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Grimly Fiendish

I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for old sketches that would have worked out for a Monkey & Bird idea, but of course, I got sidetracked. This is a drawing of a pair of ghouls as envisioned for a … Continue reading

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Lady Frankenstein or Tina Makes a Monster!

This image is part of the regular website at willceau.com, but I wanted to drag it back out again; dust it off; put it on display and talk a little about it. Tina created this back in the ’90s and … Continue reading

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Demon

Another demon/gargoyle from my sketchbook drawn during the mid-’80s. Once again, I think this is when Dan Platt and I were hanging out and shooting the breeze about monsters. I think this was another attempt at the Jersey Devil, but … Continue reading

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Zombie

What is the deal with Zombies? I loved them in the original Dawn of the Dead, started to grow tired of them with the shlocky, chunk blowing excesses of Lucio Fulci, and figured the genre was played out by the … Continue reading

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The Fried Shrimp Lady or Just Some Doodles from 1985

While perusing Flickr, I came across the fabulous photos posted by olga-saglo. She posted images from "Carnival of Blood" which I remember seeing years ago on a low-rent local cable channel. I remembered doodling the "Fried Shrimp Lady" while watching … Continue reading

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1985 or Back to the Future

1985 was one hell of a year. I had graduated PCA, and the world was my oyster. During that school year I had met and befriended one of the most talented, energetic and probably the nicest guy I know – … Continue reading

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It Came from the Sketchbook!

I was thinking of formalizing the posts to Willceau Illo News by making regular features. I want to make Monday It Came From The Sketchbook day and post some doodles Tina or I made in a sketchbook and forgot about. … Continue reading

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All The Kids Are Doing It

Today it’s branding, piercing and tattoos, tomorrow it will be gene splicing with nonhuman DNA and cybernetic augmentation. Although your friend is really good with tools, it would probably be a mistake to let him implant that new digital olfactory … Continue reading

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The Joisey Debbil

This was a sketch I did in a sketchbook using my former weapon of choice way back in 1986. I was hanging out with Dan Platt who was trying to visualize the legendary Jersey Devil in clay. He kept reading … Continue reading

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