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Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

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(via 22 Décembre 2024: adski_kafeteri — LiveJournal)

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Now, unlike Michael Newton’s book of hope, I appreciate the clarity of this book’s title: Encyclopedia of Things that Never Where (1985). Stating that definitively really gets all that belief malarkey out of the way and lets us appreciate these things on their own imaginary terms (as Georgess McHargue encouraged us to do on Monday).

This book is more like a collection of several small topical encyclopedias, each discrete from the others and in their own alphabetical order. Nor do they necessarily make a perfect or intuitive sense all the way through. Things of the Cosmos is mostly gods of major mythologies, but also King Arthur and his knights. Things of the Ground and Underground collects faeries and tree spirits, but also the manticore, Minotaur and Sphinx. Things of Wonderland seems to imply things from literature, but really it collects all manner of fantastical places, from fiction, but also from legend. Things of Magic, Science and Invention could just as well have been called Things and left it at that; it collects notable items, from Thor’s hammer to Jekyll’s potion to the many unusual uses for nails. Things of Water, Sky and Air covers all the creatures not detailed in Earth chapter — Grendel is here, griffins, too, and all the sea serpents. Finally, Things of the Night details the undead and other creatures who hide from the sun, whether they go bump or not.

Robert Ingpen’s art throughout is a pure joy. There are so many illustrations, the book is awash in them, and they’re all amazing, often subverting expectation but also remaining recognizable. There’s a warmth to it, like sitting by a fire, and he has a real talent for collaging together different elements that feels less museum-like and more evokes the crowded study of an eccentric scholar. I can’t imagine the amount of time it took to put together this portfolio, but it was well worth it. It’s a treasure.

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Robert Ingpen's illustration of that Aztec god felt very familar to me, so I looked it up - it seems likely he swiped the mask from this 1976 Dean Ellis cover for To Live Forever by Jack Vance. But perhaps they were both using the same reference material?

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Jane Fisher

Die Hard 1988 | dir. John McTiernan

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Robo Rebels

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Swamp Thing (1982) dir. Wes Craven

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John Nadeau

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Adam Strange & The Rocketeer by Manu Loza

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PORCO ROSSO (1992) dir. hayao miyazaki

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Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues 2026 Polydor ——————————————————————— Tracks: 01. Rough and Twisted 02. In the Stars 03. Jealous Lover 04. Mr Charm 05. Divine Intervention 06. Ringing Hollow 07. Never Wanna Lose You 08. Hit Me in the Head 09. You Know I’m No Good 10. Some of Us 11. Covered in You 12. Side Effects 13. Back in Your Life 14. Beautiful Delilah 15. Bad Luck Hideaway ———————————————————————

Mick Jagger

Brian Jones

Keith Richards

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