Trailer Trash

The actress Christina Rene Hendricks by the celebrity portraitist Sheryl Nields for Esquire September 2009. Hendricks is best known for her role as Joan Holloway in the television series Mad Men, but here she is shown as a kind of white trailer trash. Probably Nields loved the contrast of this glamorous Retro Marilyn with decay.

Romantic View of Atlantis

Atlantis (1973) by Frank Frazetta. A nice modern fantasy interpretation of traditional romantic painting.

Angelina Jolie's First

Cyborg 2 is a 1993 science fiction film and the first with Angelina Jolie in a starring role. She plays there Casella "Cash" Reese a top-of-the-line cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. Casella is programmed to mimic human senses and emotions such as fear, love, pain and hatred.

Post Apocalyptic Smokers

I love these post apocalyptic chicks by Brian Viveros, kind of profoundly sad but always with Marlboros dangling from their lips. Probably some lone survivors from the last Zombie war or something like that.

Comic: 28 Days Later

28 Days Later is a comic book series written by Michael Alan Nelson and drawn by Declan Shalvey and Alejandro Aragon. It’s based on the British horror film 28 Days Later (2002) and follows the events of this film before it’s sequel 28 Weeks Later.

Great Britain and Europe are devastated by the Rage Virus, which turns people into Zombies. So despite it’s another interpretation of the very popular subject, it’s a very appealing and well done comic series which stands out a lot against the normal zombie stuff.

Deathend Browser Game

These days theirs is a new browser game called Deathend on the web. In post apocalyptic ruins you have to kill hordes of mutants.
Sounds kind of boring, but anyway to me it underlines once again that post apocalyptic ruins made some of the most popular sceneries for games.

Airy Contrasts

Some time ago I discovered in an abandoned factory in Barcelona some artwork of the Brazilian artist Rodrigo Villas. Some colourful graffitis on the walls and above all the little birds, for which he’s probably best known.


These little bird sculptures provide a light, floating contrast to all the rotting concrete.

Battle Circle

Here some cover versions of the science fiction trilogy "Battle Circle" by Piers Anthony. The covers are by the British artist Patrick Woodroffe.

In an post-apocalyptic world people settle their conflicts with highly ritualized combat in a so called "battle circle". Each warrior wears as second name the weapon he wields. And so the books are name after their protagonists:

Sos the Rope (1968)

Var the Stick (1972)

Neq the Sword (1975)

It’s good old thrilling action stuff, like those novels were in these times paving the way for the Road Warrior and others to come.

FreakAngels 5

The great webcomic FreakAngels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield is still going on. Volume 5 is in the stores now for everyone who wants it printed. I like especially this mixture of steampunk and decay in partly flooded London.

Gothic Tradition

Some covers of juvenile thriller and mystery novels by the American illustrator Charles Geer. Ruins are used here in the British gothic tradition as icons of mystery, suspense and horror.