Off-the-cuff collaborative Monster Manual

a dracula

2008-07-17T05:37:28Z

Hieronymus Bosch Monster

2008-07-12T14:22:45Z

Hey everyone! I just joined this community and I thought I'd post a monster I stole out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

Monster Hunting in Los Angeles

2008-07-06T01:03:42Z

10. Bigfoot

You make think Bigfoots are only a Northwoods beast, but Los Angeles has 3 distinct breeds of city ape. The first is your standard bigfoot, 6-11 ft tall shaggy gigantopithecus. The first sighting came in 1973 when a full sized Macho Sasquatcho chased down a pick up truck out in San Fernando Valley. The beast got close enough to the vehicle that they could smell its breath, which they later told reporters was "stinky." In 1974 a bigfoot was actually seen in the city, between 45th st and 47th st on Quartz Hill.

Best places to go bigfoot hunting: Big Rock Canyon in San Fernando Valley, Quartz Hill in the San Gabriel Mountains, Azusa at the San Gabriel Mountain Foothills, Campgrounds in Santa Clarita, Elizabeth Lake, Lancaster.

9. Skunk Ape

Bigfoots little brother is most commonly sighted in Florida, but he's also been seen in Palos Verdes and Redondo Beach, moving in and out of the suburbs via the sewers and knocking over trash cans for food. Skunk ape stands about 4 to 5 feet tall and reeks.

Best Place to go Skunk Ape hunting: Palos Verdes near the Dominator shipwreck. Redondo beach fields and suburbs at night.

8. The Beast of Billiwhack

The third kind of LA bigfoot might not be an ape at all. Seen once in Santa Paula and once in nearby Ojai, the Billiwhack beast has an shaggy, grey-black ape-like body, but an extended muzzle and goat like horns. It may be related to the Krampus or Wampa. Known to raid farms for chicken, corn, and dairy products.

Best places to go Billiwhack hunting: The Billiwhack Dairy in Aliso Canyon, Santa Paula, farms and forests in the San Rafael mountains and Ojai.

Beasts 7 through 1 after the cut, including a real live Sea Serpent

my passion)

2008-07-02T18:27:21Z

Sumerian lamassu

2008-06-29T19:31:38Z

My favorite thing about the lamassu is that it has five legs. I don't know if there are any free-standing lamassu in the world, but the one at the Met, for example, is carved in alto relievo; so to make it look normal from whatever direction you're observing it, lamassus must have five legs.

Guess who traded some old graphic novels for a couple of AD&D Monstro Manuals?

2008-06-28T06:24:40Z

So: I would never in a million years claim that I have even a lick of talent in regard to the visual arts (I actually do some comic book writing: www.indieonly.com), but I enjoy putting marker to paper none-the-less.

This LJ community inspired me to trade in some crappy Michael Bay DVDs and a few ratty trade paperbacks to my local resale shop in exchange for some sweet-ass, old-timey MONSTER MANUALS from the Jurassic era of the 1970's; from which my lady friend and I have sketching like 30th level battle mages after rolling a natural twenty on a constitution save vs a Balrog's "intimidating glare".

Or, whatever.

Enjoy the trainwreck that is my drawing ability.

Click the icon to instantly feel more talented.

Skwid Spock

2008-06-26T22:40:55Z

Skwid Spock (as seen above) is a member of the highly advanced, superemely logical species of Sea Vulcan.

He patrols both the stars and the sea on his quest to find monsters equally as awesome as he.

Monster Mondays - The Glashtin

2008-06-16T23:55:40Z

kelpie.jpg, originally uploaded by Boju.

As part of the Dapper Cadaver Blog's ongoing Monster Monday project, today I bring you a Father's Day Monster from The Isle of Man

The Glashtin is a Manx water-horse ( not to be confused with a sea-horse</a>) with a fondness for lonely girls, and has been know to feed off their bodies and blood. He's a shape shifter who can transform from a sort of Mer-Horse into a perfectly handsome looking human, with horse ears. He can also appear as a half-man half-horse, and a normal horse. In each form he's incredibly muscular and looking for someone to ride him, a journey which always leads back to the still waters he calls home, where his rider discovers they can't jump from his back, and they get pulled to their deaths.

Glashtins can be put to good use, as farm hands, if you can control them,. They're basically a horse with the hands of a man, or a man with the strength of a horse. Just watch your daughter and keep a fire burning. They're scared of fire and vulnerable to burns (aren't we all?).

