This is the base art for my version of Quake, a monster invented by one of the other artists who posts on the Kaijuphile galleries.

Poor Guilala. He only starred in one movie – The X from Outer Space yet he’s been listed on more than one list of goofy looking monsters. This is my unfinished attempt at a more “serious” looking version of the fellow.

This was intended for my gallery at Kaijuphile.com but for whatever reason I never finished it. It’s a redesign of Varan the Unbelievable.

This is a scan of the base art for one of my favorite pieces of giant monster art.

This is a scan of the original art for my color King Seesar portrait.

This is a scan of the original pencils for my portrait of Space Godzilla. The final version can be found here.

Speaking of ridiculous Godzilla villains that I can’t stop tinkering with – here’s a version of Megalon, the humanoid beetle with drills instead of hands.

This is another one of my attempts to do a redesign of Gigan that I liked. The fact that I keep trying to come up with one says more about my own occasional inability to love the absurd than it indicates the possibility of a good “organic” design. Japanese entertainment is full of wildly ridiculous monsters. For the most part Godzilla’s adversaries and allies are, at least in my kid mind, somehow, rational designs for monsters. They’re radioactive dinosaurs, space dragons, giant insects or well armed robots. Gigan is a new wave parrot headed dandy with hook hands and a buzzsaw in his chest. He’s goofy. Maybe one day I’ll just accept that and let him be.