As reported by Shock Till You Drop and corroborated through official channels, Canada’s favourite alcoholic werewolf lawman is headed south. Image Entertainment has secured U.S. distribution rights to Lowell Dean’s horror-comedy WolfCop, which means officer Lou Garou will soon be splattering gore, puke and other bodily fluids across the screens of theatres across America. No release date has been announced yet, but I’d wager the cost of Lou’s bar tab that it’ll be in theatres in time for Halloween.
Limited werewolf & fantasy creature art commissions from Viergacht
Fantastic monster / fantasy / creature artist and longtime friend of the site Viergacht has opened up a few commission slots!
I typically paint things like people, animals and monstery critters. Check around the gallery. Digital works will get you a print-quality file in whatever file format you prefer (tif, psd, png, etc.). If you want something you don’t see here, like an animated gif, con badge, tattoo design, whatever, feel free to email [viergacht at gmail dot com] and ask.
I’ve been the lucky recipient of several werewolfy Viergacht paintings thanks to my writing, my birthday and my participation in dumb speculation about “Back To The Future“. If you’d like some eerily realistic, biologically plausible monster art, now’s your chance!
Spooky Sleepover Kickstarter featuring “Dinner and a Werewolf”
Any pitch that opens with the line “A haunted toilet” is going to be good. “Spooky Sleepover” is a full-colour 72-page all-ages comic collection being Kickstarted by Dave Scheidt and Jess Smiley. It features three original stories written by Dave and illustrated by Jess: “The Terror of the Toilet”, “The Horribly Haunted Bike” and (yes, you guessed it) “Dinner and a Werewolf”. I’m a huge fan of Dave’s writing, and Jess’s art combines infectious energy with timeless, storybook colours. They’re collaborating on Spooky Sleepover because, as Dave puts it, “we like monsters, we like funny comics, we like writing stupid jokes.” (more…)
Found-footage werewolf thriller ‘Wer’ punted to home video
Via Bloody Disgusting comes the news that ‘enormous man who might be a monster, or is the monster us???‘ film Wer won’t be getting a theatrical release. Universal Home Entertainment is pushing William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman’s found footage thriller directly to DVD and digital download. (more…)
Ernest Mathijs analyzes feminism, identity & lycanthropy in “John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps”
Friend of the site Tim McGregor (who astute readers may remember as the author who volunteered his book Bad Wolf for a Worst Werewolf Books post in 2011) recently shared with me the existence of John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps, an ebook by UBC Film Studies Professor Ernest Mathijs. (more…)
Harry Potter’s “Fenrir Greyback” actor Dave Legeno passes away
Sad news from over the weekend – actor, MMA fighter and “Big Friendly Gentleman” Dave Legeno has passed away from heat stroke at the age of 50. His body was discovered Friday by hikers in a remote section of Death Valley, where it appears he had been hiking alone in temperatures that peaked around 101° F (39° C). Legeno was most widely known for playing infamous werewolf Fenrir Greyback in the Harry Potter films. (more…)
The art of Kevin Cornell
I’ve been employed in the web development world since 2005, and tinkering with HTML as far back as 1997. That’s the same year A List Apart was founded, and the online magazine “for people who make web sites” has been on my regular reading list ever since. The articles are always well-written and interesting, but a big draw for me (no pun intended) are the accompanying illustrations by Kevin Cornell. (more…)
The werewolves of “The Order: 1886” are smart, dangerous & not shy about transforming
The Order: 1886 is a single-player action game from Ready At Dawn, in development since 2010 and due out early next year as a PlayStation 4 exclusive. It takes place in an alternate history London, and follows an order of knights who represent the first line of defence in a centuries-old war between mankind and the werewolf-like Half-Breeds. (more…)
DC wolfs out Batman and Superman for October
DC Comics is running a monster-themed variant cover for many of its titles this October, and the cover of BATMAN/SUPERMAN #15 features the two superheroes fully wolfed out. Jon Bogdanove and Alex Sinclair got me interested in two characters I haven’t thought about since the Baman Piderman Kickstarter in May. Supes, control those fur gauntlets, man! (more…)