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by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by a San Francisco French Roast, with milk and sugar. One of the remarkable things about being human is our innate need to create. Whether it’s dinner or a song or a flower garden or a method for more effectively driving to […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
Guest Post by S.T. Cartledge Today’s Tea House post is brought to you by a good old fashioned Irish Breakfast tea. It’s nothing fancy, it’s just a good, reliable tea. It’s a great way to start the morning. I recently moved house, and there’s been a period of about a week […]
by Tracy Vanity In a town that never changes, children must work and adults get to play. But something is really off about this place called “Lantern Town”…first of all, there are only five children in the whole town and their job is to go out every night to look […]
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by a hot toddy. Over at the delightful Myth and Moor blog, amazing writer, editor, and artist Terri Windling recently discussed the issues surrounding using the Internet as a break while working. Go on, go take a look. I’ll wait. I definitely […]
by Tracy Vanity This first Bizarro short is pretty much Batman with clowns. I love clowns. Avey Tare from Animal Collective created this music video to promote his album “Enter the Slasher House.” Little Fang, the cat vampire-looking puppet, is from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and there is a serious nod […]
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by green power hour juice. Being an artist is hard work. For me, it’s a combination of physical, mental, psychological, emotional and spiritual work. A good day of writing is exciting, and I’m fueled at the end of my work, absolutely filled […]
by Tracy Vanity
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by raspberry tea. In the past, I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about failure. In fact, I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time feeling like a failure. More than is good for one’s mental health, for sure. But over the […]
by Spike Marlowe I was a writer for a long time before I was an editor. I’ve been an editor for about eight months, and in that short time, I’ve learned a lot that’s benefited me as a writer. The truth is, before I was an editor, I’d heard a […]
If you love words as I do, you’ve got to love history. Although many expressions that came into existence long ago are still in use and their meanings as idioms are clear to us, the original meanings of the phrases may be lost without a search in history. Sometimes the […]
by S.T. Cartledge Today’s Tea House post is brought to you by Oolong tea. Most of the time I’m like your everyday tea drinker, a great way to start the day is with a good black tea, milk and sugar, nice and sweet. Irish Breakfast, preferably. Oolong is not like […]
by Tracy Vanity Nothing is more soothing and inspiring than a dose of weird animation. Just like with Bizarro fiction, there are things you can do in animation that can be impossible to recreate in real life. Not only are all these shorts bizarre and well-crafted, they also convey ideas […]
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by peppermint tea. Lately, I’ve been running into the concept of modern artists using the concept of what could effectively be called a muse in their creative processes. For example, Steven Pressfield (author of numerous books, most notably The Legend of Bagger […]
by Alan M Clark Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. Need a further explanation? Go to Imagination Workout—The Dilation Exercises. Bill Toby Gerbil marries […]
by Tracy Vanity I have a thing for clowns…
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by a donut from Voodoo Donuts. As artists, it’s not uncommon for us to get stuck in a rut in terms of the art and media we consume. I know writers who only read one genre or only fiction. I know musicians […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
by J.W. Wargo “The Slow Poisoner (alias Andrew Goldfarb) is a one-man surrealistic rock and roll band who hails from San Francisco and has been playing the devil’s music to audiences across America since 1996.” –The Slow Poisoner Website I’ve had a fondness for multi-instrumentalists and one-man bands most of […]
by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by eggnog vanilla lattes. Last week, I encouraged you to visualize what you’d like your artistic life to be one year from now, and to write it down. So, what did you visualize? Did you see yourself writing a regular comic? Did […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
by Sam Reeve I’ve studied, learned, grown, and spent a lot of time as a professional artist making a decent living doing art, but in all that time and through all those jobs I’ve learned one all-important thing. It was the time I spent, like the kid at the kitchen […]
By Sam Reeve Gwen Murphy has done a huge series she calls “Foot Fetish”, which has little to do with the sexualization of feet, but lots to do with shoes. Seems she used real shoes for these surreal and amusing sculptures, but if she didn’t, it doesn’t matter. They’re awesome! […]
By Sam Reeve Marcial Coba is a young artist from Quito, Ecuador, and possesses a ridiculous amount of patience: his large oil paintings reportedly take months to complete. Check out his full portfolio here.
by Sam Reeve James Quigley, born in 1974, is a self-taught artist who started his career at an early age doing album covers, gig posters and zine art for locals. Now he works with skateboard companies to produce insane deck art and t-shirts, and he created the artwork for an […]
by Sam Reeve Strange creatures, geometric shapes, and lots of lines and colour. This is what you’ll find in Matt Leines’ artwork. This talented illustrator was born and raised in Totowa, New Jersey, but has since escaped to Brooklyn. See more of his work here, or check out his Etsy […]
By Sam Reeve Whoah! December is almost over and then it’ll be 2014! Bizarro Central has some wonderful stuff in store, so stick around. Dorian Cleavenger is known for his surreal fantasy paintings that depict hot, albeit often weird-looking ladies. He started out doing freelance work, sometimes for large corporations […]
By Sam Reeve I hope everyone is having a very metal Christmas! I’m sitting in my dark house listening to Ulver. ‘Tis the season! Justin Bartlett’s art is completely appropriate for this blackest of days and I just can’t get enough of it. His style is inspired by that of […]
By Sam Reeve Sick of the holidays yet? I instantly regretted leaving my house today. People were assholes, especially on the road. I wanted to find something bloody and awful for today’s post, and Adalberto Abbate’s micro sculptures are perfect: little mini people suffering terribly or killing each other! Adalberto […]
By J. W. Wargo “Industrial rock with a black sense of humor, burlesque and machine rock fusion, experiments in sound and fury.” –Flood Damage Facebook Page (This edition of Unearthly Sounds highlights a writer from within the Bizarro Community who also happens to be a kick-ass noisemaker, Michael Allen Rose. […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Since this week’s workout is so close to the holidays, Robert Devereaux was asked to lead the exercise with material inspired by his series, The Santa Claus Chronicles. Using the cover artwork for the existing three novels as inspiration, he has […]
By Daniel Vlasaty Today is brought to you by Goose Island 312. I wrote a book! And that is awesome. It’s called The Church of TV as God and it’s probably the most awesome thing I’ve ever done, aside from maybe marrying my wife … or deciding to grow a […]
By Sam Reeve I always feel compelled to feature super un-Christmasy art on the last few days leading up to the holiday, and Ed Repka’s art fits the bill. Known as the “king of thrash metal art”, he created some of the most iconic metal album covers and merch designs […]
