I’ve spent a lot of time drawing monsters of late. Monsters are potentially very scary indeed, although the one you’ll see here has an element of cuteness, I think – hooves always temper a creature’s nastiness. So this is the Jersey Devil, a meanie reported to have been sighted in the depths of the New [...]
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The Devil’s Clawmarks?
Recently, I jetted off to the Orkney Islands for a three day tour, talking about being a writer and running workshops with some of the children in the island schools. It was a fun – if occasionally dramatic – few days, and for a full report take a look at this post on my website. [...]
The Silly Monster Book!
Long-time readers of this blog may remember that way back in May last year I attempted to rescue the authors from their hideous monster captors. It was a complete and utter disaster (possibly because I tried to rescue them using rhyming couplets, never a good idea). Ever since then, the monsters have been out for [...]
Beeeee Jeeeeepers!
This is not the pamper destination that was in the brochure. I thought I going to be whisked into a fuzzy glow in the hands of real professionals. I knew something was not quite right when I was dropped off at the dead of night near the mouth of a cave. There was a handwritten [...]
Brief, precious freedom
For the last few days I have been out of the cave, running events at the Turriff Book Festival in Aberdeenshire. I met lots of excited kids, talked nonsense for a total of 7 or 8 hours, and enjoyed the taste of air that wasn’t tinged with the acrid stench of monster dung. Or David’s [...]
THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR, Episode 4 by Barry Hutchison
THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! a Trapped By Monsters story with art by David Melling Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 ‘Um… are you sure this is strictly necessary?’ Gavin the Awful stopped half-way across the cave, and turned his misshapen body towards me. With a hiss, he stuck out his fat, yellow tongue. Attached to the end was [...]
Singing Songs and Eating Bunnies
Happy Easter weekend everybody. Here’s a monster singing a song and eating bunnies, just like they do in the cave here: The Muppets: Stand By Me
Kappa Disco Attack!
If you haven’t met already, allow me to introduce one of the most famous and fascinating Japanese monsters, the Kappa. Handsome, dapper, charming… …are all words that /don’t/ usually get applied to Kappa. However, as I’ve just discovered from this video, it turns out that Kappas can be excellent dancers. Click the link to see [...]
Monster Propaganda!
To my horror, I’ve just uncovered incontrovertible evidence that the monsters are currently engaged in a stealthy public relations drive. All over the world’s media the psychological warfare has begun. Seeds of doubt are already being planted in hapless human minds. The old certainties about monsters are being eroded and undermined, leaving humanity utterly vulnerable [...]
Christmas Kraken
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for one of my absolute favourite monsters, THE KRAKEN. Reprising the classic look from Ray Harryhausen’s original film, the Kraken appears for a whole gleeful climactic eighteen seconds in the current trailer(2) for the soon-to-be-released remake of Clash of the Titans. To my enormous delight, the Kraken was [...]
