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You may or may not be surprised to find out that I collect a little art here and there. There are a couple of artists that I’m interested in and I buy prints mostly, but every once in a while I splurge and buy a piece of original art. What with the economy like it is, we monsters with large savings accounts and/or diabolical ways of procuring our day-to-day needs can afford some art here and there. And I like it. Most of the time original art is way better than prints or photos.
Knowing that, you’ll probably understand that I was pretty excited when a piece by one of my favorite artists, Jaime Zollars, was being auctioned recently to benefit 826LA, “a Los Angeles-based nonprofit writing and tutoring center fronted by a fully-functioning convenience store for time travelers.” When the bidding started, I was ruthless and succeeded in intimidating the other bidders with my persistent bidding, and also my winged monkey army.
I don’t know what it is about Zollars’ art. She has this way of portraying fairy-tale-like heroines in interesting ways. I have a handful of her prints and a few original pieces in my collection. Gallery Nucleus has just started selling prints of one of my favorite pieces by her, Garden Secret. The art on auction was part of a larger group of art by children’s book illustrators inspired by the book Oh No (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Dan Santat. Each auction also included an official police report filled out by the artist, a copy of the book Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) signed by Mac Barnett and Dan Santat, and an exclusive limited edition print.
After winning the auction, I spent what seemed like months on pins and needles waiting for my delivery. I just had to share with everyone when it finally came.
The Package
Woo Hoo!
A Copy of the Book
Awesome Story and Art
Bonus 826LA Brochure and Letter of Thanks
The limited edition print is really awesome.
The official police report.
And finally, the Zollars piece!
You can see a close-up of the piece here. The book, Oh No, is available here
This brings to mind one of the first scenes in the movie JURASSIC PARK. The one where the person encounters the little dinosaurs. They look all cute and colorful and fascinating, until they attack. Then, before you know it, POW: you’ve got a dozen of them on you. With their fuzzy paws and bellies, their x-ray camera noses, and their little wiggly butts. Yeah you don’t have me fooled, Fujitsu! WHEN THIS THING BLINKS, IT DOESN’T CLOSE ITS EYE, DOES IT?
Enjoy the first horrifying vocalizations of your future, humankind, and don’t kid yourself that they’re not coming. The robot overlords will be here sooner or later. You and your loved ones should be especially suspicious of cockroaches, cats, dogs, and monkeys, because as we speak, your mad scientists are working to interface their brains to computers. And I say “your,” because any self-respecting creeper of attics and basements would never be found wrist-deep in another living creature’s brains with some wires or chips or whatever, trying to make them to do abominable things for unnameable shadow government agencies. It’s only a matter of time before you turn around one day to find your beloved Chawnsey, Mitsy, or Prudence has a new cold glint in her eye and is walking a bit mechanically. Weeks later you will be obeying her commands and won’t remember what life was like before the machine uprising. What was I talking about? Oh yeah.
I don’t know about you, but if I was faced with a robot overlord yowling at me like this, I would do anything – ANYTHING – to get it to shut the hell up. As long as it didn’t involve work.
“My, Grandma! What a big mechanized orifice you have!”
Today I’m breaking three general rules about my Pinup of the Week posts. They are:
- Must be published before 1940.
- Should be a shudder pulp.
- Should be co-ed.
But look at this amazing cover from the 1950 Fantasy Library book, The Human Bat v The Robot Gangster by Edward R. Home-Gall. For the curious, the R. stands for Reginald. Best pen name evar.
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