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“My gosh, Bela… How do you do that?”
“You must be double-jointed. And you must be Hungarian.”
I’ve never drawn Bela Lugosi before. How did 34 years go by without a single Bela Lugosi drawing? SHAMEFUL. Plenty of Draculas, plenty of vampires… no Belas. Good to finally have that sorted out. (NOW… Anyone want to help me with my Karloff problem?)
Some Portals, some Avatars, and even more stuff (including a lil’ Warcraft fella) in the COMMISSIONS GALLERY. To gather your OWN army of horrors, send a request to SERENITY@HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM. Might be a while before I do another round of commissions (what with SR3 starting up and all), but if you’ve got an idea, it’d probably be a good idea to get on the list before it gets too bulky. Bulky with IDEAS.
Bleh!
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I mean, just LOOK at that little guy:
Are you strong enough to handle that kind of horror? Well, all right then…
ELDRITCH! #3: “The Instruments of Fear”
Anya Sobczek is locked in a Chamber of Horrors. A surgical table. Rusty scalpels. A tank of roiling black blood, dozens of mean-looking machines, and the hissing head of Medusa herself. CLACK – the door opens, and Anya the Unbeliever gets ready to start a war…STRIKE A BLOW FOR SCIENCE in the new chapter of ELDRITCH!
We’ve got a special promotion this time around for you stalwart ELDRITCH!ites roaming the ELDRITCH!lands… Everyone who’s successfully endured all three issues to date is entitled to a FREE digital copy of “Drippin’” Drew Rausch and “Joltin’” Jocelyn Gajeway’s horror book SULLENGREY, observable below:
It’s why you don’t let your feet dangle over the bed while you sleep. It’s the reason you feel dread while passing dark alleys and why you lock the deadbolt at night. It’s already inside you…. and it’s HUNGRY! Welcome to Autumn’s Grove, a normal little town where your fears manifest, then devour you whole!
To get your free copy and ensure you never sleep again, please check and make sure you’ve purchased all three issues of ELDRITCH! (might be under the cushions there), then send us a request right HERE.
Thank you for all your support, folks! ELDRITCH! #4 will shamble over and say hello on Wednesday, October 19th.
HELLO TOKYO!
And Osaka, Hyōgo, Hokkaido, Chiba, Miyazaki and ALL the other prefectures!
(Cues up Akira soundtrack… DUH-DUH! HEEE-HUH HEEE-HUH!)
Translation AND lettering courtesy of our pal YASUSHI KITAMURA, clearly the coolest person ever to live. He says he’s going to add a page of translation notes to explain all the book’s obscure references, too (What, the cover of Skinny Puppy’s “Too Dark Park” isn’t a cross-cultural constant?), so that should be interesting.
And there’s already some kind of review or something! Over at ReadMe!Girls!の日記・雑記 there are images and words relating to the book, so let’s take a look at the Google translation…
“Goss Goss words
Goth everyday
Or non-routine
Young blue-haired witch
Serenity Rose
Goth comics such
“Serenity Rose”Author Aaron A
have been exposed as a web comic, has been released from this book form as SLG.
Such “Serenity Rose” has been updated Japanese translation.
Well, thankfully boy.
“Serenity Rose” is if you have read the book version is also sorely
(I think you can see reading) and therefore in the text packed fishing Mitchiri frustrated, and this until I read the fine rice Tenakatsu chest. 1p many number of frames it, anyway Mitchiri black. Guhee.
However, Volume 2 (Book2) becomes, is not really a comic easier to read lines can be radically Pages, Volume 1 (Book1) higher hurdle anyway.Japanese translation of this edition is now up to Book1, Book1 only obstacle that I have been translated, great joy.
Serra’s hero and best friend (partner in crime?) But I also do a test of character, my favorite and come
Half British and Japanese
Pink twin
Great witch and a rock star
Vicious WhisperThe Web site we have a vicious corner!
(W I are feeling like life’s consultation Vicious)The background of this work Tonghua goth subculture has quite a rich culture, care becomes read the Japanese version, I think look interesting to read the English original by all means.
For example, Serra and his is now a vicious “witch” is called, in translation here is “witch” has become.
This is not original “WICTH”.Speaking of witch, wizard male witch (Wizard), witches witch witch women (Wicth) has a strong image of women is not the only witch.
Then, a man came to this work witch. Thus the translator is “witch” and the translation seems to be chosen.Sorcerer Wizard rather than witch. Mysteries of the universe, it’s the wizard who know the truth hidden transcendent wisdom.
Meanwhile, the law of Magic (Witch Craft) The fishing operations to put yourself in the dark, it witch.Quite a different nuance.
Be told of this work goes to the Witch and the.Wording of sub-culture even more than that, because there is nothing quite accurate in Japanese, but that seems to be very hard, may be made by the translator will supplement that maybe around.
So, try the translator’s blog
Seems it was a bit hard to read, but then a stroke of luck; “FINE RICE TENAKATSU CHEST” to the rescue! Witches witch witch women (Wicth).
Oddly enough, while Yasushi was lettering SR1, I’ve been lettering manga for a little extra money. The first book I worked on is called Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, or “Goodbye, Mr. Despair,” so I guess I can’t use that title for my autobiography anymore. (THANKS, JAPAN.) Check it out! LINK.
