Faustus Crow experiments

Faustus Crow, whom I recently interviewed for the Squick-or-Squee Podcast, is now doing experiments with occult soundscapes and visuals. Here is a free example you can find on YouTube: “Yellow Submarine Psychonaut Vepara. A Dark Tale from ‘The Haunted Art Studio Of Faustus Crow.'” (Note: I believe the soundscape here is most effective if listened-to on headphones).

Comments Faustus Crow:

The Forty-Second Succubus is Vepara, or Vephara. She is a Duchess Great and Strong and appears like a U-Boat Captain piloting a Yellow Submarine, or as a Mermaid.

Her Psychonaut office is to govern the Astral Waters, sinking the designs of War Profiteers, etc., thereon. And at the request of her Conjuring Surrealist Artist, she can cause the Astral sea of the Collective Dream to be right stormy, which initiates a global Serf rebellion against the Feudal Technocracy.

Also she makes the NWO Economic Reset gangsters of the neo-aristocratic Top-Down economy, meet Madame Guillotine. She governs over 29 Legions of Submariner Succubi, and her Seal is to be meditated upon prior to conjuring her into a Lucid Dream. – Surrealist Goetia – S. L. MacGregore Freemason Matherson (misquoted)

I can’t improve on that! In any event, most of these new works are available only to patrons, so if you like what you see and hear you should head on over to his Patreon and show him some love. You can also buy his books at his Amazon store.

Bait now has a really permanent home

I am pleased to announce that my (very) graphic novella Bait has a permanent Internet Archive home:

Here is the link to the archive page, where you can download the whole graphic novel and all of its pendant art in either CBZ (a comic book archive format similar to ZIP) or as a single big PDF document. You can also read the comic in a nifty screen reader the archive provides (also embedded in small size above). The archive has also auto-converted my uploads into a variety of other formats. The completeness or reliability of these versions is a bit uncertain, but I would welcome reports from anyone who wants to look at them.

At 113 pages and with no fewer than five contributing artists, the assembly and uploading of this version of the comic was an unusual challenge, and it pleases me no end that this particular phase of the Bait project is now complete!

Faustus Crow illustration: The Daughters of Leos

The self-sacrifice of three noble young women saves Athens from plague and famine.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please keep in mind that any moral rights the artist has remain intact under this license.

This is Faustus Crow’s vision of the sacrifice of the daughters of Leos, a piece of Greek mythology they don’t normally teach you about in school, but one cited by the minister in Bait to illustrate the heroism of the three sacrificed women in that story: see the re-numbered Page 83 of Bait. Erosarts’s re-imagining of that scene is straightforward. Here Faustus Crow’s is figurative (consider, for example, the allegorical figures of plague and famine the background from which Athens is to be delivered by the daughters’ sacrifice). You can spend a lot of time hunting for other occult detail here, and I encourage you to do so.

If you’re interested in Faustus Crow’s work you can find a blog by him here (“Faustus Crow: Shaman Chaos Magick”) and a book website here (“Goetia Girls”). If you want a list of his books you can buy there is one at Goodreads or you can just search for his name at Amazon. You can also, as I do, support his extraordinary art on Patreon.

Occult ingestion

A tender morsel is ingested by the tentacle monster

We present another pendant illustration to Bait, this our second illustration by Faustus Crow. There’s a great depth of occult symbolism in this illustration, but rather than pedantically spell it out, I invite you to gaze on it for a while and interpret.

If you’re interested in Faustus Crow’s work you can find a blog by him here (“Faustus Crow: Shaman Chaos Magick”) and a book website here (“Goetia Girls”). If you want a list of his books you can buy there is one at Goodreads or you can just search for his name at Amazon. You can also, as I do, support his extraordinary art on Patreon.

The illustration above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please keep in mind that any moral rights the artist has remain intact under this license.

The Sacrifice of Gigi

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please keep in mind that any moral rights the artist has remain intact under this license.

This image is a darker realization of a scene in one of the Fabuale Atroces Fausti, “In the Kitchen with Dolcetta,” which is published in both English and Spanish editions here at Erotic Mad Science. The artist is Faustus Crow, a newcomer to this site but an old hand at the creation of fantasy, sci-fi, and occult art, with a record of publication going at least as far back as the 1980s. In addition to being an exceptionally skillful artist, Faustus Crow is also an expert on the occult, and you can see elements of that expertise in this illustration: Dolcetta holds in her left hand a fork which refers symbolically to the learned demon Furcas, and in her right a carving knife the handle of which is modeled on an Aztec sacrificial knife. (Faustus Crow makes additional pop-surrealist references to Furcas here and here.

If you’re interested in Faustus Crow’s work (and you should be!) you can find a blog by him here (“Faustus Crow: Shaman Chaos Magick”) and a book website here (“Goetia Girls”). If you want a list of his books you can buy there is one at Goodreads or you can just search for his name at Amazon. You can also, as I do, support his extraordinary art on Patreon.