Working on some posters...

... for the Lovecraft-convention here i Sweden in November. Here is a small sample.

Zombie gaming

I have started to play a small free online game: Urban Dead. It's a fun game. The mortality rate is quite high. I have two characters. One started as a Zombie, the other one was a military man for about fifteen minutes, now he's a zombie too...

I leave it to the designer to describe the game:
"The city is dying. A month on from the first reported outbreak, military quarantine units have closed Malton's borders, and are moving in to eliminate the looters, to forcibly evacuate those civilians who still refuse to leave their homes.

The city is dying, and the urban dead are filling its streets.
Urban Dead is a browser-based, grid-mapped multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre."

Blog the Fog

I saw The Fog this morning. Great film. I think there is a remake on the move. This 1980 movie by horror master john Carpenter is a very good "campfire-ghost story" movie. Drowned sailors and a treasure. Jamie Lee Curtis plays one of the poor souls torrmented by the ghosts in a small fishing town.

*edit*
Drawing of one of the sailor ghosts.

J-horror

The wave of horror movies from Japan and re-makes from the States has been a good thing for the horror films.

I saw One missed call the other day. Good movie. It has a more western feel to it (you get to see the monster more and a higher body count). It was interesting to see. I liked the american re-makes of The Ring and The Grudge maybe even more than the japanese originals. They have a bit faster pace. I have not seen the Dark waters re-make yet. I really liked the original. We will see.

One film I hope they won't do an american version of is Uzumaki (Spiral). The slow and very wierd feeling of the movie would be lost. I really want to read the mangabooks.

I made a drawing combining different elements from the j-horror movies. It turned out quite nice. I look forward to doing some more Sadaku drawings. All that hair and wierd fingers...

Haarrrr! Prepare for a broadside, Captain!

Links added

A small step for blogs but a big one for me: I have added links... well, well...

Time machines and apes

A first small webpage for Anders and my new book Herbert och tidsmaskinen is up. More on that later (We have done some very spiffy buttons!). All in Swedish I'm afraid.

Working on posters for MiskatoniCon and some bookillustrations for a Sherlock Holmes articles book and some horror pictures for a magazine.

I saw some in-game movies from the King Kong game. Not bad. I'm not as hopeful about the game but it looks to be a decent action game. It's Kong for crying out loud!