Japanese whirlwind demon. I could not find the name of the artist but I am guessing that the red kanji is a signature. These invisible demons employ their sickle claws to do their thing. Pretty malevolent, if you ask me. If anybody has invisible flying bloodthirsty slasher weasels it would be the Japanese. This vicious fellow is by Xatchett off DeviantArt. https://www.deviantart.com/xatchett These yokai ride dustdevils and whirlwinds and slash up the unwary, while drawing no blood. In the 1890's there was a rash of these attacks. Some anime. https://youtu.be/sxC-g5sCWXk The whirlwind thing seems to be a big part of all this. Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosea, 1969. And another. This is the photographer who took the dynamic black and white pictures of Yukio Mishima I had posted in an earlier essay. The model in this series, Kamaitachi, is a famous avant-garde dancer, Tatsumi H
First time I've ever seen beyond the cover of a Super Duck comic. I had no idea that Dan Gordon drew this -- or that he could draw such cute duck girls!
ReplyDeleteThere were a number of artists doing this, I just chose the Gordon picture cause I like him so much. Seems like a pretty lame comic.
ReplyDeleteI think Dan Gordon is the best classic comic artist there was!
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