Mexican Pulp Art

January 16, 2012 1:39 PM

Monster Brains' has posted its collection of cover art from Mexican horror magazines.
posted by gman (17 comments total)

I love how this one looks like the priest stumbled into some infernal household argument. Diablo dude is chewing out the succubus for leaving the hellgate open, she's sulking because she knows she's in the wrong but won't admit it; the hairy fella on the right is all 'why are mommy and daddy fighting? Is it because I just dropped food all over the floor?' And the tiny dude just says 'screw this noise, I'm going to the corner store to get some smokes.'
posted by FatherDagon at 1:48 PM on January 16, 2012 [3 favorites]

Thank you. These are incredible.
posted by Rinku at 1:48 PM on January 16, 2012

So these are apparently the inspiration for the paintings over Eli Cash's fireplace in The Royal Tenenbaums.
posted by resurrexit at 1:54 PM on January 16, 2012

Man, these rule so hard. What on earth?
posted by resurrexit at 1:56 PM on January 16, 2012

This is awesome.
posted by kaseijin at 2:29 PM on January 16, 2012

Nothing else in my RSS feed brightens my day quite as consistently as Monster Brains.
posted by Rustmouth Snakedrill at 2:33 PM on January 16, 2012

I'm going to assume this one is Hank Pym and the Wasp.

These are all totally awesome. I think my favorites are all the ones with robot. This one looks so sad! Like he's already regretting his part in overthrowing the era of human control. Menacing luchador is also pretty great.

(Award for Most Inexplicable goes to this one.)
posted by kagredon at 2:40 PM on January 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

This. Is. Amazing.
posted by The Whelk at 3:02 PM on January 16, 2012

Are these things I can buy and how can I buy them?
posted by Bookhouse at 3:43 PM on January 16, 2012

I own a book somewhere called Mexican Pulp Art - I recognize most if not all of these from there. A google image search for "mexican pulp art" confirms this. Many, many more where these crawled from. I recommend exploiting the google for this purpose.
posted by item at 4:12 PM on January 16, 2012

Yeah, Monster Brains is definitely one of my favourite blogs, period. Been at it for a long, long while now and still finding great new stuff all the time.
posted by stinkycheese at 4:51 PM on January 16, 2012

These are great! I may end up printing some of these for my new CRAZY MONSTER ROOM.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 6:07 PM on January 16, 2012

Damnable intertubes, stealing my evening away!
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 6:51 PM on January 16, 2012

No a las abejas!

Sorry.
posted by Minus215Cee at 9:47 PM on January 16, 2012

Man, these rule so hard. What on earth?

Zombie Nuns are an epidemic in Mexico, apparently. Be Vigilant, Parishioners!
posted by FatherDagon at 9:48 PM on January 16, 2012

I have to take back my earlier comment. The luchador's not trying to menace anybody; he just wants to be taken seriously for his mime work.
posted by kagredon at 11:05 PM on January 16, 2012

Sick.
Thanks!
posted by safetyfork at 4:50 AM on January 17, 2012