Cinema Steve added to blogroll
Some of you might have encountered writer and film buff Steve Miller’s 150 Movies to Die before You See, which sure sounds like the sort of thing someone who reads this site should have on his shelf. Well, I am pleased to report that this distinguished reviewer has not just a site, but a whole darn network of sites of reviews and commentary and very tasty imagery well worth your time if you like what goes on here. There’s Terror Titans (horror movies), Watching the Detectives (hard-boiled private eye and spy stuff), Movies to Die Before You See (pretty much self-explanatory), The Universal Horror Archive (lot of horror, including some classic mad science), and Shades of Gray (black and white fantasy art, which should be appealing to those of you who enjoy Lon’s fine black and white work on Tales of Gnosis College). From the last, I can’t resist a swipe of some splendid mad science found there, an illustration by Bruce Timm.
And all this wonderfulness is packaged up for you at Cinema Steve, which now occupies a place of honor over on the blogroll. Do something nice for yourself and surf over to take a look.
Pulp Covers site
By great Yog-Sothoth this site is an awe-inspiring source for pulp covers.
Blogrolled for sure. And yes, there are many covers tagged with “mad science,” so most definitely go and visit.
The “Art of Faustie” added to siteroll
Those of you who’ve been following the interesting…interactions between Howard and Moira as The Apsinthion Protocol posts out might note that I’ve got a bit of a taste for monster sex, and if you do to you would do well to follow the new link to “The Art of Faustie” now added to the EroticMadScience siteroll.
Faustie — no, not a kid sister or a mini-me to your humble blogger, the tasteful choices in nom d’Internet being but coincidence — is an artist and animator who really knows how to get things done when it comes to monster sex. A (ahem) taste, called “Explorer.” (Click for full size.)
One could see this as an object lesson in why when dungeon-delving it is wise to wear pants, but I digress. If this is your cup of goo, by all means head on over, and visit Faustie over at DeviantArt as well. Not only will you find tons of cool art, but you will also find a valuable illustrated document called The Modern Woman’s Strategies for Sex Zombie Survival.
Hey, you never know when that might be useful.
Octo pulp
Borderline as mad science, but definitely pulpy, and definitely a subject we’ve broached here at length at Erotic Mad Science.
This is also evidence on today’s Internet that whatever it is, there’s a site for it. In this case, a site Poulpe Pulps, a site devoted to pulp covers that feature giant octopuses. No, not a joke. And for what it’s worth, I think it’s awesome that we live in a world where one can find a site like this.
On top of that, the site creator put out an appeal to ver readers: where does this illustration come from? And as it happens, ve got an answer.
Nazisploitation Mad Science
Just what it says on the tin, and from a reliable source for such — the postwar men’s magazine.
Found here at a very cool site devoted to pulp covers. I’ll note that the Nazisploitation angle is one that crops up occasionally here.
Also, I’ve done plenty of self-analysis and must confess I still have no idea whether I’ll survive America’s sex war. Perhaps I should have read this magazine. I promise to try.
Uncanny Tales Tube Girl
I guess it will take a long time for the subject to get old: this particular piece of pulp art which appeared on the cover of a short-lived pulp magazine called Uncanny Tales (1939 – 1940) has an unusual appeal, in part because of how explicitly it uses structural elements to make implied nudity possible, but more (for me, anyway) of the “OMG what is happening to me” expression on the face of the model.
Found in this post (with more tube girls) at the very cool blog It’s Dark in the Dark, which has lots of art relevant to thaumatophiles.
Woman in the rings
Much as I encourage you all to peruse the gallery yourselves, I cannot resist posting one more image from the Silverghost pulps:
The gallery labels this “Dr. Ornowski” but unfortunately that doesn’t help me much with provenance. What does make this intriguing is that it’s another example of the long cultural reach of Metropolis: a woman stands in the middle of rings of mad-science energy undergoing…some kind of tranformation. The header illustration to Erotic Mad Science is only a very recent example of this visual trope, though since the one featured here is mid-century pulp art our lovely lady is a bit more modestly clad than Hugo Araújo‘s.
I (and you) should take this illustration as a “write your own story” opportunity. Is it teletransportation? Invisibility? Human transmutation? The opportunities are endless…
Silverghost Mad Science Pulp Gallery added to blogroll
If you look in the links bar off to the right, you’ll find a new link to a gallery of mad science pulp art at Silverghost, which contains some very fine examples of the genre.
Like this, for instance. Mad scientist, pretty girl apparently dissolving in a vat. Could this be an early example of the Apsinthion Protocol meme?
Chasing the provenance on this one was a little tricky. It seems to have been the cover art for a pulp magazine called Fantastic Adventures, which according to Wikipedia was published between 1939 and 1953.
I was able to find a scan of the cover online, but it’s a thumbnail so unfortunately I can’s read the date. However cross-checking the novel The Involuntary Immortals on Rog Phillips’s entry in the Internet Science Fiction Database would seem to place the publication date in 1949. I would welcome additional provenance in the comments.
Write your own story procedure
This image created by British artist James Bingham (1925 -2009) invites us to ask the question “ordinary medical procedure” or “mad science in action?”
You can guess which has my vote. Found here.
Golden Age tube guy
Found another example of the elusive tube guy, so much more rarely seen than his distaff counterpart. Maybe also an example of the slightly less elusive shrinking guy. In any event, the art sure looks mad sciencey.
Found at Golden Age Comic Book Stories, a very cool blog that is Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
