Samara’s been running a blog since the start of the year, in semi-secret. She’s finally allowed me to mention it in public.
It’s called “Monster of the Week” (after the TV trope beginning with The X-Files) and its literally that. Every Thursday at 3pm, she’ll post a picture she’s drawn of a famous monster.
Highlights so far include the Cyclops from Jason and the Argonauts, the Bride of Frankenstein, Undersea Gal from The Nightmare Before Christmas (pictured above) and “dank and vile” Armus from Star Trek.
It’s great that she’s been quietly beavering away at this. Now, after a few months, the blog feels populated, towards encyclopaedic.
There are some real deep dives in there. Fiendish Feet yoghurts anyone? And what about Gritty, the mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers?
Each monster, if you give them a click, comes with an out-of-context description cribbed from Wikipedia or similar, usually with some entertaining links. The aforementioned Gritty’s description comes from a Philadelphia city council formal document in which they declare him “a fuzzy Eldrich horror.”