Tue 28 Mar 2006
Monster!
Posted by anaglyph under Art, Australiana, Nostalgia, Spooky
[16] Comments
One of my daily blog reads is illustrator Kevin Cornell’s wonderful Bearskin Rug*. In a recent post about childhood monsters, Kevin asked for readers’ memories of the things that went bump in the night and I mentioned my fear of the dreaded Prowler. Imagine my quivering horror to find that today’s Bearskin Rug features an uncannily accurate rendering of something I thought I had left far behind in the mists of the past.
Gee, thanks Kevin.
Whimper.
Can I open my eyes now…?
*You should be reading Bearskin Rug every day too – it’s not always as scary as this. Sometimes, but not always.
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Eeesh, how will you sleep tonight?
Not well Chickie, not well.
Looks like Pat The Bunny to me.
At least th Prowlr got th rite numbr o eyholes inda hood. Charlie Brown took th scary outta th ol 20-hole gost costume.
Yes, unless you peek in one of them holes and there’s no-one there…
Bizarrely, it looks just like my dog Daisy. Do you have inexplicable (till now)nightmares after visiting me, Reverend?
Everything looks like your dog Daisy, Pil.
No, Daisy is much friendlier. I can see the ‘ears’ thing, but really, Kevin’s portrait captures the essence of the evilness of The Prowler; the parted curtains, the superfluity of buttons on the Prowler’s ‘robe’, the strange inactive pose.
It’s almost as if he has read my mind…
hello!
:D
i just forts id stop and do a bit of sum lookin and say hello
ive did a bit of sum lookin and i alredy said hello ats the beginin
bye!
:D
That is some imagination you’ve got. I’m curious about the tied-up corners concept though. How did you come up with that?
But if there’s no one there, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Hey, could you make your banner so it links to the main page?
Little Noodle: Nice to see you dropped by.
Joe: I think it just surfaced from the depths of my childhood nightmares. Who knows where such things come from.
Anne Arkham: Ah, but that’s where you’re wrong; if there’s nothing there, than there’s so much more to be afraid of…
I’ve been working on the banner thing. Unfortunately, because I’ve used the clever Random-Quote-Each-Time-You-Visit trick, if I make the whole header a link it makes all the quotes underline and look supremely ugly. I haven’t got enough CSS skills to know how I can have this not happen. Bear with me, I’ll fix it in due course.
Im afraid of nothin.
Oh, on th bannr-link thing … I was wondrin th same thing as Anne ast about.
What woud serve just as well woud be sompm like a “Home” footr that occurs on evry page. Thatd preserv th beauty of yer bannr.