Robert Ball

Do you dig graves?

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Mercer Mayer's perfectly autumnal book cover design for The Figure in The Shadows by John Bellairs.

My book covers are cowboy towns. When a client asks for layered files there's nothing behind the windows. The sky has building shaped holes in it.

Sekforde Street, London EC1R Bear with cub and cat with kitten door knockers #reference #materialreference #propreference

Avril (Les anémones), 1891 by Maurice Denis

Complaining about Christmas adverts gets earlier each year

I think Mrs Elswood has had ‘work done’

EVERY AGE GETS THE DRACULA IT NEEDS 3 of the best covers #31daysofHalloween Penguin, 1979, shows Dracula the #vampire escaping his coffin; Modern Library edition, 1932, shows the Count as a member of high society; Constable, 1916, #Dracula as a bat-like creature scaling the walls of his castle

Window Winter Night, 2026 by Nicholas James Harris

Managed to install a Photoshop plug in and now I feel like Tron

Open door. The Book Tour: A Lack of Alibi out October 6th from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social

Cleaning folders, I found this collab with my sister that I still enjoy. We should make whole comic like this :D (this cover was commissioned by a friend :D )

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In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.

Maggie Cheung. Born on this day in 1964.

Pleading for the Child https://collections.artsmia.org/art/127703/

Woman with a Sewing Machine http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-woman-with-a-sewing-machine-p13001

The menhir of La Tiemblais in St-Samson-sur-Rance (Côtes-d’Armor) lies at angle of 45 degrees due to excavations by C19 treasure seekers; if upright it would be 7m tall. One of several traditions is that it blocked 1 of 3 entrances to Hell. Card by Rouxel in Dinan c.1905.

Referees have always been inherently comedic figures. The more technical and po-faced the VAR inquisition becomes the funnier it gets.

What satanic pact does Andre Rieu have with Sky Arts?

I have finally finished Red Dead Redemption 2 and can bid fond farewell to my three horses Stepladder, Crabsticks and Very Gary

Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)

Evaporated Islands & Diluted Reservoirs ongoing series

With the new release of Hammer’s classic Dracula this week, what better time to pick up issue 1 of @claretzine.bsky.social. With features on all of the Hammer Dracula films. claretzine.com/shop

I saw The Odyssey yesterday and it reminded me of Slaughterhouse Five though it must be the other way round

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is an enchanting piece of music if you like to imagine your toys coming to life and murdering you with their tiny implacable hands.

I also watched the Legend of Hell House (1973) lovely Roddy McDowell in some belting hokum about a short arse ghost.

My favourite superhero film

I was in the mood for a horror film so I watched Bring Her Back and wasn’t prepared for it being quite so visceral

amazing

Looking forward to being chased about by some giant rhubarb after the solar eclipse later

Whenever I’m on social media and wonder what this Nick Cave quote is, the answer is always it’s the one about the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Helene Appel www.instagram.com/hel_appel/

Skye landscape

24 years late I watched Morvern Callar, it’s exactly my kind of film.

Close enough