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6.26.08 Madame Talbot & the Mutter Museum I received an email from the Mutter Museum the other day and was very pleased to read that they want to carry a few of my posters and some of my other hand-made items in their gift shop. I will make a bunch of stuff for them, and post the ones I don't send to the museum on my website. As of this writing, I have nine (!!) posters all penciled and ready to ink. I always think I am about ready to begin inking but then I come up with another idea and have to draw it out. I need to do at least two or so more posters (draw them out) and then being inking. Dolls are coming along quite nicely, I have seven Plague Doctors' bodies almost done, then I will move on to the creep-assed china doll series I am working on. The book is being worked on each and every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I am happily making much progress on the book with this new schedule i.e. Book: weekends, Dolls and Posters, alternating weeks. 6.08.08 Madame Talbot's Tattoos, Dolls, Logos I just finished a bunch of freelance jobs and thought I would go ahead and post them. 
Here is a MOM tattoo that I designed for someone who said that this was going to be his first tattoo! 
This is a set of three logos I designed - all pen-and-ink, all by hand. 
And I was commissioned to make two stump skull dolls for a horror movie, and I got on a roll and ended up making five. The first two are the ones that sold, and the remaining three dolls will go up on the web site around October with the rest of this years batch. Right now, I am taking the week-end off and working on the book, next week I start inking posters I have already penciled, and working on my Mourning dolls. 5.24.08 Madame Talbot's Newest Framed Curio Exhibits I just finished this years last batch of Framed Curio Exhibits - Click Here! 
The list of the curios are as follows: Witches Toad in 18th century box, Cramp Ring on Skeleton Hand, A REAL Human Shrunken Head, Anomalies and Curiosities, Collections of Superstitions and Folklore, Till Death (my favorite and will have a very hard time selling it), Human Skull Cap and it's medicinal uses, Poison Curio (with crossed human fibula bones), Charms Against Vampires (with taxidermied bat), Egyptian Mummy Assemblage (mummy fabric, bitumen and real mummy bones), Bone Food (bone marrow and marrow scoop spoon), "Bawdy Bird" the Witches Bird (another taxidermied bat), 3 Real honest-to-god vintage taxidermied Monkey Paw's sealed in Victorian wooden and glass cases, A Cure for Phantom Limb (using a human toe bone as the cure), and a Human Wedding Skull in vintage red velvet box. That is all for this year, from now until October/November, it is work on dolls, posters and my book. 5.24.08 Madame Talbot article in Voices from the Vaults I received in the mail today a lovely surprise! 
Nice coincidence is the fact that Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi) grew up only a few block from where I am living right now! Judging by the locale, I would say it was quite fitting actually! The magazine is published by The Dracula Society which is located in the UK and was written by the very uber-talented Claudia Andrei (she also writes for Fortean Times! Color me impressed!). You can read the article below by just clicking on the pictures. 
I also received a lovely email from Jennifer who sent me some pictures of my Absinthe Poster framed and hanging on her wall! This just tickles me to no end when I get to see my posters framed and hanging up! 
Next posting: Newest Framed Curios! 5.04.08 Madame Talbot BPAL Ads and Madame Talbot Interview I received three magazines in the mail the other day. 
The first two magazines has to do with the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab ads that I illustrated for them. One of the ads has ran thus far in two magazines, Shojo Beat and Weird Tales. Here is a photo of the ad that ran: 
I really like the embellishments they added to it, giving it a definite old feeling to it. The next magazine (which just hit the stands) has a really great interview I did a few months ago for Girls and Corpses Magazine. Below is a photo of the cover (hee hee! They call me "Merchant of Death!" How appropriate!). 
