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Illustration for an article/podcast about one of the weirdest paranormal / extraterrestrial / inter-dimensional phenomenons on record: Sam the Sandown Ghost Clown (aka the Sandown Spaceman, aka the Golf Links Ghost)

“In the spring of 1973, two children had a run in with an inexplicable clown-like entity that eerily beckoned to them from beneath a bridge and managed to lead them into what some have speculated was an alternate dimension.”

https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/

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My sticker/T-shirt illustration (with type design by Marc Storrs), my original illo for American Monsters and various eyewitness sketches and a Japanese toy inspired by the classic Russian CE3K case of the...

VORONEZH ALIENS: In what may be the most bizarre extraterrestrial encounter ever reported, dozens of eyewitnesses claimed that in the autumn of 1989, a trio of colossal, robotic, three-eyed aliens—along with their boxy mechanical companion—landed and attacked a pair of teens in a Russian park.

Here’s our podcast about this bat shit crazy case: https://cryptonautpodcast.com/podcast/42-voronezh-aliens/

Here’s the original article I wrote back in 2010: https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/voronezh-aliens-russia/

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T-shirt design for the awesome Monsters Among Us Podcast's “Cryptid Crate” memorializing a terrifying 1988 encounter between a teenager and 7-foot tall, green scaly skinned, red-eyed monster known as the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp.

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"Saint Harryhausen" is my tribute to the extraordinary life and career of artist, writer,  producer and “Dynamation” creator Ray Harryhausen. It is nearly impossible to overestimate Harryhausen's contributions to contemporary cinema. Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, John Landis, Joe Dante, John Lasseter, George Lucas (the list literally goes on and on) have all acknowledged the profound influence Harryhausen has had on their work and, as if that weren’t enough, his animation for “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” directly inspired executives at Toho Studios to create their most iconic character: Godzilla! While it might be forgivable for a novice movie fan to dismiss Harryhausen as a great stop-motion animator who worked on a couple of good (and not-so good) sci-fi/fantasy flicks during the 20th Century, the fact is that Harryhausen may well be the most influential filmmaker of the last half-century. From “Star Wars” to “Jurassic World” to “Lord of the Rings” to “Avatar” to “Piranha” to “Mars Attacks“, the work of Ray Harryhausen has inspired generations of filmmakers across the globe to create the type of cinema which has gained dominance over the past 40 years; the blockbuster. On a personal note, most of my favorite cinematic moments would not have happened if Harryhausen had not animated (I’m lookin’ at you Mighty Joe Young, Talos and Ymir) or inspired them and for that I am forever grateful!

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Some character roughs for a noir-ish graphic novel I've been workin' on for what feels like years!

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Self portrait.

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Dramatic depictions of Ro-Man by Rob Morphy (top) and Chris Moet (bottom).  Ro-Man was the villain in the 1953 science fiction film The Robot Monster, which is not known for being particularly frightening.

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It was bound to happen someday... my version of what is arguably the most iconoclastic portrait of the 20th Century... Mr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara. I call this piece: "[rev-uh-loo-shun]"