Twelve Worthwhile Werewolf Items on Etsy

If you’re an artist who produces a lot of one-off pieces or a “crafty” person with a penchant for Fimo and paper clay you probably already know about Etsy, but for those who don’t, here’s the main sentence: Etsy is an online marketplace where anyone can sell their own handmade wares.  There’s a lot of stuff on Etsy. Some of it is made with heart and care, and some of it is made by people who want to charge you $30 for a $10 cotton t-shirt with “TEAM JACOB” written on it in sparkly fabric paint. Suffice it to say that a search for “werewolf” yields a lot of blubber, but there are some juicy morsels for those who persevere. Here are a dozen things I found this afternoon that I thought were worth sharing (meaning I would buy them for myself).

The Lady & The Wolf by strawberryluna


“2-color, all hand screen printed art print with scarlet blood red and semi-transparent midnight black hand mixed and non-toxic water based inks. Black over prints red in parts, blending the where the Lady ends and the Wolf begins. Edition of 75. Size: 16 x22 inches (39.4 cm x 55.9 cm.) Paper: acid free & archival Cougar, White 100lb cover weight.” [link]

Wolfman by rford


“This is an original hand painted acrylic painting on fine birch wood. Works ship directly from the artist’s studio in Brooklyn, New York. There is no need for a frame. The face is 7 x 7 inches and the sides are one inch which is usually painted the same color as the face.” [link]

Alla Kinda button pack 4 by AllaKinda


“This is the Alla Kinda button pack 4. Four 38 mm original button badge digitally printed on photographic paper. Presented in a cute illustrated package.” [link]

El Lucha Monstruo – El Lobo de Plata by JustinErickson


“The monsters are ready for the fight of the after-life. See Monster Luchadors! Dracula! Frankentstein! The Wolfman, and more! The print is in a limited edition of 50, signed and numbered, and produced on high quality 8.5×11″ art paper stock.” [link]

Wolfman Trick or Treat by flimflammery


“Watch out behind you, kid!
Dimensions: 5″ x 12″
Paper: Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper”
[link]

Bigfoot vs Werewolf Men’s T-Shirt by MisNopalesArt


“Bigfoot vs. Werewolf is an original 1 color silkscreen print designed and hand printed by me. It will be printed on a 100% cotton American Apparel men’s/unisex fine jersey T-Shirt. It is also available to be printed on a women’s tee.” [link]

A Gentleman and a Scholar by breezelzabub


“Looks kind of like bigfoot, is supposed to be a werewolf…doesn’t really matter because I would marry either one of them if they smoked a pipe and wore a monocle.” [link]

Werewolf Monster Pinup Girl, Lupe by ableekertomorrow


“Little Lupe would love to invite you to a romantic picnic in the park, just make sure it’s not by moonlight! Part of Series 2, which contains the phantom, a wolfgirl, a zombie, an invisible girl, a vampire, and Dr Jekyll/Ms Heidi! This is an 8×10 inch print of original artwork lovingly handcrafted, unframed on 100# gloss cover.” [link]

Full Moon Art Print by MysticReflections


“This listing is for an open edition print of an original drawing and is signed by the artist (Caralyn Edwards). All drawings come in a white mat, black may also be available upon request. Approx Size: 8×10 photo in 11×14 Mat” [link]

iPhone 3G Snuggly Skin (Werewolf in Medium Brown) by CasePhile


“Show off your love of horror with this scary werewolf case! A ‘Snuggly Skin’ case is unique; it fits like a glove and has openings for the headphone jack, camera lens, charging plug, touch screen and proximity sensor so you never have to take it off! This case is designed for an iPhone 3G, but will fit an iPhone 3GS.” [link]

Pat O’Lupus the merry flutist – Paper puppet by GouacheRocks


“Pat O’Lupus is a very charming flutist who is asked to play merry dances and popular songs on many parties (weddings, birthdays and everything else). Strangely enough, he is nowhere to be seen on full-moon nights. Pat O’Lupus is a hand-made paper puppet. I printed it on a very thick 100% cotton Hahnemülhe paper.The puppet is composed of 13 articulated pieces. Pat O’Lupus is made after my original artwork in gouache. The puppet is about 13×8 inches. ♦ PAT O’LUPUS IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN A LIMITED EDITION OF 10 PUPPETS ♦ ” [link]

