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Description I can't believe I've done this (especially since I'm the co-founder of Kaijuden), but I started my own DeviantART group based on my second favorite subject in the whole wide world; fantastical monsters!

My very first favorite subject in the whole wide world is, of course, a tie between sexy ladies and GIANT monsters of the Japanese movie variety.

Anyway, World Of Monsters is the group’s name, and although brand new with me still getting my bearings as its head editor, I hope for it to become a place where quality, original artwork based on monsters and other fantastical non-human characters can be gathered and shared.

And like any good DeviantART group, it needs a group icon / logo, and in this case a literal World of Monsters, as seen with this living planetoid and its single piercing eye.

This character design was heavily inspired by a beloved institution of my childhood – MonsterVision; a once-a-month, all night marathons of monster movies that TNT (Turner Network Television) would use to air.

And this was the very early age of MonsterVision, many years before cult movie critic Joe Bob Briggs became its weekly host, and when the program would open with a stop motion planetoid with a smirking face staring back at you.

The logo for World-of-Monsters is very much in that same vein as the ‘MonsterVision Planet’, though only more weird and sinister.

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Comments: 16

FearlessKaiju [2011-04-24 23:33:48 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap! I watched MonsterVision when I was a kid! I loved it!

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Enshohma In reply to FearlessKaiju [2011-06-04 08:39:35 +0000 UTC]

So did I, and even have some old VHS tapes from those marathons (some of them at least), and recently made DVD-R copies just to have around, even if I still own superior looking versions of said films elsewhere.

Oh, are you familiar with Turner Classic Movie's monster movie showings in Thursday all this month?

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FearlessKaiju In reply to Enshohma [2011-06-12 08:21:55 +0000 UTC]

I wish I would have done that. And no I was familiar with the showings, for I do not have cable. lol. But thank you anyways.

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CrazyFoxMoon [2011-01-01 01:17:54 +0000 UTC]

So cool! Sort of reminds me of Yivo....

Sorry... watched most of Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs last night.

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Enshohma In reply to CrazyFoxMoon [2011-01-05 08:44:35 +0000 UTC]

It's a good film, so I don't mind the comparison, though Yivo was an entire dimension technically, as opposed to my humble planetoid monster. And I prefer "Bender's Big Score" myself between the four "Futurama" films.

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CrazyFoxMoon In reply to Enshohma [2011-01-21 19:59:57 +0000 UTC]

You're right about Yivo, he was a dimension. That's the only one of the movies I've seen... and that was because I was stuck at the motel (again) and it was on whatever channel...

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drake-fighter-0127 [2010-12-22 18:55:01 +0000 UTC]

Nice homage to MonsterVision, loved it as well when I was young!

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Enshohma In reply to drake-fighter-0127 [2010-12-26 01:32:27 +0000 UTC]

Same here!

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drake-fighter-0127 In reply to Enshohma [2010-12-26 02:23:44 +0000 UTC]

Totally!

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KaijuDuke [2010-12-22 05:55:29 +0000 UTC]

You ever get that feeling you're being watched? XD

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Enshohma In reply to KaijuDuke [2010-12-27 01:22:26 +0000 UTC]

Always

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earthbaragon [2010-12-21 22:38:42 +0000 UTC]

Damn that is nice. Ya, before I even read your blog artist comment on this piece, I was like "monster vision!" Yeah, that is the first thing that freaking popped in my mind. Good old days of watching stuff like The Giant Claw, Giant Behemoth, and The Lost Continent (a realllllllllllllllly underrated Hammer film full of monsters of all shapes and sizes and such) Yep, those were the good old days. I remember The Monster that Challenged the World gave me nightmares that it would come up behind me and bite my head off Good stuff, good stuff. Makes me want to redo my Giant Leeches, Fiends, and Island of Terror piece for ya since I have moved beyond the whole (just use photo-shop to color a pencil sketch). Awesome work as always buddy. Keep the name of monsters alive with the fans. Going to have to educate people on the classics! (if one can really consider Attack of the Crab Monsters a classic )

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Enshohma In reply to earthbaragon [2010-12-29 07:23:15 +0000 UTC]

"Attack of the Crab Monsters" is very low budget, but it features Roger Corman's wacky and rather ambitious imagination at the time, which would lead to better projects from the 1960s-to-early-1980s. It's sad how this film gets a lot of flack, while Syfy original movies, "Monster-A-Go-Go", the boring "Santa Clause Conquers the Martians" and Jack Black's "Gulliver Travels" are given free passes, and even heartfelt defense from modern audiences.

MonsterVision was among MY golden age of monster and other fantasy movies on television, and introduced me to many lifelong favorites as well ("The Outer Limits", "Message from Space", "Mysterious Island", "Thunderbird 6", "The Time Machine", "Robinson Caruso on Mars", "Westworld", "The Green Slime", "The Twonky"), and although not an official icon, its nice to know I'm not the only one who remembers the MonsterVision smirking planet logo.

"The Monster that Challenged the World" is a cleaver little gem as well, which also gave me a jump scare as a little kid, when the dam operator was killed by the 'Kraken Sea Snail' at night.

There's also the bizarrely humorous climax, where the mother and child are fighting for their lives, trapped in the laboratory with the 'Kraken Sea Snail', while her military husband and the cynical scientist guy (Hans Conrad) drive causally back to the lab, with suspenseful talk about possibly stopping for a bite to eat.

Thanks goodness they never do, or the woman and child would have been dead meat!

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tastybedsore [2010-12-21 22:35:58 +0000 UTC]

SUPER AWESOME CREEPY WOW GO GO IN MY PANTS TIME WOW GO! (Sorry this pic is awesome and those were the first thing i could think of to say)

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Enshohma In reply to tastybedsore [2010-12-31 20:59:53 +0000 UTC]

No its cool...actually I'm surprised how well this picture ended up myself to be honest.

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Enshohma In reply to tastybedsore [2010-12-31 20:59:44 +0000 UTC]

No its cool...actually I'm surprised how well this picture ended up myself to be honest.

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