#dave carson

[charnel-grounds]

“You don’t eat me, okay?”

Dave Carson, illustration to “Only Human” by Adrian Cole

Fantasy Tales Vol. 13 #7, Winter 1991 — source

[oldschoolfrp]

I, for one, welcome our new Lovecraftian overlords (Dave Carson, Palladium Fantasy RPG Book II: Old Ones by Kevin Siembieda, Second Edition, 1996)

[chronivore]

Dave Carson

[sandmandaddy69]

Dave Carson

[omnimic]

And after solving our scanner issues, we’re back with the Fighting Fantasy Book #25, Peter Darvill-Evans’ Beneath Nightmare Castle. In this one, the medieval fantasy world of Titan is injected with some fairly heavy duty Lovecraftian horror, making this one of the more genuinely scary entries in the series. Dave Carson’s illustrations, however, don’t quite match the horror of the text, but that is no sleight against the artist. No doubt, some of the more disturbing imagery would have to be toned down for the illustrations for what is nominally a children’s book. As such, some creatures (such as the Vitriolic Essence on the frontis, or the amorphous mass of twitching limbs and mouths that forms the main antagonist Xakhaz) look slightly silly, By contrast, the unused (for obvious reasons) picture of the woman with tentacles in her mouth is perfectly grotesque.

Finally, Terry Oakes’ cover illustration of the Spiked Maiden is an odd choice given her rather less-than-prominent role in the book. Surely some undead monstrosity would’ve served better as a cover model.

[kalitera-stin-erimia]

I'm probably not being original here...

But Junji Ito would have made great illustrations for The Great God Pan. He can do uncanny valley so well.

That's this depiction of Helen's death by Dave Carson that made me realize this. Very reminiscent of one of the most famous scenes from Tomie (the one with the portrait). Tomie herself is similar enough to Helen, though, unfortunately, it seems that her character gets little development despite the length of the comic.

[weirdlandtv]

Concept art for WILLOW (1988) by Richard Vander Wende, John Bell, and Dave Carson.

[fieldofshit]

Dave Carson