The Full Moon Beat limited print by wreckinbyrd


“This little werewolf is rocking out on his drums under a full moon! He’s part of a limited print run of 50 pieces. Each piece is printed with archival inks on arches paper, numbered and signed.” [link]

Apr. 28th 2010

What Big Ears You Have, Eddie Quist

If you’re a fan of “The Howling” and its starring werewolf Eddie Quist, check out this bust by Bill Weger of Time Slip Creations (original resin bust with sculpted hair) and Monte Ward (paint and hair) of Masks and Monsters. HorrorBid.com posted these photos and an account of how the bust came to be. I was never a fan of those rabbit ears, but this is pretty cool! Thanks for the link, ArcLight!

Apr. 26th 2010

“The Wrong Night in Texas” – a Straight-Up Horror Graphic Novel by Joshua Boulet

I got an email from Joshua Boulet the other day; he wanted to tell me about a 115-page graphic novel he spent 5 years creating. It’s called “The Wrong Night in Texas” and is available directly from the man himself for $10 + $5 shipping. Over the course of the 10-page preview I saw a tornado, a naked guy covered in carved-in pentagrams, a well-executed three-and-a-half page transformation scene and the most gruesomely excellent eyeball-removal ever (“SLAP”). I’m going to try to obtain a copy so I can check out the other 105 pages, but I have a good feeling about it, especially after looking at some of Joshua’s other endeavours.

Apr. 25th 2010

Trippy, Mesmerizing Music Video for Rainbow Arabia’s “OMAR K”

Here’s the official video for “OMAR K” by Rainbow Arabia. A mother and daughter turn into werewolves in a supermarket and wreak havoc. There are tomahawks. Wine is consumed. The werewolves just look like two people with slapdash John Lennon costumes. The music is a weird mix of tribal dance and yelping vocals. It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen all year, and I couldn’t look away.

Can someone interpret this for me? I liked it, but I don’t know why.

Apr. 25th 2010

Gary Oldman & Julie Christie Join “The Girl in the Red Riding Hood” Cast

The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog reports that the cast for “The Girl in the Red Riding Hood” just got a lot cooler. The Warner Bros. film is a gothic re-imagining of the Red Riding Hood story, and word is that Max Irons (son of Jeremy Irons), Amanda Seyfried, Julie Christie (!) and Gary Oldman (!!!) are all involved. From the post:

Amanda Seyfried is already cast in the Catherine Hardwicke-directed project, playing a woman in a medieval village being terrorized by a werewolf. Earlier this week, Shiloh Fernandez nabbed the role of an orphaned woodcutter for whom Seyfried falls, much to the displeasure of her family.

Irons will play Henri, the son of a blacksmith who, through an arrangement, is to marry Seyfried’s character.

Christie, who would make her first studio movie since 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” would play Seyfried’s grandmother, whose favorite pastime is knitting — with a pair of silver needles.

Oldman would play Father Soloman, a man whose title is the Witchfinder General and whose job is to find and kill the werewolf.

I’m happy that they’re making the Wolf in this story a werewolf. Hopefully Catherine Hardwicke will give us a proper beast this time– the last film she directed had a “werewolf” in it too, but I don’t think readers of this site were impressed.

Plus, come on: Julie Christie? Gary Oldman? I have a statue of the last werewolf Oldman played on my desk at work, and Julie Christie is so classy and elegant she could kill a werewolf with her bare hands and not even break a nail.

Apr. 24th 2010

Two Years of Werewolf News

I just realized that this site is now two years old. That’s like 41 in Internet Years! It’s almost time for the midlife crisis thing where I do a full redesign and create an iPhone app or something. Thanks for reading, commenting, submitting things, following along on Twitter and indulging my occasional weeks-long lapses into silence. Thanks also for your support and kind words when bad things happen. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from creating and maintaining this site, it’s that there are cool, friendly and kind people on the Internet. You’re one of them! Thanks!