Glashtins will often seek out lonely young girls, like run aways, or farmers daughters living far from cities and other people. They can appear as handsome young men, or even as the girls own father, anything to get in the house. They're easily tricked by men in drag, who they mistake for ladies. Many a Glashtin has been put down by a gun toting farmer in a skirt. Forget fire, Trannies are a Glashtins real weakness.

There's a famous tale of a Glashtin in the form of a girl's long lost father appearing in a rain storm. She unlocked the door and welcomed him in. As he sat by the fireplace to warm himself, he removed his hat and the girl noticed he had horses ears. She grabbed a burning coal from the fire and burned that Glashtin, and he fled.

Folklore always talks about a weakness to fire like it some magic thing. As though if I jabbed a burning coal into the face of a human that'd be cool. They say if you set a wall on fire a Glashtin won't cross it. I'm pretty sure in that scenario the Glashtin is the smart one, cause now your trapped in side a burning, albeit Glashtin free, house.

Monster Mondays - Dossenus

2008-06-11T17:46:42Z

Manducus - Dossenus, originally uploaded by Boju.

Happy Monster Monday everybody! It's been a couple weeks since our last post. I just moved into a beautiful new house in Echo Park and spent last week doing blood pools on the set of Dexter, so I haven't been at the desk for a spell.

This week the Dapper Cadaver blog brings you a creature from ancient Greece - Dossenus, the ever-chomping!

Dossenus is a monster who eats everything, like a Pac Man. He wears a theatrical Manducus mask, a classical greek drama mask which depicts a man chewing or grimacing. Or sometimes the Manducus is his sidekick and is a monster in it's own right.

Beneath his mask Dossenus was part man, part animal, part manimal, and all monster. He could devour anything and the greeks and romans both feared he would devour the "Cosmic Theater,"- the universe. Kind of like a locust from hell.

The Dossenus is also the name of an order of jumping spiders that like to vibrate and bang their butts to make music and attract a mate. Watch the video, it's amazing! They also want to eat the cosmic theater.

Mai Kubi/Nukekubi

2008-05-31T06:28:01Z

Mai Kubi/Nukekubi, originally uploaded by Craig Arndt.

Japanese Yokai for a gallery show in a couple weeks at Bear and Bird Gallery.

Mai Kubi: Long ago three samurai/merchants (depending on what version you listen to) were arguing at a festival, the arguement got to the point where they cut off each others heads and those heads drained down a whirlpool arguing all the way. I'd like to think that eventually they started to get along.

Check under the cut for my other piece

X-Files Monster week

2008-05-31T00:22:21Z

Hey all!
lucy lou (Lucy Knisley) has started a drawing challenge, counting down the weeks to the new X-Files movie premier. Now, regardless of what your personal level of excitement is about the movie, I know a lot of you monstermanual posters have a glowing X-shaped spot in your hearts. This the first week of the drawing challenge should appeal to you all the more, as it is drawing your favorite monster from the show! Come on, you guys know you want to draw Bruce Campbell as a demon, or some babies with tails!

I daresay you should crosspost your drawings here AND to the community Lucy started with this project in mind, xfilescountdown.

Let's see some monsters, people! And don't feel like you can't draw something if its already been drawn. Keep in mind YOU haven't drawn it yet!

And of course, you are more than welcome to draw beyond week 1, though I imagine it's the beasties that most people here would prefer to draw.

So get those styluses and/or scanners going!

news item:

2008-05-28T14:21:39Z

Huge, hairy frog breaks own bones to make claws.

the Mad Doctor

2008-05-28T04:00:09Z

I did this for fun. It's a mad scientist!

full image behind the cut because it's huge.

I think I'm going to color this at some point.

The Freudian Nightmare

2008-05-19T21:31:30Z

There, now that wasn't so bad, was it?

The Kremlin Gremlin!

2008-05-17T04:47:38Z

I did this one a while ago when the team at my workplace were all drawing cold war super villains.

monstermanual @ 2008-05-13T12:54:00

2008-05-13T19:58:36Z

Not that I would necessarily want to see a flood of YouTube videos in here, I thought this one was inventive, monster-oriented and unique enough (tons of Thai ghosts!) to warrant an inclusion. Ladies and gentlemen, can you tell the ghosts from the transvestites?

Monster Mother's Day: Top 10 Monster Moms (and were they MILFs?)

