Tina Turner as Aunt Entity in MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985).
As a kid, I was on my own a lot. I used to sort of walk around in my own fantasy world, where only I knew the way. I always had little obsessions, fascinations, fads. I composed songs with nonsense words in my head, which I can still sing verbatim.
Around the time MAD MAX III came out one of the mental images that got stuck in my head for a while was Tina Turner as Aunt Entity. I don’t know why, I’m not sure I even saw the film back then. I just thought about the character a lot, like her appearance contained a hidden message for me. She looked stern and troubled, charismatic. Aunt Entity, queen of a derelict hell-hole. I only have to look at these images—and zap, I’m right back in those empty sunless rooms of my childhood home.
Publicity images of the Muppets with some of their guests.
Monaco Grand Prix posters by French painter, Géo Ham (1900-1972).
TINTIN animation art from the 1950s-1970s. The best (and the most faithful) adaptation of the original comics has to be the 1990s animated series. Yet there’s a charm to the earliest attempts— the sacred source material packaged as a Saturday morning cartoon!—and the 1970s films have the distinction of being blessed by Tintin’s creator, Hergé, and can therefore be considered as additions to the original comics.
Boring postcards.
(Inspired by Martin Parr’s book of the same name.)
HORSE AND TRAIN (1954), by Alex Colville.
(Trivia question: in which film does this painting make an appearance?)
Cover art to Carl Jung’s FLYING SAUCERS: A MODERN MYTH OF THINGS SEEN IN THE SKY (1959).
Hungarian comic strip, JUCIKA (1957-1970), by Pál Pusztai.
First edition cover (image 1) of Thea von Harbou’s METROPOLIS (1926) with art by Walter Riemann. And (image 2) the 1927 edition, with art by Aubrey Hammond.
Hergé’s original gouache cover drawing for Tintin adventure, THE BLUE LOTUS (1936), and its inspiration, a promotional image for DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON (1931), starring Anna May Wong.
Art by Georges Méliès for A TRIP TO THE MOON (Le Voyage dans la Lune), 1902.
Ray Harryhausen drawings for the 1966 fantasy movie, One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch.
Vintage MAD and CRAZY covers featuring STAR WARS.
A gallery of vintage Hanna-Barbera title cards.
Underwater spider species, Desis bobmarleyi.
(Photo by Robert Raven.)
THE MYSTERY OF MICKEY’S EARS REVEALED, by Disney animator, Ward Kimball.
The Atlantic magazine prop that briefly appears in the “press craze” segment in GHOSTBUSTERS (1984). (In GHOSTBUSTERS II, the framed copy can be seen on the wall in Peter’s office.)
Art by Randy Enos.
Concepts by Mark Ryden for the album cover of Michael Jackson’s DANGEROUS (1991); and the finished cover for reference.
Illustrations from Dante Alighieri’s THE DIVINE COMEDY by Salvador Dalí (1963-4).