21 December 2006
Slightly Fishy
A generous friend of mine was kind enough to burn me a CD of H.P. Lovecraft stories, which I hadn't been introduced to before. Here's an attempt at depicting 'the Innsmouth look' ... I'm afraid it came out rather more as a graphic style than a set of physical characteristics. Mike Mignola seems to be able to do it possibly without even trying, though he's brillant and well-read enough it's probably conscious.
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That would be close, assumming the the characteristics appeared on little children, which i dont think they do. What an adorable little fish toddler though!
Course the children are fishy! It's the Innsmouth strain for Dagon's sake.
The top left girl reminds me of a Jim Henson puppet...and that's a good thing.
That's cute. Which, to be honest, is how it seemed to me when I first read the thing. The atmosphere, the chase scared the hell out of me but the descriptions of the fish people... I thought they were cute. And the ending, well, he gets to live forever, under the sea. In an octopus's garden, in the shade.
I guess it was scarier to the original audience who'd never watched The Little Mermaid or Finding Nemo.
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