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Personally I think many of these mythos imaginings by children beat most of the adult attempts to render Lovecraftian fauna into a pictorial form. See what you think?

Maybe Night Shade could hire some of these guys for the miscellaneous volume...

Thank you so much for posting this link! What wonderful artwork--simultaneously innocent and disturbing. That smiling shoggoth will haunt my dreams for a long time...and since shoggoths can assume any shape, all such depictions can be considered accurate! All kudos to the kids!

Seriously, their impressionistic paintings are astonishingly effective at conveying the inhuman and otherworldly nature of HPL's creatures, often trumping the more detailed works of adult artists. The pictures of the Great Race of Yith, for example...I had never considered them particularly frightening monsters before, but I may have to change my opinion. Those paintings are scary!

I bet "Grandpa Cthulhu" would have been delighted.

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Maybe Night Shade could hire some of these guys for the miscellaneous volume...

Amen to that. It could only be an improvement.

Absquatch Wrote:
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> Maybe Night Shade could hire some of these guys
> for the miscellaneous volume...
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> Amen to that. It could only be an improvement.

Then again, maybe not.

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Then again, maybe not.

Matter of perspective. Me, when I see childish artwork, I prefer that it actually be by children.

Yes, and by now, you have made this ABUNDANTLY clear innumerable times. If there is anyone on this board who doesn't know your opinion about the NSB covers, it is a piece of news worthy of the front page of any newspaper in the world.

There's an American saying, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". ;-)

At any rate, so long as others continue to broach the subject, I'll be more than happy to exercise my right to express an opinion, just as all the well-informed citizens here can exercise their right to ignore it, rather than making at least equally well worn contrarian comments.

Whatever.

Absquatch Wrote:
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> There's an American saying, "The squeaky wheel
> gets the grease". ;-)
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There's another American saying: "Opinions are like A__holes: everybody has one." : )

Scott

No doubt you know whereof you speak, Scott. :-)

In the words of Buckaroo Banzai:

"No matter where you go, there you are."


- Cathexis

"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!"

Absquatch Wrote:
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> No doubt you know whereof you speak, Scott. :-)

Well, I do live in California...'nuff said.

Scott Connors: Don't forget the rest: "...and most of 'em stink!"

John P. Wrote:
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> Scott Connors: Don't forget the rest: "...and
> most of 'em stink!"

Ach! How could I forget?! Too true, Sir!

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Don't forget the rest: "...and most of 'em stink!"

And don't forget that which stink worse, the opinions or their referents, is itself a matter of opinion.