific, and sometimes just plain perverse” has gained a cult following for his work in graphic novels including 30 Days of Night, Fell, Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse and more recently Welcome to Hoxford. He has said he is influenced by the science-fantasy cosmos of H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones and the work of H.R. Giger.

Read more details about the book and special edition hard cover at ComicBookResources.

In a move that just ruins days for other security guards of the world, one security guard had decided to not only tell a girl she couldn’t take pictures of Lovecraft’s grave, but then kicked it up a notch by adding in demands of image deletion, verbal abuse, and all around jackassery.

Found at BoingBoing

You would have been 118 years old today, Mr. Lovecraft!  Happy birthday to you!

I’m sure most of you who visit my site know who Howard Philips Lovecraft was (or is), and know that he is said to be one of the most influential writers in horror of the 20th century, but for those who don’t know, he has influenced more of our entertainment in the writing, music, and film fields than most of us really realize.  From Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot”, to the always entertaining “Herbert West: Re-Animator” movies, to Metallica’s “The Thing That Should Not Be”, Lovecraft has snuck his tendrils into immortality.

You can find a whole lot more to read about his life, philosophies, writings, and of course, his influence on contemporary works at Wikipedia’s entry for H. P. Lovecraft.

Just a little info about Steampunk happenings to be found at this year’s DragonCon.  Found over at Steampunk Magazine.  As they say there, “Steampunkiness”.

Comic(s) Relief has up a mini review of the French graphic novel “Les Mondes de Lovecraft”.  Read the review at Comic(s) Relief.

Chaosium is now accepting submissions for the fourth Halloween Horrors Monograph.

Each entry must be an original BRP adventure between 6,000 - 10,000 words. Text files or word documents only. Don’t submit PDF’s, quark files, etc. Don’t worry, 6,000 words is much shorter than it sounds!

Entries must be turned in before October 1st, 2008.

If you think you’re a good writer, or a good artist, then why don’t you head over to Chaosium and take a look.

One of my favorite Lovecraftian blog sites on the Intarwebs just turned a year old this recent Saturday!  Happy Birthday Grim Reviews!

Penny Arcade’s Lovecraftian steampunk comic RPG game “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: episode 1″ is being followed up by part 2 in Fall of 2008!  I still have to check out Episode one, which may require me to buy a 120GB drive for my XBOX 360, as mine is completely full right now… Curse you small capacity 20GB drive!

Found at WorthPlaying