Bonus art: Gigi reads

It was with considerable pleasure that I recently received a sketch connected with John Villalino‘s ongoing Pretty Vacant comics series, a premium for my having recently backed the project on Kickstarter. It’s series protagonist Gigi Gutierrez. She seems to spend most of her time trying to outrun or outwit a cabal of evildoers who are determined to turn her into some sort of a manikin, but I thought it might be nice if she were given an opportunity to relax for a change with a volume of some the greatest poetry written in Italian.

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Click for full size; used here by the kind permission of the creators. For you Romance language buffs out there, the originals of the lines Gigi is reading are “Ma tu per certo,/Giovinetta immortal, conosci il tutto…” which are from Giacomo Leopardi’s Canto XXIII: Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia.. If you’re curious about the whole, you can find the original Italian text here, a recitation by Arnoldo Foà here, and a free English translation by A.S. Kline here.

Squick or Squee 2014: Terror Tales Tube Girls

Capping it off for Squick or Squee week this year, Netherlands artist Frans Mensink does his own up-to-date take on a classic pulp cover.

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If you click through the image you can download the full-size, high-resolution version of the image, Be warned, though — it’s big — about 24MB.

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Terror Tales Tube Girl Experiment commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Frans Mensink is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Frans’s inspiration is the cover for Terror Tales, November-December 1938.

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Pulp done right! And that’s it for this year…happy Halloween, everybody!

Squick or Squee 2014: Tube Girl Mermaid Conversion

Dark Vanessa, long a contributor to Erotic Mad Science, gives her version of a classic pulp cover of a mad scientist turning women into mermaids in tubes.

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You can download a high-resolution version of the image by clicking on it.

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Tube Girl Mermaid Transformation commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Dark Vanessa is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Dark Vanessa here takes her inspiration from a cover of Terror Tales, May 1940.

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I’ve only found this in fairly low resolution, sadly.

Update: Foolish me, I did have a higher-resolution version, tucked away in a post over at my dedicated home for squicky imagery. Here it is:

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Squick or Squee 2014 bonus: Baron Samedi

In addition to her commissioned images, KristinF volunteered an additional image for this year’s Squick or Squee parade, which we might perhaps see as another culture’s mad science at work. If you make smutty double-entendres about Baron Samedi’s erection in the comments, I’m going to have to pretend not to know you.

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Samedi’s Strumpet is presented by the kind permission of the artist.

Squick or Squee 2014: Faraday Faux-Pas

Busy 3D artist KristinF has long been a contributor to Erotic Mad Science, and she was commissioned to do two pieces for this year’s Squick or Squee parade. The first involves our longtime mad science character Dr. Urulchuk and an assistant who appears not to have been as careful with electricity as she should have been.

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Squick or Squee 2014: Melt Lab Rescue

Today we continue with Niceman’s illustration of work in the people-melting laboratory, as a partly melted assistant drops from a vent to save the day. She makes good use of her new form, though one wonders what her life will be like from this point forward.

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Metrobay’s Pleasure Island

Dr. Robo of Metrobay Comix has been a longtime friend of our enterprise over here, and work done by him and his group has often graced these pages in the past — see examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Well, they never rest over there at Metrobay, and I’ve recently had the enjoyable experience of reading what is possibly their most complex sequence of erotic mad science episodes yet: Pleasure Island.

The Metrobay creators are taking off from a classic of mad science in this 300+ page story, and in it they’ll be testing the limits of individual plasticity in ways that would have made old H.G. Wells blow a fuse. Our story begins with a Metrobay woman accepting an invitation for a cruise to Pleasure Island. (In the fictional world of Metrobay, where mind-control technologies are ubiquitous, it’s not an invitation she’s metaphysically free to decline.) Meanwhile, aboard the yacht maintained by scientific genius “Dr. Brust,” various transformations are being performed on the lovelies of Metrobay, either at the behest of her various obscenely wealthy patrons or just to gratify her own unusual and aggressive desires.

And boy howdy does our (anything-but-) good doctor manage to come up with some amazing tranformations. I could scarcely do justice to them all in single post, but perhaps I tantalize people who enjoy the sort of thing that has gone on in the Tales of Gnosis College. Dear readers, can you perhaps guess at what is going to happen next here? (Hint: remember how Jireen came into being?

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Or consider what’s happening here. This one hasn’t appeared in the Tales (yet), but it should be visual fuel for some interesting speculation as to what’s going to happen to our strapped-down heroine.

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Are the events on the cruise to Pleasure Island a bit scary, perhaps? Well, don’t try to run away. You’ll only make it harder on yourself.

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And there’s a lot more, so if this is the sort of thing that appeals, by all means head over to Metrobay Comix and take out a subscription. It’s will be a cruise to pleasure, for sure.

Niceman’s We Must Boost the Signal Art

Longtime readers of this site should have fond memories of talented CG artist Niceman, who has done so much outstanding work for this site in the past. I recently had the pleasure of turning him loose with the right to pick his own commission from the script of We Must Boost the Signal, and he fastened on a particular scene which takes place at around Page 13. Faith Quek, a hard-working single professional woman comes home to takes a shower to relax after a rough day at the office. The good news for Faith is that it will be her last hard day at the office.

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The not-so-good news can be seen when we draw back our focus. Faith’s shower is being invaded by a mysterious and, as it will turn out, rather hungry sentient slime…

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What will poor Faith’s ultimate fate be? Stay tuned.

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