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Good luck with your new blog. I'm a reader of Paleo-Future myself, love that stuff!

Have you ever seen Lillian Plunkett's "8th wonder of the world" back in the mid 90s?

http://fourcolorcommentary.blogspot.com/2008/04/8th-wonder24-pgs-295-dark-horsestory.html

Awesome, awesome name for the new blog, Eric. In terms of action figure customizing, Sillof has done an extensive series of steampunk figures over the past couple of years:

http://www.sillof.com/

Thanks Koldo~This blog will not be about science,fashion or DIY so much as about books and art which I hope sets it apart from what other people have been doing.

Very, very cool Tim! I hadn't seen that before, I'll have to order it.
Thanks!

Thanks so much Bruce! Yeah, I love Sillof's work. Do you know Glorbes(aka Bruce Ros)? He's a collaborator with Sillof and his work is just amazing:
http://glorbes.blogspot.com
The second post I have planned is about Bruce's dieselpunk reimagings of superheroes.

Sorry Bruce that should read "Bruce Ross" not "ros"

Aye, Eric, I know him very well ;)

I second Eth Wonder - although it's Killian!
Are you familiar with Ian Edginton and D'israeli's work? They've done a War of the Worlds adaptation and spin off for Dark Horse, and their excellent comics Leviathan and Stickleback have had been collected.

hahaha!

Sorry Bruce I thought you were Bruce Gerlach! Oh well.....

I haven't read there stuff Paul! Looks amazing, I'll track it down.
Thanks so much!

Sounds cool! Happy New Year my friend!

Thanks Rawls!

Hey eric, you might want to check out an Umberto Eco book called, The Misterious Flame of Queen Loana. Its set in the present but deals with loss of memory and comic books, grahic novels, and ephemera of the past that have elements of anachronism. Peace.

I remember when that book came out but for some reason I didn't read it. Thanks Matt!

How about the Foglios. Girl Genius is a steampunk story they have been writing for years.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

Good one Jimmy! Thanks! Great series.

zeppelins! :X Love it.

Hey Eric, these top three drawings in the attached link are somewhat consistent with your theme here. Not sure if you've ever seen them.Thought you might enjoy.

http://timbaron.blogspot.com/2007/11/lots-and-lots-of-little-black-lines.html

Lovely! You're doing some really cool stuff. I'm quite jealous of your energy and skill.

Thanks Eric!

Thanks Tim! amazing pictures!

Thanks Tom! You seriously just made my week1 I love your work and aspire to be even a tenth as good as you.

Hi Eric-- This post just struck me as so funny and so very high school (having a high school age boy, myself!) Especially the part about it not being any good unless your hand hurt. Haha! It's a great drawing, though! :-)

Thanks Jennifer! Guys are pretty hard on them selves. Then again, so are girls. My scanner isn't working so I'm really mining my old work.

Ha ha yes, that sounds so familiar, thinking "my hand hurts, it must be quality artwork". Hey - This is quality artwork though!

I used to make pointillist gouache paintings with the smallest brush I could buy, countless tiny tiny dots of bright colour straight from the tube. The thinking was: that's what printed stuff looks like, so it must be proper, and also, it REALLY makes my hand hurt...

Reminds me of "Yoshimi battles the pink robots", which is a song I like.

Ha! I love that song...now it'll be in my head all day! I still have a bit of that attitude. Art teachers used to argue with me about it, I was really stubborn with my logic. If it takes forever it must be good.I'm a bit easier going about it now.

Yes... My course leader used to say "As a rule of thumb, an artist who does more detailed artwork commands higher fees." I still don't know if that's true!

My teachers were the opposite. I had one teacher, who had gotten his start at Bahaus who always said " A monkey can draw, he just doesn't know when to stop."
I really love detail though and it seems more acceptable in illustration.