Category: Art

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llyzabeth

Oddities & Curiosities Expo – Del Mar 2024

The Oddities & Curiosities Expo was back in Del Mar this weekend; what a fantastically dark, weird, and beautiful art show. Fans of the macabre have a lot to choose from, including sculptures, prints, clothing, pottery, dolls, candles, and more. Including taxidermy. Fair warning if you’re not okay with taxidermy, this show is very well

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llyzabeth

DesignerCon 2023 Photo Gallery

I’m really happy to say that DesignerCon‘s final year in Anaheim (they move to Las Vegas in 2024) was a great one. It was definitely smaller than last year (possibly because a real estate convention bumped them out of their usual dates and the week before Christmas didn’t work for everybody) but still full of

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llyzabeth

Binary System Fan Art Gallery – 2023 Travel Edition

Binary System was on the road last weekend, and since we didn’t get a chance to record in between adventures (“adventures” being family dinners, craft fairs, and invisible coffee shops) (we’ll explain later) please enjoy a gallery of some of our latest fan art finds. #TheMandalorian returns with fan art by @camartinart #starwars #starwarsfan #mandalorian

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Leland Pierce

MIDSUMMER SCREAM 2023

This past weekend was the 6th annual Midsummer Scream Halloween convention. Held at the Long Beach convention center, it’s a wonderful convention for fans of Halloween, haunts, scares, horror, spooky home décor, movies, and all things macabre. “Midsummer Scream has become the kick-off of the Halloween season for an ever-growing community of fans of all things

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llyzabeth

Binary System Fan Art Gallery – The Hiatus Edition

Well since Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus for July and Lore Olympus is about to go on hiatus for FOUR MONTHS AAAAAA (take all the time you need Rachel Smythe your health is the most important thing but still) AAAAAAA, sorry, anyway, please enjoy this week’s fan art gallery, Transformers style!

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llyzabeth

Dark Horse announces “Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean”

LEGENDARY ARTIST DAVE MCKEAN’S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ARTBOOK COLLECTION: “THALAMUS: THE ART OF DAVE MCKEAN” Dark Horse Books presents the first comprehensive collection of work from legendary artist Dave McKean in Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean, a beautifully-designed set of two hardcover volumes with satin ribbon bookmarks, housed together in a stunning slipcase displaying new original artwork by McKean. This collection features

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llyzabeth

Sketchparty San Diego at Whistle Stop Bar

My friend Alex invited me to the twice-monthly Sketchparty San Diego a while ago and I’m so glad I finally went! If you’re not one of the many artists who know all about it already, the Whistle Stop Bar covers all their tables with paper (white or brown, though I hear they used black paper

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Leland Pierce

Season’s Screamings 2022 

It’s that time of year again where Christmas meets horror at the Season’s Screamings 2022 convention, held in Pasadena this past weekend. An event featuring haunted attractions, spooky shopping, and more for fans of haunts, horror and Halloween… but with a winter holiday twist!! The sister con to the very popular Midsummer Scream, where that con celebrates all

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llyzabeth

DesignerCon 2022 Photo Gallery

It was great to get back to DesignerCon this year (I didn’t get to go last year, and of course nobody went in 2020) and soak in all the gorgeous, surreal, mind-bogglingly weird art. Here’s what caught my eye on Saturday! (I’ve put an instagram address on every photo, but if I mislabeled something please

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