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Snoopy as Cthulhu

David Pescovitz — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:32:14 +0000

Anna-Maria Jung's "Call of Snoophulhu," available as a print. (via Superpunch)

Hrii Cthulhu, Goka Font Ph'nglui!

Glenn Fleishman — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:50:20 +0000

Do you love nameless, creeping horrors in the deep? Unnaturally! Do you love fonts? Of course, you do. Thomas Phinney, a veteran type designer, is attempting an unholy union of the two by resurrecting the moldering corpse of three typefaces: Columbus, Columbus Initials, and American Italic. Columbus was used for all the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, in which Phinney played a hand (severed?), designing clues for "Masks of Nyarlathotep."

Back the project on Kickstarter for Phinney to create Cristoforo, modern renditions of these three fonts. Pledges at all but the lowest level come with licenses to use the fonts. Phinney's original work is terrific, and I have no doubt that he'll bring a sensitive hand to re-creating these classic faces.

Cristoforo: Victorian Cthulhu Fonts Revived [kickstarter.com]

Cthulhu ski mask

Xeni Jardin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:37:13 +0000

Ian J. Kahn of Lux Mentis, Antiquarian Booksellers, just received this hand-knit Cthulhu hat from his mother as a surprise gift.

Lovecraftian Tintin adventures

Rob Beschizza — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:08:15 +0000

I'd love to read the H.P. Lovecraft-Tintin crossovers behind the covers expertly painted by Murray Groat. UPDATE: Murray adds that these aren't for sale as Hergé/Moulinsart S.A.'s rights apply. "I am getting alot of print requests by email, which is nice, but I have to sadly tell each and everyone of them that I cannot."

Elder Spice

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:49:36 +0000

DungBeetleComics via jwz. Also: Is this The Bible?

If HP Lovecraft wrote C manuals

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:40:59 +0000

I can't say that it made me a better programmer, but this mashup of Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie's classic "The C Programming Language" with the elder horrors of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos has alerted me to the urgent problem of inadvertent dimensional rifts that may be opened through poor programming practice:

And yet I saw them in a limitless stream- flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating- sorting themselves inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. Their croaking, baying voices called out in the hideous language of the Old Ones:
void Rlyeh (int mene[], int wgah, int nagl) { int Ia, fhtagn; if (wgah>=nagl) return; swap (mene,wgah,(wgah+nagl)/2); fhtagn = wgah; for (Ia=wgah+1; Ia<=nagl; Ia++) if (mene[Ia] swap (mene,++fhtagn,Ia); swap (mene,wgah,fhtagn); Rlyeh (mene,wgah,fhtagn-1); Rlyeh (mene,fhtagn+1,nagl);
} // PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTHULHU!

The C Programming Language (via JWZ)

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