Today, my drawing skills are severely lacking again – maybe due to the mysterious runny nose that doesn’t seem to be a cold and doesn’t go away with allergy medicine. Whee.
In other news, I was in Malmö yesterday and had a nice chat with Mattias Elftorp, the creator of Piracy is Liberation and many other strange and curious projects. We shared some thoughts on HPL – it was his birthday, after all – and Mattias lent me a little black book containing the Swedish translation of Lovecraft’s own notes on dreams, ideas and random useful themes. On the bus back home I was already chuckling to gems such as “55. Man followed by invisible creature“, when a sudden stop made me look up straight at an advertisement board: “We are seeking city dreamers”. Below that, the name of the company: Dagon.
Suggested reading: H.P. Lovecraft, “Dagon” (1917)
Inspired by a dream, it was one of his first mature writings, and already contains many themes recurring in the Cthulhu mythos: sea monsters, monoliths, lost civilizations that are revealed to be “not fully human”, visions of future doom for mankind, and typical Lovecraftian phrases: the gibbous moon, the Stygian deeps, and “other less describable things”…
I think your drawing skills may have been lacking because Mochi is not in this page!
He he … Funny “coincidence” with the company Dagon …