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Here’s a picture whose myriad details I’ve wanted to scrutinise for many years. Lieven Cruyl was the draughtsman and Coenraet Decker the etcher while the picture itself appears as an illustration in Athanasius Kircher’s (deep breath) Turris Babel, Sive Archontologia Qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque [...]

From a Void City to what might be a Vulture City, this is an illustration I produced last September for San Jose psych rock band Vultures Await. I would have mentioned it sooner but the following months were very busy and I was also waiting for the band to make the artwork public. Stylistically, this [...]

This new piece of work, a cover illustration for metal band Melechesh, was still in progress only a month ago but the album in question, The Epigenesis, has been announced so I can post it here. This follows a design I produced for an earlier Melechesh album, Emissaries, in 2006, both of which refer to [...]

Cthulhu Calendar (personal work). The Bookman Histories by Lavie Tidhar (A cover for Angry Robot). Aether Cola (soft drink can design for Cybercandy). Cthulhoid (personal work). Cthulhu God (personal work). The Courts of the Feyre by Mike Shevdon (A series of covers for Angry Robot). Somnium by Steve Moore (Cover design for Strange Attractor). Fountain [...]

Two new pieces of work appear this month. The cover for the Emissaries CD by Melechesh was something I did earlier this year but the album release was delayed. Melechesh are Sumerian Thrashing Black Metal maestros and their website is here. And finally this month, Jon Farmer’s book, Sieg Heil Iconographers, arrives from the printers. [...]