Sunday, February 24, 2008

UVoD Figures!

I recently did a whole troop of the characters from Goomi's Unspeakable Vault of Doom, a web comic taking a lighter, yet still adorably morbid, look at the characters from H. P. Lovecraft's writings. Check it out! Hilarious stuff--and read the weblog and check out the other fan art.

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/vault251.html

These vary but are around 5" tall, done in ceramics, and various sorts of underglaze washes to add some strange mottling effects (though Yogzotot is stronger coats and then white underglaze over it) and then quite a few of them have white highlights.


I am considering putting some of these on sale at my online shop. I may make articulated dolls of these characters and others...depending how things go...and as always, I'd love to do an installation. These are approved by Goomi and a portion of the sales go to him, so this is totally on the level.






Cthulhoo, big, angry, likes to eat folks, surrounded by delicious cultists--Yum Yum!
Nyarly, cynical, more of a hands on evil god...
Dagoon, he's sorta dumb, but at least he lives under water. He is highly revered by the deep ones, that are also dumb and live under the water. Birds of a feather... Comes with handy monolith...no idea why...I think it's like a security blanket--security monolith? Fish folks find rocks cuddly...I guess...
Shubby, she's fuzzy, has horns, and numerous progeny.
Shoggies, numerous eyes, mouths, and blobby selves, and are...gross and really dumb...and yet...so cooooooool!
Tindaloo, a hound, a companion, a slight dimensional snafu. Also: hates curves.
Ygo, small, crude, grayish, and a mouth on each hand... Like the beach boy song: Two mouths for every Ygo! Though...I would not like to hear the version for the shoggies... or really most shoggy related things.
Zathoth, giant, cosmic, powerful, and vastly stupid. Favorite song: G! Favorite movie: G! Favorite show: G! Favorite shape: Horrid.
Yogzotot, the gate, the key, and a great many other things. But not soap!
He is called many things, because you can't say his name--or else your head will go sbloorsch. "This is your brain, this is your brain on Lovecraft--SBLOOORSCH!!!"

1 comment:

Stopped Clock said...

Poor Yog, I think Goomi realized with the first appearance that Yog's main role in the strip was to be the butt of many jokes.

I love this strip and I love these figurines.

Do you happen to know why Goomi alters the names of all the characters in the strip? Is it a copyright issue?