A little late in the season for Krampus, but I love this illustration by Drew Millward.
Pencil version of a recent illustration I did.
In browsing the ‘everything’ stream on the new Artists on Tumblr tag today to find new artists to feature, I noticed that not many posts are being tagged with this yet (it did not take me long to browse through several days worth of posting) …………I know that a LOT of my followers, and the…
Thanks for the tip! I’ma get taggin’.
Why replace this original, beautiful, and scary artwork with THIS:
oh god i remember the Brett Helquist replacement euuughhhh
Brett is good, but he’s no Stephen Gammell
yeah, there’s nothing wrong with the guy’s art, it’s not the same level of you’re-going-to-see-this-when-you-close-your-eyes-at-night kind of shit your pants
I always got the feeling the new illustrations were intended to reduce the level of panty-soiling terror after a long and storied history of sobbing, frightened children hiding their books in the closet where they couldn’t see them, and then subsequently being afraid of the closet (which is what I did, anyway).
Of course we all look back on it fondly now, but on the offset it doesn’t seem to be a good way to sell books to children.
I feel like the only reason anyone was buying these books was to see the terrifying illustrations. I mean, does anyone actually remember the plot of the story “Harold”?
Stephen Gammell, The Wendigo. From Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Related: this wonderfully creepy story by Norman Partridge about a Wendigo-like creature. The Hollow Man.