And so the GRAND TRANSLATION CHALLENGE keeps moving along. I have a full Swedish translation here now, with Spanish and German (and… Hebrew?) coming somewhere down the line. But with SR3 coming soon, GOOD GOLLY I don’t know when I’ll have time to letter them. Anyone willing to do some freelance Serenity Rose lettering? I will pay you in fine rice Tenakatsu chests, or possibly a small amount of money and the title “HERO OF CRESTFALLEN.”
I wish my life had a consultation Vicious.
ONWARD TO OCTOBER 4th!
HEJSAN!
Serenity Rose Vol. 1 is now available in SWEDISH, courtesy of our old vän Joakim “SLINKER” Jonsson (who also provided the lettering this time around). Tack, Slink!
Looking through those pages brings a cascade of death metal pounding down on my head. Lovely!
For his efforts, Mr. Jonsson was awarded the following sketch (among other junk):
And for good measure, here’s the one I sent to Yasushi for his Japanese translation last month:
French, Japanese, Swedish, and Dutch… Sure look pretty all lined up there, don’t they? But where, you might be wondering, is Español? ¡Paciencia, a mis amigos! ¡Serenity está volando hacia ti!
Y en el libro de tres, pronto conocerá a un nuevo personaje muy interesante …
GRAND TRANSLATION CHALLENGE FOREVER! Except Na’vi. NEVER Na’vi. I am racist against any blue people more than 3 apples high, you see. (Just how I was raised, man.)
CRAZED weekend full of MAD SIGNAGE coming up, as my twitching, sign-thirsty hands clutch for any available books to deface at not one but TWO signature-making events, Nov. 5th & 6th:
VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL – SATURDAY
Never been to Las Vegas before, but SLG Publishing honcho Dan Vado promises our booth will have “the loosest slots in town,” so I’m excited! Come see me and ELDRITCH!’s Drew Rausch from 10 AM ’til 3 PM at the Clark County Library, comfortably far from the epileptic terror of The Strip. (Please do not try feeding quarters into my head.)
BAT’S DAY HOLIDAY BLACK MARKET – SUNDAY
“The Bats Day Black Market is the premier shopping market experience for the Dark Subculture, which includes from Deathrock to Goth, Industrial to Steampunk, Rockabilly to Psychobilly, Halloween and anywhere in between all with the love for Disneyland.”
Drew and I will have our own table at this one, with a fancy banner and everything. We’ll be selling all our books, art, prints, t-shirts, the lot, including PRINT copies of ELDRITCH! #1 (those sweet “sketch cover” ones you thought were gone forever). We’ll be spookying up the place from 1-9 PM, so please come and keep us company! It’s a really fun event, seemingly tailor-made for anyone who’s into the whole “Serenity Rose” thing. (Assuming a few of you are out there.)
My hands… MY HANDS DEMAND TO SIGN! Put something in front of them before it’s too late!
HAPPY XMAS (THE WORLD IS OVER).
ELDRITCH! #4: “The Dream-Quest of Ted Newbarn”
Theodore “Ted” Newbarn is a real “Regular Joe.” He likes fast cars, chocolate cake, Huey Lewis AND The News. He also has a torso filled with angry black tentacles and an unkillable demon for a baby. And as soon as he figures all that out… man, oh man, things are gonna BURN.
RING IN A TERRIBLE NEW YEAR with a fresh serving of ELDRITCH!
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ELDRITCH! has returned unto you, ye devoted! Your conjurers humbly beg FORGIVENESS for the impure conjurings that delayed our final victory. But fear not! Even now, ELDRITCH! #5 charges toward us through the snow-choked hinterland, drawing ever closer…
The end-game begins in the cold heart of FEBRUARY, 2012!
HAPPY CTHULHSMAS, EVERYONE! Don’t forget to sacrifice some things!
Sera embloodied! Sera embarrassed! Sera emboldened! Sera… in the presence of ZOMBIE JIM HENSON. All these and no more are on offer in the latest round of ORIGINAL ART AUCTIONS.
This is the first (only?) auction for Vol. 3, so why not BE A PART OF HISTORY and strike with all the force of a thousand bidding-ships:
10% of all auction proceeds go to The Humane Society of the United States.
Enjoy the bidding process, everyone! The whole biddy party ends WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd, roundabout 4 PM (PST). Thanks for taking a look, and, more importantly, for continuing to support Serenity!
SERENITY ROSE: “BREAK YOUR STUPID HEART” – ORIGINAL ART AUCTION
YOU THOUGHT YOUR SANITY WAS RESTORED…
BUT WITH HOOK AND CLAW THEY DRAG YOU BACK…
ELDRITCH! #5: “Screams In the Pool-House”
Written by AARON ALEXOVICH – Art by DREW RAUSCH
Willoughby Manor is pulsing with horrors. It writhes with evil, crawls with monsters, and aches to spread its hideous infection across the earth. Master Chaston Willoughby III wants to set all his dark fantasies free… but first he’s got to confront the girl with the Darwin tattoo.
GIVE IN TO MADNESS and get dragged down with ELDRITCH!
We beg you – BEG YOU – not to look into the face of ELDRITCH! #5.
So many hours spent wrestling the unholy, speaking the unspeakable, dreaming the foulest of blasphemies, all to bring into our world something we now know you must not see… Something that no mortal can bear seeing… We tell you now: YOU CANNOT BEAR THE SHOCK OF ELDRITCH! #5.
But you will not listen. YOU WILL NOT LISTEN…
The whole thing comes crashing to earth JULY, 2012.
