Earlier this week, I was amused to find that H. P. Lovecraft’s horror short story “The Call of Cthulhu” had been rendered in cartoon form, copying the style of Dr. Seuss, by an enterprising artist. An article at Gizmodo discussed the project. Here are a couple of sample pages.
The book is also available on Amazon.com. It’s a fun read, and (dare I say it?) an antidote to much of the schlock inflicted on us during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.
Enjoy!
Not much for the other tunes, but this one amuse me:
Carol of the Old Ones, Christmas at Ground Zero, and Wizards in Winter are holiday songs I am fond of.
LOL, that is an interesting twist!
My favorite Cthulhu-related song is probably “What Do You Do With an Innsmouth Sailor?”
or better:
I got a few thumbs up at Day Job when, after being asked who I planned to vote for, I said I was getting a “Cthulu for President” bumper sticker. To go with my “Yellowstone Volcano/ SMOD 2020” sticker.
You’ll never go wrong with the Tar/Feathers ticket in any future elections….
Well, there is Hello, Cthulhu.
Speaking of Dr. Seuss,
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2020/10/allen-oh-the-racist-we-support
The tl;dr version is, Dr. Seuss was RAYCISS because during the war he drew propaganda cartoons depicting the nation’s enemies in a bad light. If you like Dr. Seuss you are a bad person and should feel bad. Dr. Seuss was Not PC and will have to go down the Memory Hole. Anyone who objects is RAYCISS. Yes, really. Yes, he is serious.
Yes, he is serious . . . and blind to historical reality. There are too many like that these days. *Sigh*
I’ve heard that one too. It’s especially ironic because before and during WW2, Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss was the editorial cartoonist for Punch magazine — an explicitly left-wing, pro-Soviet publication. I have a book that’s a collection of his wartime cartoons. There isn’t anything especially “racist” about them. Yeah, he was incredibly nasty to the Japanese, but he was just as nasty to the (white) Nazis.
Most of the Woke have never heard of Seuss’s “Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.” Let’s keep it that way.
I did Cthulhu vs. Bolo in my “Demon Slayers” book. The squid came up short, let’s just say. Eldritch horror wasn’t up to megatons per second.
IIRC, there are a few of these books. My Friendly Local Game Store has had them in the past. My vague recollection is that there’s one for Innsmouth, and possibly one or two more that I’ve seen.
I used to read my sons “A Child’s Christmas in Innsmouth” every Christmas Eve.
There is always the rather elderly but still delightful Tales of the Plush Cthulhu (http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html)