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WTF, Peter Gronquist?

The Last Unicorns

Fairy tales are full of magical animals that turn into princes(ses), give sage advice, cough up enchanted items, and otherwise save the day. Who hasn’t yearned for an encounter with a magical animal, just once?

Sculptor Peter Gronquist gives us that chance, in his own, twisted way. His latest show, The Evolution Will Be Fabulous, reminds me of the villain in my favorite FTF student story, a cruel king who’s killed one of every animal in the forest and mounted their heads on the wall. Only this time the king was hunting magical animals, and those animals were deliciously dark and weird and dangerous.

I mean, right?

You can see these macabre beauties for yourself in Los Angeles, CA, at the Gallery 1988 in Venice through November 4. And you can take one home for as little as $5,000, if that’s your thing.

All I need is a tall ship and star to steer her by!

Thanks to the ever-amazing Super Punch for bringing this bit of wonder to my attention.

Wonder Christmas, activate!

How do the Japanese do Christmas? The clever folks over at Isetan hired Finnish illustrator Klaus Haapaniemi to design a Christmas campaign. The result is “How to Make Wonder Christmas,” a collection of short, wonderfully illustrated vignettes that would do Lewis Carroll proud.

reindeergames

I strongly recommend a visit to the site.

Bonus treats include the phrase “Wonder Eden” and some crazy Christmas carousel music.

You can also buy merch and learn more about the project here.

As always, thanks to Super Punch.

Baba Yaga toys

If you don’t know who Baba Yaga is, you’re missing out on one of the great characters in fairy tale history. She’s dark and light, she’s good and evil. She lives in a little cottage that stinks of carrion and the cottage runs around on big, creepy chicken feet when she feels like a change of venue. The keyhole to her front door is a mouth filled with sharp teeth. She takes a merciless measure of the characters she encounters and acts accordingly.

I love Baba Yaga.

So it is with great delight that I discovered this plush version of Baba Yaga’s chicken-legged house by Melissa Sue Stanley on sale at Etsy.

Thanks again, Super Punch!

Marvel Comics version of the Wizard of Oz

The insanely talented Skottie Young and Eric Shanower are collaborating on a comic book version of the L. Frank Baum classic, The Wizard of Oz.

Read what Skottie Young has to say about translating this lovely old chestnut into the medium of comics.

Courtesy of Super Punch.