Monster Flesh, Comics and Movies

How To Rise Above The Swarm – Part 8
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I see a monster and I want to paint it green!

Recently, I shared a bit regarding the influence of graphic novels on my work. On that note, and while I’m drawing and painting the undead, I should give a shout out to Berni Wrightson, one of the greatest graphic horror illustrators of all time. I flatter myself that there’s a bit of Wrightson’s dark magic in my undead swarms.

Beyond the graphic novels, I also draw from horror films. In selecting shades for the skins of zombies,

Bravery – SwordsWoman vs. The Living Dead

This art was done at the request of a loved one who wanted to see a blond warrior woman doing battle with zombies. The piece was named by yet another loved one. I had no title for it myself.
It may be the first zombie drawing I’d ever attemped in my adult life. (I had done an undead sketch or three in middle school and high school.)
I’m a great fan of Science Fiction-based zombies: Romero’s ghouls, animated possibly by radiation from a space probe, the Return of The Living Dead resurrected by a chemical, and the mad killers of 28 Day and Weeks Later infected by a rage virus. I suspect that the walking dead pictured here have been raised instead by

Zombie Flick Faves

Brains!      I ask you, dear Brain, can you select one zombie movie to rise as my one true favorite of the genre? 

     Impossible! I love different zombie flicks for different reasons. 

     First,