This painting of a nude Maghella is the uncensored, bare-breasted version of a painting by Averardo Ciriello that appeared (censored by means of painted-on bra and panties) on the cover of Italian fumetti magazine Maghella #109.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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Not of this earth
This artwork is called Picnic In The Park by artist retroroxi (aka roxanne). The artist’s caption is “Tina’s beau has an ulterior motive planned for this picnic.” Possibly of interest by the same artist: another artwork (Twisted) in which a nude woman is riding a large octopus.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
A most unusual experiment
This cartoon, captioned “Miss Strauss has graciously consented to a most unusual experiment…”, appears here with the credit “Cabaret 1956”. The reference is most likely to Cabaret magazine; you can see the covers to all 12 issues of the 1956 Cabaret here. An artist’s signature (“Troop”) is visible lower left, but more information on the cartoonist is not readily available. (Noted magazine illustrator Miriam Troop worked in that era, but her signature on this piece for Woman’s Day is quite different.)
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Tentacles on the beach
This artwork is captioned “Acidtester’s Safari Girl. Sex on the beach.” It is part of a series of about two dozen similar faux comics covers that can be best seen in this gallery. Part of this series (and additional related work) can be seen in the galleries for the Safari-Girl DeviantArt account. It would appear that the Safari-Girl account is in fact controlled by the artist called Acidtester. Evidence includes (1) the listing by “Safari-Girl” of “Acidtester” under “Favorite visual artist” in the DeviantArt profile; (2) a comment on the e-hentai.org gallery to the effect that “I remember this artist from an old quicksand forum. It’s AcidTester, Safari Girl is just his creation”; and (3) an Origins gallery with comments making it clear that the person posting as “Safari-Girl” is indeed the creator of the series, rather than (say) a more recent fan and imitator. Finally, the character in the DA Safari-Girl galleries is named Rebecca Longale, which overlaps with art featuring the same character sinking in quicksand, done in a similar style but identified as AcidTester’s work at awesomecore Quicksand (possibly the “old quicksand forum” referenced above.)
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Sex with Cthulhu spawn
Consistent with the visible watermarking, this artwork is by the artist greengriffin. The title is Guilty Pleasures. The monster depicted is (according to the artist’s tagging) an illithid, which are commonly called mind flayers. Mind flayers were created by Gary Cygax and appeared in the first (1977) edition of the Monster Manual for his Dungeons and Dragons game. Cygax once said of his inspiration: “The mind flayer I made up out of whole cloth using my imagination, but inspired by the cover of Brian Lumley’s novel in paperback edition, The Burrowers Beneath.” He’s referring to the first of Lumley’s Cthulhu Cycle Dieties novels, the 1974 Daw “yellow spine” paperback edition seen here with cover art by Tim Kirk.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Another Octo-girl
This tentacular beauty is the cropped and color-tweaked central portion of an artwork called Enrapture (oil and graphite on wood) by artist Audrey Kawasaki. (Her Wikipedia entry is here.)
According to the artist’s LiveJournal, the piece was part of her 2011 show Restlessly Still at the Merry Karnowski Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist also has a blog where she’s promoting her current work and shows.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
A reason to keep the windows closed
This artwork is called Shriek by digital artist Adrian Velez (Age-Velez on DeviantArt). The artist calls it a “revamp” of an earlier similar piece. The model for the work is identified by the artist as Manon Kelley.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Big gulp
This animated .gif consists of a few frames from the 2010 movie Sharktopus. According to Wikipedia, the movie features a half-shark, half-octopus creature commissioned by the U.S. Navy that escapes its creators to attack beach-goers in Puerto Vallarta. There’s a short poor-quality clip on YouTube featuring the bungee-jumping scene from which this .gif was excerpted. A few more Sharktopus .gifs may be seen in this Tumblr post.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Knight versus tentacle beast
This surprisingly modern image of tentacle ravishment is from an extremely rare collection of 40 illustrations first published in 1905 and entitled La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs. It was the work of Martin van Maële, and according to this Christies listing, fewer than 100 copies were published and it is almost impossible to find, although Wikipedia says a reprint edition was published by Déesse, Nanterre in 1980.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Repellents and Attractants
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These paired images are called Li’s Octobrachian Attractant and Dr Oh’s Octopodiform Deterrent. They are the work of artist Julia Lichty, who is known as Ghostfire on DeviantArt, and whose website is at the ghostfire.net URL watermarked on the images, lower right. Art prints of these faux-vintage faux-advertisements are available via Etsy. Related artworks include Dr. Oh’s Miracle Cures and the prelimary sketches for same.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.