Vox of the Fox

Reblog if you’ll have some party spirit.  From Le Charivari, 1879.

Tempting: over 800 vintage devils.

I’m really excited to have been in @lightgreyartgallery’s last show, themed around death. I illustrated a Ci annwn: a hound of the wild hunt, specifically here from the Welsh tradition.

My new year’s wish for you: May your left hand catch a will-o’-the-wisp, may the bubble you’ve blown remain floating when you rest your pipe, and if you’re ever surrounded then may it be by tulips.  Our illustration is from the University of Wisconsin’s 1921 yearbook.

Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.

Phosphorescent lights floating at night: my modest collection of vintage will-o’-the-wisps.

From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).  (There’s a weird song about a will-o’-the-wisp in our video about how to write party invitations as horoscopes.)

Phosphorescent lights floating at night: my modest collection of vintage will-o’-the-wisps.

From Wizardry Monsters Manual.

Phosphorescent lights floating at night: my modest collection of vintage will-o’-the-wisps.

From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).

From Moving Picture World, 1920.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

From Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm, 1901.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

“The wolf grinned.“  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.

Share a grin with my collection of smiling and laughing animals.

From Loyola’s 1943 yearbook.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

From Tales of the Punjab by Flora Steel and illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, 1917.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

From Man Into Wolf by Robert Eisler.

Vintage wolfman / werewolf imagery.

From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.

From Wake Forest College’s 1922 yearbook.

Howl at my collection of vintage wolf imagery.