Tag Archives: pulp art

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Seventeen

Ever experienced something that you thought was had to be a nightmare, but was in fact real?

Aloysius questions the liquid Tricia.

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Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Seventeen written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

A girl in a beaker on one’s desk is an old pulp trope. A more literal example of it:

Image found at one of my favorite tumblrs, Fifi-Feeling is First.

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.

Holiday weekend bonus 2: Another promotional poster

A slightly more risqué mad science-themed promotional poster, also now in use at various corners of the Internet.</p>

A naked girl held by mechanical grippers, about to be dropped in glowing goo

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Tales of Gnosis College Promotional Poster 3 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

The poster has a pretty classic inspiration:

At the time I first discovered this poster I was mourning the fact that the underlying Paul Fairman story the cover was illustrating was unavailable. But it wasn’t long before that great law of the Internet age — that if anyone ever loved it then everyone can get it — kicked in, and an edition was published. Based on the cover, I was so hoping that the woman depicted on the cover might be a Kitty Carroll, but got instead a weird mix of hard-boiled detective story with unpersuasive science fiction. Disappointing…

Tales of Gnosis College promotional poster

Now that we have nearly two volumes of the Tales of Gnosis College published and another one well underway (starting in March!), I’ve decided it’s time to start promoting a little more aggressively, and what better way to do that than to come up with some new promo art. Lon has obliged by generating a promotional poster that’s very much in the great pulp traditions. Coming soon to a comix index near you!

A lovely (clothed this time) in peril from a mad scientist's experiment

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Tales of Gnosis College Promotional Poster written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Cinema Steve added to blogroll

Some of you might have encountered writer and film buff Steve Miller’s 150 Movies to Die before You See, which sure sounds like the sort of thing someone who reads this site should have on his shelf.  Well, I am pleased to report that this distinguished reviewer has not just a site, but a whole darn network of sites of reviews and commentary and very tasty imagery well worth your time if you like what goes on here.  There’s Terror Titans (horror movies), Watching the Detectives (hard-boiled private eye and spy stuff), Movies to Die Before You See (pretty much self-explanatory), The Universal Horror Archive (lot of horror, including some classic mad science), and Shades of Gray (black and white fantasy art, which should be appealing to those of you who enjoy Lon’s fine black and white work on Tales of Gnosis College).   From the last, I can’t resist a swipe of some splendid mad science found there, an illustration by Bruce Timm.

And all this wonderfulness is packaged up for you at Cinema Steve, which now occupies a place of honor over on the blogroll.  Do something nice for yourself and surf over to take a look.