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Loren Rhoads's Blog
November 25, 2009
- Eleven years ago, Ohio native William Selby escaped writing for film, theater, and television (including the new Twilight Zone) in Hollywood. Transplanted to San Francisco, Bill currently plies his trade as a graphic designer. Six cockatiels, three budgies, and partner-in-crime Christine add zest, joy, and meaning to life. He is the author of Monté: King of Atom Age Monster Decals! to be ...
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November 24, 2009
- Wm. Rage can be found performing with the horror-noise band Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. He also runs the Enterruption label, promoting and releasing music and visual arts by underground bands and artists from around the world. He had one story in Morbid Curiosity magazine -- “Donating My Body to Science” -- which appeared in issue #6. It’s one of my favorite stories, because it ...
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November 23, 2009
- San Francisco-based Jill Tracy has garnered multiple awards and a devoted following for her evocative cinematic music, sophisticated lyrics, old-world glamour, and curious passion for strange tales. Her tune “Evil Night Together” was featured on the CBS TV show NAVY NCIS and on the BBC series Jekyll. Her film score work appears in The Black Dahlia. Her newest album is called “The ...
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November 22, 2009
- Illustrator Jim Wiz came late to the magazine, providing ten illustrations for the final three issues of Morbid Curiosity magazine. One of his pieces from the last issue appears on a t-shirt and a journal at the Morbid Curiosity Café Press shop (http://www.cafepress.com/morbidzine).Q: Jim, what does morbid curiosity mean to you? A: From the time we are children, we are taught not to ...
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November 21, 2009
- Erik Quarry is a Gothic/Macabre artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His interests lie in the decadence of doom, death, and darkness, which his art reflects in a light-hearted style. Halloween, Danse Macabre, and Victorian themes abound in his artwork. Fascinated by El Día de los Muertos, Erik is a member of the Association ...
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November 20, 2009
- Suzanne Dechnik worked first in advertising and then for several comic book companies. She finished her art degree at OSU and is now making public sculpture while following her true calling: necromantic art. She showed lots of work at the Westgate Gallery in New Orleans before Katrina put the kibosh on that.The bulk of Suzanne’s work as published in Morbid Curiosity dissected her relationship ...
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November 19, 2009
- Mike Hunter’s particular interests are anthropology, science, spirituality, Surrealist art, and comics. These factors frequently blend in his personal artwork. By day, he has worked as a graphic designer for close to thirty years. For the magazine, he created custom-made collages of torture machines, vivisection labs, medical anomalies, and police oppression. He provided 30 meticulous ...
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November 18, 2009
- Kimberlee Traub provided the most illustrations for Morbid Curiosity: 37 over the course of the magazine. Her work spanned from the cipher collage of “This is the Zodiac” to the high romanticism of “Death Carries Off Another Victim.” Victoriana, Art Nouveau, Neo-Burlesque, tribalism, and ancient mythology all influence Kimberlee’s rapidograph pen & ink creations. Presently she ...
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November 17, 2009
- Artist and musician Timothy Renner worked with Loren on her earlier book, Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries. Tim’s depiction of the girl lifting up her skin to reveal her skeleton -- an unused design for The Process -- became an icon of Morbid Curiosity magazine, serving to illustrate issue #2 as well as advertisements, calls for submissions, invitations to open mics, and the ...
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November 16, 2009
- Artist and writer M. Parfitt has been “throwing stuff together” all her life. Her mixed-media work incorporates fabric, paper, blood, hair, lint, nails and other unexpected materials. She has exhibited her collages and assemblages in over fifty shows since 1985, in galleries all over the United States. Her nonfiction essays also feature the unexpected: a toy box filled with garbage, a ...
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November 14, 2009
- This morning's interview is the last until Monday, when I'll start to feature the artists of Morbid Curiosity.In the meantime, I'm headed up to Seattle. Tonight at 7, I'll be speaking at Elliott Bay Book Company, one of my favorite bookstores in all the world. I plan to discuss the humble beginnings of Morbid Curiosity, as well as its transition to a book by a big New York publisher. Please ...
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November 14, 2009
- Kimberly Poeppey-Del Rio is an antique dealer and paranormal investigator from Milwaukee. Some of her sightings have been published in the books Hunting the American Werewolf by Linda Godfrey (Trails Media Group, 2006), Weird Wisconsin by Linda Godfrey and Richard Hendricks (Sterling, 2005), and in Loren Coleman’s revised edition of Mysterious America: the Ultimate Guide to the ...
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November 13, 2009
- Brian Thomas’s writing appeared in almost every Automatism Press publication, including Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect and Death's Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries. In the pages of Morbid Curiosity, he buried a cat, visited the Black Virgin in Poland, worked with a human skeleton that he didn’t know was real, slept in a casket, and bought a severed head in Venezuela. His story ...
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November 12, 2009
- Jessica Eisner graduated with Honors from the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. She has worked and traveled throughout much of Asia, Europe, and Ecuador, where she researched Amazonian culture for a new book. In 2004, Dr. Eisner wrote and directed Muffin Man, a morbid and uncomfortably hilarious mockumentary about the obesity epidemic and social dysfunction that lead to ...
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November 11, 2009
- Simon Wood is an ex-racecar driver, a licensed pilot, and an occasional private investigator. He’s had over 150 stories and articles published. He’s a frequent contributor to Writer’s Digest and is the Anthony Award-winning author of Working Stiffs, Accidents Waiting to Happen, Paying the Piper, and We All Fall Down. Simon wrote about falling off a mountainside for Morbid Curiosity #8, ...
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