When io9 found last week ( felicitous one calendar week day of remembrance , everybody ! ) many remarked about how gorgeous our logo is . Now you could meet the woman behind that logo . She’sEliza Gauger : artist , comic Bible Maker , blogger , videogame geek , and monster - lover . We ’ve got an exclusive interview with the three - head lady herself , plus a gallery of her dreamy crawlies to make your morning just a little number more surreal .
What are your skill fiction influences ?
My Father of the Church is Rick Gauger , source of Charon ’s Ark and The Vacuum - Packed Picnic ( which won a Nebula , if I am not mistaken ) . He read Jack Vance novels to me as bedtime stories , and the intense beauty and strangeness , and the humour , splatted right into waiting neuronal sensory receptor . So I grow up sneaking all sorting of eld - inappropriate stuff off his ledge . Moebius , DEN , Vaughn Bode , Heavy Metal , oldschool Judge Dredd , stuff and nonsense like that . Seeing Blade Runner ’s film director ’s cut in theater when I was about ten was , I ’m sure , an intensely formative experience . In my straits , that grungy , atomic number 10 metropolis became shangri - la . i ’ve been seeking it ever since . When I was twelve or thirteen I was briefly obsess with the X - Files and The Fifth Element . In the latter case , I think I was sniffing out the Moebius designs and the Gaultier couture , so despite it really being a tremendous film in most respects , it laid eggs in my skull . Jurassic Park was also a handsome influence on me , too . I get it on love monster in universal , and dinosaurs in specific .
I would also wish to tot Red Dwarf to my clutch of early influence , as well as Invader Zim . The latter take me totally by surprise .
What do you hope never to see again in science fiction art ?
Hackneyed talks , Hollywoodisms , and “ hot ” mass . By Hollywoodism , I have in mind all of the following :
1 . Super - badass fomite / gun / public-service corporation is exhibit . character says : “ I fetch ta get me one a deez ! ”
2 . Will Smith say , AW HELL NAWWW
3 . Camera zooms in on badass sub , who says something about it being showtime , or possibly clock time for asskicking , or any number of four - word sentences that make ten class old vibrate with awe .
As for “ hot masses , ” I am timeworn of pretty , in - frame , unclothed heroes . Pretty people task the credibility budget , which is the finite amount of uncoerced pause of skepticism that can be expended by the audience before they embark on going “ that ’s ridiculous . ” Look at Aliens . Or any Cameron film from that epoch . If he had attractive women in his picture , and he did , they were n’t “ charwoman ” in the style that movies delimitate women : harpies , hags , or cretin . Scifi ditto . Ripley was not wearing any fucking mascara . She was a CHARACTER , she was n’t a GIRL . Ditto for everyone else . They were people before they were badasses , or killers , or half-wit . This is not a luxury in sci fi . It is a essential . Cookie carver eccentric are unconvincing , and in a wide context of unbelievable things happening ( aliens , lasers , spaceships , all imaginary ) , it is vitally of import for as much of the eternal rest of the software system to be well - developed and believable . Otherwise , you ware your credibility ( remember the budget ) on thing like how does the heroine keep her lip gloss so fresh in the eye of a reactor nuclear meltdown , or why our hero is endure in the centre of a bare hallway while shooting , instead of admit cover like the soldier he is speculate to be . This also applies to costumes . sheath in point in time , Kate Beckinsale is not going to kill any werewolves while endure a boned corset , no matter how mischievously fit it may be .
I have sex you have it away monsters . So what was the best monster of last class ?
That Pallid Man in Pan ’s Labyrinth was a victory of design and execution . I was grinning throughout the whole view . I ’m going to give ash grey medals to the Bouncer - type large Daddies in Bioshock , and GlaDOS from Portal . decent now I ’m unbelievably excited about Wall - E , Cloverfield , and Hellboy 2 . And Del Toro’sAt the Mountains of Madness .
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Do you ever draw Mi - Go , Shuggoths , or Old one ?
I do n’t do much fan art .
I have some octopus - point figures here and there , and I was inspired by Ranklechick and His Three - Legged Cat to take a go at two of the characters , but otherwise I feel deep shame when I ’m not working on my own design . I start to shake , and weep , and manducate at my anatomy .
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