2008-05-13T01:28:24Z

As part of Dapper Cadaver's ongoing Monster Monday series, today I bring you a very special tribute to all the mother monsters out there. It is a testament to our love of mothers and our sympathy for them that in the mythological tradition of 6 billion people spanning 10 thousand years I could barely find 10 beings that could rightly be called monster mothers. Those that do fit the bill though are terrifying and powerful indeed, like a rampaging mother grizzly horribly mutated and kind of hot.

10. Mother-Of-Fishes - As her name states, a giant fish that protects all the fish and creatures of the sea and inland waterways. Said to be a trout so large her back is an island with trees growing on it. MILF factor - 0

9. Gargamelle - Gargamelle is not just the evil alchemist who wants to eat smurfs or something in the smurfs, Gargamelle is also a giantess in French mythology and the mother of Gargantua. MILF factor not much judging from this picture

8. Mother Flog - Mother Flog is a stout little matron elf who hides in saucepans to catch greedy children in the act of ruining their appetites. She then flogs them mercilessly. MILF factor - despite a sexy name, Mother Flog just doesn't follow through.

7. Coinchenn - A dog headed woman and the fatal protector of her child, the beautiful Delbehaem. A prophet told Coinchenn she would die once her daughter was engaged, so Dog-Head took to decapitating every young man who came within 50 feet of her daughter. The heads were displayed on brass spikes in Coinchenn's garden. MILF factor - Delbehaem must have gotten her hot body from this half-milf, but Coinchenn was cursed with a head only a furry could love.

See the rest of the top 10 monster moms here

Monster Mondays - The Butatsch Ah ILgs

2008-05-06T00:50:04Z

Stichopus-sp-1, originally uploaded by Boju.

As part of Dapper Cadaver's ongoing Monster Monday's project today I bring you the most horrible thing Switzerland has ever produced, the Butatsch Ah ILgs.

The Butatsch is a great and terrifying amorphous blob, like a swollen stomach, but covered with leering eyes that can shoot fire. The Butatsch lived at the bottoms of lakes, at the gateways between earth and hellish neitherworlds. The fire from its eyes was the very same as the hellfire of eternal damnation.

For I think obvious reasons, no fishermen would fish in the waters where the Butatsch was said to dwell, but the beast was so feared that no shepherd would allow there sheep to graze on any hillside facing his infernal lake.

Since no Butatsch has ever been photographed, the part of the Butatsch is being played by a Stichopus Sea Cucumber.

SOME MONSTROS

2008-04-30T07:59:03Z

Hey so I never post to this community but i enjoy reading it. There's been some cool stuff posted. Anyhow, just thought i'd throw in some recent monsters of my own.

THE HONGRY MAN

One of those regional legends that may actually be true, the "HONGRY MAN" allegedly roams the potato fields of the midwest, constantly looking for food or late night farmers to eat.

FISTORR

FISTOR has really big arms and fists. Favorite pastime: pounds the skulls of night gnomes.

FROGMEN OF THE DEEP

Subterranean and submerged, bad news!

Kappa

2008-04-30T07:32:47Z

Kappa by ~Pachycrocuta on deviant ART

Monster Mondays: Long Wang

2008-04-29T02:00:36Z

As part of the Dapper Cadaver blogs Monster Mondays, I bring you a king amongst Chinese Dragons - Long Wang!

Long Wang is a serene type of dragon and the specific dragon of the "Year of The Dragon" part of the Chinese zodiac. They presides over watery weather and scaly creatures like lizards and fish.

Being in charge of water and rain, Long Wangs often dribble themselves with dewdrops or come in floods.

The noble Long Wang does not understand why Westerners constantly snicker around it and laugh behind Long Wang's back.
Treat the mighty Long Wang with awe and respect.

Kasa Obake

2008-04-20T11:47:38Z

From wikipedia: Karakasa (唐傘, Karakasa? "Chinese umbrella"), or Kasa Obake, are a type of Tsukumogami, a form of Japanese Spirit that originate from objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate.

Man, other countries are lucky they don't have to deal with this sort of thing!

monstermanual @ 2008-04-17T18:09:00

2008-04-17T08:12:23Z

Bunneh Approves.

I dunno. But it's cool, isn't it?

Manticore

2008-04-17T06:13:32Z

monstermanual @ 2008-03-22T14:21:00

2008-03-22T18:23:04Z

These aren't the kind of monsters I associate with this community, but what the hell?

Maybe everybody's too absorbed with Smash Brothers to post anyway. :D