The second in the series by KristinF.
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Category Archives: Thaumatophilia
Thoroughly Modern Prometheus I
Prolific and talented CG artist KristnF has been the recipient of many commissions from Erotic Mad Science (examples here, here, here, and here), and it is with considerable delight that I have the opportunity to post out a four-panel sequence she has recently done called “Thoroughly Modern Prometheus.” Here is the first:
Click for full size; presented here with the kind permission of the artist.
Tumblin’ through the tumbling tumblrverse
The social networking site Tumblr contains a great wealth of imagery of interest to thaumatophiles, more than I could ever do justice to with the time and space I have here. It’s reblog feature makes it very easy to share content (while providing a friendly salute to fellow sharers), so I’ve decided to take the step and open a second Erotic Mad Science blog over there.
Click on the image or here for access to the tumblr. Expect lots of weird imagery of the sort that only the genius of the Internet can provide. Also, since the tumblrverse is something of a world unto itself, you’ll see Erotic Mad Science bespoke art, excerpts from the They Want Our Women, all placed there in hopes of finding a new and appreciative audience.
Check it out! Tell your friends! (And tumblr followers would be nice, too!)
Update: Forgot to add when I wrote this post that there’s a little Bespoke Animation Bonus there not available at Erotic Mad Science. Take a look and scroll down…
Waiting for transformation
S.J. Perelman (1904-1979), who as a humorist might be the one American who reasonably bears comparison to P.G. Wodehouse, was doing Erotic Mad Science way back when. Or more specifically, in a story “Captain Future, Block that Kick!,” published in the New Yorker in 1940, he begins thus.
I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.
Waving something like that in front of Dr. Faustus is like waving a red flag in front of a bull or money in front of a United States Senator — vigorous action will result. In my case, the vigorous action is more Bespoke Art, in the form of a three-illustration sequence from Russkere, whose work has appeared here before (if not recently enough) in the form of a mad science chase-and-capture sequence some of you might recall.
Here is is his sequence. A girl in a diaphanous veil, a mad scientist, and a laboratory.
Zapped with mad science energies!
Resulting in a beautiful chimpanzee.
Waiting for Transformation Sequence commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and executed by Russkere is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Long live mad science!
Satan’s laboratory
Apparently Satan had a lot going on, mad science-wise, as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Some ambitious artist even set him up with a laboratory in the 1870s.
Found at Drake’s Way, unsurprisingly.
Possible earliest cinematic tube girls
They make their appearance all the way back in 1907.
The source is Wikipedia, and ultimately a ten-minute silent short called Satán se divierte (Satan amuses himself) made by the cinematic pioneer Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929). The film is a showcase for early special optical effects. There isn’t much of a plot there — just Satan, apparently bored, fooling around in hell that involve playing around with a couple of scantily-clad (by 1907 standards) actresses, including making tube girls. Some fine person has uploaded the short to YouTube, so I can embed it here.
The tube girls show up at about the five-minute mark. There are some other mad-sciency things going on if you wish to watch it.
Drake’s Way added to blogroll
It is with great pleasure that I can announce the addition of the tumblr Drake’s Way to the Erotic Mad Science blogroll. Drake Caperton is running a truly eclectic and oft-updated collection of stunning vintage nudes, erotic art, pulp covers, cartoons, and wondrous-weird cultural ephemera. At least one of the cartoons fits into themes explored before here, and I offer it as a taste of what Drake’s Way has to offer.
Found here, specifically. Dr. Faustus sez, check the whole thing out.
Early tube girl variant
Very early (1933 — note the National Recovery Administration eagle ensign on the cover) variant on the tube-girl meme. Neither mad science nor meant literally in this context (I think) but still possibly something that inspired the imaginations of coming pulp artists.
Found at Drake’s Way.
Uncensored They Want Our Women
It is a privilege and a pleasure to announce that Lon Ryden, the devoted illustrator of the Tales of Gnosis College, is now posting out uncensored versions of his comic alien-abduction bondage series They Want Our Women.
See unlicensed mad science in action! See captive lovelies probed in ways that offend both God and Nature! See stuff considered way to spicy for DeviantArt! And it’s all at a dedicated new site which you can reach directly from this link. Also, in honor of the momentous occasion, I’ve put up a permanent redirect page for the art right here at Erotic Mad Science.
Lon expects to be putting up a new image every few days or so, so do head over and enjoy the spectacle. And note that if you like what he’s doing, you can get original, physical, hold-in-your-hands, frame-and-put-on-your-wall art from Lon here (hint, hint).
And if you are a comely female, watch out for those Little Green Bastards!
A tumblr for real thaumatophiles
As an aficionado of a certain kind of erotic imagery I can (and have) spent time browsing through the vast space of image sites known as tumblrs until I burn out monitor pixels and make my eyeballs bleed. My persistence has been rewarded with at least one tumblr I most definitely recommend to any thaumatophile, to wit Fifi-Feeling Is First. Intrepid proprietress Fifi has put a <em>ton</em> of relevant imagery up there, so I rate it a definite must look-in if you like the content on this site.
Two appetizers to get the juices flowing: a most unusual take on the tube girl meme.
And quite recently, an appealingly weird sex machine illustration.
(Click through for a lot larger.) And naturally there is much more, neatly arranged under a great variety of tags (“Bride of Octopus” being one of my personal favorites.)
But it’s not just imagery that makes this tumblr so appealing. Fifi has a way of integrating the imagery into a narrative of topoi, a palace of imagination analogous to the palace of memory used by classical rhetoricians . It’s something that ought to be read first hand but, okay, one hint: another popular tag is “miskatonic.”
So Faustus says, check it out.