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After I saw the movie Sky Captain In the World of Tomorrow, which by the way is an incredible eyegoggling spectacle of Sci-Fi Robots, spaceships, rayguns and monsters, (I think there were monsters...it's been awhile ...... are Robots monsters? ) so, after seeing the movie (in a movie theatre!!!) with my son, we came home and started to build stuff with lego. I started to make many robots. Here is one of them. Powered of course with Atomic.... Love.

Spooky Chuckry

CHRIS CHUCKRY

All images copyright Chris Chuckry

CHRIS CHUCKRY says Happy Halloween and so do I. Chris is an illustrator and comic book colorist who has worked for all the major comic book companies. He lives here in Winnipeg. I love his little illustrations and I wanted to share a few here with you. You can see more of his work on a few of his web sites. Start here at Spookeasy !

Below is a set of stickers Chris made from some of his work. He probably still has some so I bet if you asked him, he would be happy to send you some.

3D Smash

All right kiddies. Free Inside! 

.....or rather Free inside your mind. Because today in the Nakfactorium we have some 3D eye moggling to do. No special glasses are required. Just simple cross-eyed concentration. It's easy!

Here's how to do it.

First, click on or beside the image to get a larger view.

If you are familiar with these, just simply cross your eyes until you see the 3D action. 

If not so simple, then...  

2. Place your finger between the two images.

3. Slowly move your finger towards you while keeping a focus on your finger. A third image will slowly grow between the two images.

4. When this middle image is the same size as the other two, stop moving your finger towards you. 

5. Keep your focus on your finger. Do not change your focus to the image behind it.

6. Move your hand quickly away (don't change your focus ) and that middle image will be three-dimensionally clear!

  

Who are you Green Monster?

Here are some fun monster stickers that were wrapped around some candy. I think it was a block of taffy on a stick. The outer packages were hard to open without them ripping to shreds and the stickers inside mostly stuck to the candy. I don't remember the name of the candy nor could I find anything out about them except that the company Dos en Uno is a Chilean candy manufacturer owned by the Argentinian food producer Arcor.

Alter Ego Godzilla

Alter Ego Godzilla - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches

Leading up to my Godzilla weekend, during, and after it, I was working on this painting. There is definitely something different about it. All in it's colors and design and it's play. I'm a play-full guy, but not so much in my paintings. And I think I can contribute this to the spirit and energy held during G-Fest, the G-Fan magazine coordinated annual Godzilla convention held just outside Chicago. I had wished I was there, but since I could not go, I was there in spirit while I painted Godzilla. And I believe that I was channelling the fans at the convention. So this painting in a way, is more of a conglomerate of Godzilla fun. I'm in there too somewhere.

Here is a super fun cartoon that I wanted to share by the master cartoonist Gary Larson.

Yesterday Monster Today Artwork

MADE IN TAIWAN - This is all I know about these crazy puffy monster stickers. They are not that luminous and neither was my search in providing any more information. No company name. Obviously these were knocked-off in hopes of cashing in on some monster trend. But aren't monsters always trendy? It's also oversees companies that are trying to figure out what we western kids are really into.  I acquired an almost full box of these many years ago. I imagine they are from the early 70's. They were loose in the box but it looks like they were hand cut from a larger sheet.

In my search I found a more recent printing and package of these from 1989, where they are all on one sheet. Also I found someone who has a collection of small plastic masks of which some of them are these figures, like  I-Oneman and Mechelus. Who are these creatures? Are these 'new' creatures thought up by the artist who also had to redraw the classic monsters for the sticker company in Taiwan that they were working for of which later the designs became classics unto their own. I love all the designs, except for the Wicked Witch, but I suppose it's good to have at least one female monster in the bunch. Men are all the real monsters. I would love to see some of these designs blown up and printed on t-shirts, especially the Mummy, Mechelus and the slightly transy Frankenstein. They are very naive drawings, but as the way that contemporary illustrators are working these days, these drawings are right in the times. Another question, What's with the flowery, fruity graphic on the side front of the box?

All the above images are my own scans. Below are other images I found on the web.

Rodan Attacks Godzilla Weekend

Godzilla - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 in.

Yes, all weekend right now is my Godzilla Weekend. Movies, Magazines and Painting all weekend long. At the moment there is a Godzilla convention called G-Fest held in Rosemont, Illinois, U.S.A., just outside of Chicago. I was hoping to get out there this year,... but no.

The convention (this is it's 19th year!) is organized by G-Fan magazine and it's publisher J.D. Lees.  He so kindly offered to take a couple of my paintings to the convention for display, so I hope many people are seeing them right now! Here they are now!

These are my first and second Godzilla paintings. This week I've already finished a third and this weekend I'l be finishing my fourth. They are all a bit different from one another, and I contribute this to my channelling efforts of all fans of Godzilla painting, especially right now happening on this weekend. There is a full page color reproduction of my Godzilla painting (above) published in G-Fan Magazine No.99.

Rodan Attack - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 in.

Here I am right now sporting my new Godzilla t-shirt that my son bought for me last week at Value Village. What a terrific find!....and just in time for my Godzilla Weekend 2012.

THIS MONSTER

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This Monster was a cut and paste, real flesh, real puss, xeroxed and fang-stapled fanzine out of and in of Winnipeg with a finger in the world infestation of everything wicked, sick, garish but with a twist of punk rock Kool-aid head smashing.

Pit and Pendulumed together by the living dead legend Marxavier Youle throughout the years of his demise from 1984 to 1986. It started in the cauldrons of a Janitors lair with the free and over excessive use of the copy machine. Hail the freedom to suppress...um... freedom of the press. A truly representative mind and pulse of the time. Many contributors with lots of art, rants, rags, ritings, poetry, lists, stories, comics, ads....and loads of fun!

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Issues 1 - 10 were 8.5 x 11 inch sheets folded in half and stapled in one corner allowing for full page views. Issues 11 & 12 were 8.5 x 14 sheets folded and stapled in one corner.

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Below, inside issue Number Seven, showing a sampling of the rancid speak spread of the creator.