David Lee Ingersoll is my favourite artist I’ve worked with on The Black Seal and Worlds of Cthulhu.

Why? The passion that can be found in every image. Every image is carefully planned, executed and detailed. What’s more I’ve found David can read my mind from several thousand miles away – he’s got an intuitive understanding of the horror/weird genre and what makes it work, and he brings that to the job without you having to ask for it. Look at these pictures and there is a normalness pitted against strangeness in each picture.

David is a professional artist in the truest sense. If he accepts the job, he will deliver 110% of what you requested, on time, with imagination. On the rare occasion things have had to be modified, they are, and always for the better.

If you are thinking of hiring David, stop thinking and just do it. You’ve found the right artist for the job.

Adam Crossingham, editor – The Black Seal, and Worlds of Cthulhu”

From The Black Seal #3 this is a classic alien autopsy scene…

From The Black Seal #3, the author loved it, I love it. Baboons are nasty little buggers, and DLI’s got them.

This is me. DLI did portraits of all the Black Seal contributors. I love my surgery scars and wish my real ones were as cool and Frankensteiny.

From the Black Seal #1. One of DLI’s first and still one of the best. He’s got a thing for things in jars…

From Worlds of Cthulhu #3. You’d look like this if someone had cut your heart and chucked you down a pit.

From Worlds of Cthulhu #3. The Golden Scorpion. DLI can do simple very well as well. Sometimes I think he should stick to simple, but then I remember the details in his other stuff.

From the Black Seal #3. I call this “Hunter Hunted”. Shoggoths should be hard to kill, and this one is.

From the Black Seal #4. Why I had never asked DLI to do a cover before I will never know. I think I might ask him to do all the covers from now on.

From Worlds of Cthulhu #3. Nyarlathotep as an Aztec god. The eyes make this image for me.

From a forthcoming issue of the Black Seal and a T-shirt. This is what I call body art. DLI has tcho-tcho style.

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And just for completion’s sake –
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Y’golonac first appeared in the Ramsey Campbell short story Cold Print back in the late sixties. Y’golonac has made an appearance in a couple of the scenarios I’ve illustrated, one in The Black Seal, one in a forthcoming issue of Worlds of Cthulhu. What pleases me most about this illustration was the weight and mass I think I managed to give ol’ Nibblehands. I drew people as stick figures most of the time when I was a kid. When I was doing Misspent Youths the characters still had a pipecleaner skinniness to them. I put extra effort into giving this guy bulk.

This sketch was an attempt to create a mascot for the Sentient 39 illustrations series. It didn’t need a mascot but mascots are fun. And evil and disgusting. This one didn’t have quite the mix that I wanted.

I’m taking February off from posting.

I still love you.

I’ll be back with the finished Weirdsmith image on March 1st.

While we wait for me to find the finished Weirdsmith piece let me update you on current projects –

Oz Squad – In progress. Really. 48 pages of layouts. 11 pages of completed pencils.

Oziana 2006 – At the printer presumably. I contributed illustrations to a story and a poem.

Baum Bugle – In progress. I’ve been asked to rewrite the Oz Comics webpage for print in the next issue. I need to flesh out the plot summaries of the different comics and get some good scans of the covers. The trickiest series looks like it will be Peter Pan and the Warlords of Oz. I’ve found very little about it online either as commentary or as issues for sale.

The Black Seal – In progress. Both the 4th issue and Viet Nam number are mostly done. I’m waiting on some specs to finish the illustrations for the 4th issue and I’ve still got a short comic to do for the Viet Nam number.

Worlds of Cthulhu – Finished illustrations for an article in the 5th issue.

Mansions of Madness – Finished illustrations for a reissue of this Chaosium book. To be published sometime this year I believe.

The Spiraling Worm – In progress. I’m providing the cover illustration for this collection of Mythos fiction by David Conyers and John Sunseri. My layouts have been approved and I’m in the process of painting/coloring it.

There’s other things here and there. Possibly a large illustration job for Labor of Love Creative. No deadline on that yet.

No post today and maybe not tomorrow. I want the next one to be the finished version of the Weirdsmith but I’ve run into a snag in getting it off my backup.

Glenn tagged me with this meme last year. I didn’t respond right away and the more time passed the harder it got to respond. Now Schuyler has tagged me. It looks like the rules have changed a bit in the months since Glenn first sent it my way.

Here are the details: Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 weird things as well as clearly state this rule. After you state your 6 weird things, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you’re tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog for information as to what it means. So here goes.

1. I take great comfort in the idea that the universe is bigger than I can imagine, that the Earth is a tiny little speck in the midst of it and that a thousand years after I’m dead no one will remember or care that I was ever here.

2. I see things. Dinosaurs walking down the street. Squid climbing trees. The skeleton beneath your skin and the writhing demon in your skull. These aren’t hallucinations. I don’t mistake them for reality.

3. I used to do dangerous things when no one was looking. Explore abandoned buildings. Walk off into the woods at night. Walk through bad neighborhoods. I’ve never needed peer pressure to be stupid. I’m really more likely to be stupid by myself. I do it less now mostly because I just don’t have as much time as I used to.

4. I have a guardian angel. It’s got multiple wings and claws and teeth and just because it love me that doesn’t mean it’s going to make my life easy. Yes, I’m an agnostic. No, I don’t see any contradiction.

5. When I was a kid I noticed that old people had a lot of wrinkles. Old people who frowned a lot and didn’t seem to be enjoying themselves had less attractive wrinkles than those who smiled and had a good time with life. So I’ve spent a lot of time smiling and being cheerful for vanity’s sake. I want good looking wrinkles.

6. It usually takes me forever to decide someone is a friend. Well, not forever, years. I used have a hard time talking to strangers or new acquaintances because I figured they wouldn’t be around long enough to be friends so it didn’t make sense to spend the time with them. Not that I didn’t enjoy myself when some stranger talked to me. It always amazed me that my dad would strike up a conversation with people standing next to him in line.

I’ve tagged Leif, Jenn, Kip, Mad Dog, Nick (though I couldn’t seem to add a comment to any of his entries so he’ll have to find out about it here) and, because maybe having two people pointing at her will make her jump – Ninnah.