Apr. 22nd 2010

True Blood, Please Don’t Perpetuate the “Rugged Werewolf Hunk” Stereotype. Oops, Too Late!

Let’s play a game! One of the people in this photo is portraying a werewolf. Which one could it be?

I have only one rule when watching network TV: the show I am watching must be Dexter. True Blood fails this test, and now that I’ve seen this photo of Joe Manganiello as werewolf Alcide Herveaux, I’m obliged to report that the show has failed in another, more crucial way: it promotes the ridiculous and insulting “Rugged Werewolf Hunk” stereotype. This is a phenomenon I have just made up, but consider the evidence.

Joe Manganiello was hired to play a werewolf. Here we see him wearing a plaid lumberjack-style shirt. “Put this on,” he was told. “This is what a werewolf wears. Don’t forget to unbutton the top three buttons, to imply a burly man-chest.” Note the carefully sculpted hair and the full (but carefully trimmed) beard. The result is a figure you might recognize from the covers of countless trashy supernatural romance novels: the Rugged Werewolf Hunk. Dangerous… but tender. Manly… but sensitive. This is the best image that marketing people can come up with when they want to make a werewolf attractive to the average woman. You know he smells like Old Spice and leather, and although he’s a beast he’ll never forget your birthday.

This is what they did to poor, poor Joe Manganiello. To be extra-certain that no one would misinterpret his character’s species, someone asked him to stand in front of a painting of a wolf silhouetted by a full moon and put on his best “hunted” expression.

Now where have I seen this before? Oh yes. I have one of these on my shelf.

Apr. 22nd 2010

George R.R. Martin Werewolf Novella “The Skin Trade” to Become a Film

It’s all right there in the headline! According to Variety, “Spoke Lane Entertainment and Mike the Pike Prods. have acquired film rights to George R.R. Martin’s werewolf novella ‘The Skin Trade.'” Here’s the premise:

Martin’s story is based on a female private investigator on the trail of a serial killer linked to an underground werewolf clan ruling the remains of a vibrant city devastated by a recession.

The novella was first published alongside work by Stephen King and Dan Simmons in a short horror anthology called Night Visions 5. It seems to be out of print, but there are some used copies available on Amazon. I’ve read a little Martin, but not enough to know how I feel about this. I suppose I’m cautiously optimistic. Martin readers, should I be stoked?

Apr. 21st 2010

The Werewolves of Ferelden in Dragon Age: Origins

The opening paragraph of Bobby Travis’s Greywardens.com post on werewolves in Dragon Age: Origins reads like it was written by a guy who bought a cape at Hot Topic and wears it without irony.

I was decidedly annoyed. Annoyed that the creators of something I had been waiting for, and for so many years, had apparently sullied their potentially great work with something so common to run-of-the-mill fantasy and pop-culture.

“This is the sort of pseudo-intellectual wankery that Roukas lives to destroy,” I thought, but I read on, and I was rewarded. I’ve never actually played Dragon Age, but I’ve heard good things from people whose opinions I trust. Once he gets going, Travis waxes philosophical & sociological on the game’s werewolves in a way that got interested enough to look up the game’s required system specs (yes, I can run it). He analyzes the role of werewolves within the game’s world, and comes to the conclusion that they contribute something important to the development of Ferelden’s culture. How cool to see werewolves in games being utilized as something more than hairy “pass the McGuffin” NPCs!

I’m not gonna lie, though. The embedded gameplay video helped.

Apr. 20th 2010

Werewolf Babysitter on This Week’s “This American Life” Podcast

Monday morning’s walk to work is often the best commute of the week for me, courtesy of the This American Life podcast that arrives on my iPod. This week’s episode, Babysitting, begins with a story that had me grinning like an idiot all the way to the office.

Act One. What Big Teeth You Have.

Lots of babysitting is done by family members. Hillary Frank reports on what can happen when a teenaged son is put in charge of his younger brothers. It’s not pretty.

Hint: a full moon and a group of little kids camping in the back field come into play. I can’t recommend This American Life enough, even when it’s not about an 18-year-old traumatizing his little brothers. Check it out.

Apr. 19th 2010