Just a heads up that the new issue of Royal Flush Magazine, a high-falutin’, eyeball bursting art and music magazine (stitched together by Revolver Magazine’s art director Josh Bernstein, comic artist Erik Rodriguez and illustrator Steve Chanks), hits stands everywhere on June 17. Rue Morgue readers will most likely be interested in a new interview with Danzig, The Art of Iron Maiden article with artist Derek Riggs, HIM at the movies (where the band picks their favourite horror flicks), and a retrospective on Michael Jackson’s 25th anniversary Thriller (the former and latter featuring full page illustrations contributed by yours truly). Support these dudes and grab one when it hits!

Been busy working on a few projects this month. Here’s a few pieces for your viewing displeasure!

First is another piece for Royal Flush magazine, The Funk of Forty Thousand Years. A tribute to Micheal Jackson’s Thriller.
This was the second piece for Josh and co. and will run in the next issue along with the illustration of the band HIM. I’m looking forward to seeing the next issue and all the amazing artists who contributed to it. A print of this piece is available at New York’s MF Gallery’s Zombie Attacks art show running April 12 to the end of may.

Next is a poster for an upcoming Toronto gig for Tiger Army, The Creepshow and The Unseen.

Here’s a t-shirt design commissioned for the folks behind the stunning animated short film The Pit and The Pendulum.

And I’ll be updating the Merch of Menace store in the coming months with some more prints.
Thanks for visiting!
Ghoulishly yours,
Gary

Here’s two new illustrations of Rob Zombie in the April issue of Revolver, for their Going Postal column.

With a few days left, the official ballots are still open for the 6th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. Rue Morgue is up for best magazine, best article (with two nominations for ‘Kids vs. Monsters,’ by Chris Alexander and Jovanka Vuckovic, RUE MORGUE #69. Interviews with director Fred Dekker, the cast of Monster Squad and for ‘Roll for Your Life: Three Decades of Horror-Themed Board Games,’ by Last Chance Lance, RUE MORGUE #73). As well as nominations for best magazine cover for Issue #64 (The HOST), best convention for Rue Morgue’s annual Festival of Fear, and one for the newest category, best audio horror site or podcast, for Rue Morgue Radio.

Please lurk on over to check out what Rondo is all about and cast your votes! Voting ends March 9th at midnight.

Lot’s of cool new stuff in the works, so stay tombed!

Here’s a couple of recent pieces. The first is an illustration of the band HIM for the next edition of Royal Flush magazine. The devil icons will be used for the February issue of Revolver Magazine.

And here’s a drawing of E.A. Poe I found again. I’m planning on colouring it and making prints. Speaking of which, I’d love to hear what you would like to see become a print and for sale on the site. Please feel free to leave any comments and suggestions. Thanks for visiting and all the BEAST over the holidays!

Halloween has been and gone but the smell of burning pumpkins still lingers. I hope everyone had a very haunted Halloween! Here’s a few updates.

Art prints are finally available for order! Please lurk into the Merch of Menace and check out the prints I had made for my signing at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear this year. I did a limited run of 25 of each design and I only have a few left, so get ‘em while you can! Be on the lookout for new prints in the new year.

Rue Morgue Issue 72 featured an illustration of the Norris creature for a retrospective cover story on John Carpenter’s The Thing. Created first with brushes and black ink, I utilized Photoshop and Painter, a painting program I’ve been dabbling in, to colour the piece. I’m happy with the results, and judging by some of the emails I’ve received, Thing fans are too. If you missed the issue on stands during October, it can be purchased through the Shoppe of Horror’s store on the Rue Morgue website.

The Halloween season also had me busy doing some gig posters for a few bands. Click on the thumbnails or visit the Illustration gig posters links to view them.

Also, Canadian Business magazine recently did an article on Rue Morgue Magazine’s founder Rodrigo Gudiño about the success of the magazine. Here’s a link to the full article:
That’s all for now! Stay Ghoul!
GG