Friday, January 28, 2011

Monster memories 2011

Just turned in this wraparound cover for the upcoming 2011 edition of Monster Memories. Some of the characters on the back cover are from the vintage horror comics filling the shelves on Sam Scare's newsstand -- originally drawn by Jack Cole, Bob Powell and George Evans. The "cycloptopus" and the snakey green guy came from my own fevered mind.

The newsstand is stocked with this past year's issues of Scary Monsters and other mags from Druktenis Publishing. I filled it out with some comics and books that featured my art --- and then added dozens of vintage comics, pulps, paperbacks and collectibles. The characters and newsstand were painted with acrylics on bristol board. That image was scanned and then touched up with Photoshop. All the magazines, comics and other items on the shelves were added in Photoshop as well. There were a LOT of layers!

Click on the image below for a much larger version. Have fun checking out all the "goodies" on the shelves!

8 comments:

Martin Powell said...

I love this cover!

Martin Powell said...

Seeing our Bela Lugosi comic there, and you're awesome collection of Big Little Books made me smile.

Joe Jusko said...

What Martin said! I LOVE this cover!!!!

Martin Powell said...

This is my version of what Heaven should look like!

Debbie Painter said...

What is that "Ghost" cover? Is that one you did also, Terry? Or is it Ghost Stories Magazine?

Terry Beatty said...

Fiction House's GHOST Comics -- cover by Maurice Whitman. More here: http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2010/07/fiction-houses-ghost-comics-and-dr-drew.html

windupguy said...

Very cool! There3 are more than a few of my own favorites on the shelves. Nice work! Photoshop makes some things soooo much easier, don't it?

Lew Stringer said...

Fantastic cover! I've just ordered this copy this morning. I discovered your blog as I was searching for Monster Memories 2011. Keep up the good work.