The interview really turned out great, the magazine (one of my current all-time favorite reads, by the way) and there are four pages, with lush photos of my work. I couldn't be more pleased! To get your own copy of Girls and Corpses Magazine, just click HERE and tell them Madame Talbot sent you. As of this writing, I am finishing up around 14 or 15 of the last of the Framed Curio Exhibits for this year, and should be finished in about two weeks. I will post here when they are completed. Then I will be jumping into finishing up the posters and get them ready for the printer, and of course, the newest batch of dolls. I bought a laptop cooler and new mouse for Matilda (my laptop) and am gearing up for some heavy writing on my book in a few weeks, I have thus far made a nice dent, and am pretty happy with how far I have gotten, considering how intimidating it all can be. All is good. 4.18.08 Madame Talbot & Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab hired me to do illustration work for their newest line of their most outstanding prodcuts. Below here are the results:      And while you are there, make sure to buy some of their amazing products! 4.7.08 Madame Talbot Tattoo News I received a rather incredible photo in my email box the other day from Jeff Y. who lives in the great state of Tennessee. Here is the photo: 
Jeff wrote: "I'm such a fan of Madame Talbot's work (I've bought 4 posters - so far), that I decided to transfer the artwork...to my body. I had the artist put it on my back EXACTLY as it is from the poster. I would never think to alter such unique artwork. It took around 16 hours and the pic was taken right after it was completed. The redness will go away and the detail will show up much better when it heals. I just wish my tattoo artist had told me to pull my pants up a little before he took the picture-haha. Anyway, I just thought I would pass the pic along to you to let you know how much I really loved the artwork. It will be on my body for the rest of my life. Thank you." And here is the poster below! 
The extremely talented artist who did this amazing tattoo is the one and only John Cothran. His shop American Ink is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. What an amazing honor, I want to thank both Jeff and John for doing this, it really made my day! In other news, I will be making a few more framed curio exhibits, and my bisque doll parts showed up today so I can literally start making dolls. I have five posters already penciled, and ready to ink. I usually crank out penciled posters until I am just exhausted with penciling, and then move onto the inking part (my most favorite part of making posters, is the inking.) I hope to have 12 new posters ready for the printer, but not for a few months yet. And yep, still working on the book, thus far I am very happy with how it is coming along. 4.7.08 Madame Talbot Astoria News I opened my mailbox yesterday and saw my newest issue of CUMTUX had arrived. CUMTUX is a little magazine that is put out by the Clatsop County Historical Society, of which I am a proud member. On the cover was VAMPIRA! 
And of course, I am wondering, why on earth is Vampira on the cover of CUMTUX? From the story, Maila Nurmi (born Maila Elizabeth Niemi), also known as "Vampira" the "Dragon Lady" had lived here in Astoria for quite a few years. During the 1940s while she was in high school, she nad her family lived just two blocks down the street from where I am living now. The apartment building (which is as beautiful as ever) is very gothic-cool looking. And amazingly, it is still an apartment building! What I found kind of funny, is that it is located less than a block from the Mortuary! How appropriate! For those who don't know who she was (she died January 10, 2008), she was the first to introduce horror films on late night tv. Her show was called, "The Vampira Show" and because of her legendary cult film performances, she is known as the "Mother of the Goth Subculture." And people often ask why I live here in Astoria. 3.17.08 Madame Talbot Gangster News My mother has been doing hard-core genealogy for over thirty years and she sent me an interesting bit of information regarding Pretty Boy Floyd. It seems that some of our "shirt-tail" relatives on my mother's by the name of the Bosteter, their farm was used as a hang-out for Pretty Boy Floyd and his gang. But! That's not all! There was also speculation that their daughter, Alice (age 16) was also MARRIED to Pretty Boy Floyd. 
Then a year later, seems my "shirt-tail" relative named Lee Bosteter was sentenced to prison for 15 years for killing a storekeeper during a robbery. Hmmmm. I had no idea we had "gangsters" in our family. 
But that's not all! When my dad was in the navy, he was stationed at Long Beach, California, and it was at the Nu Pike that my dad got three "old school" navy tattoos by the famous Bert Grimm. The Nu Pike at one time was the largest amusement park that went back to 1897. This was where Bert Grimm's World Famous Tattoo Shop was located, his address was #22 Chestnut Place. Bert Grimm's tattoo shop became the oldest continuously opperated tattoo parlor in the USA. Below is Bert Grimm's business card that was given to my father after he got tattooed by Bert Grimm (dad claimed it was Bert and not Ernie or Lou, because when he went back for his other two tattoos, he requested that Bert do his tattoos.) 
And as some folks know, Bert Grimm has claimed on more than one occassion that he tattooed Bonnie and Clyde (though the Bonnie part is still being researched) as well as Pretty Boy Floyd. Here is a great story from a woman named Sally who had gone to see Bert Grimm and got a tattoo by him, and the stories he told her while getting a tattoo. But what is even more amazing, is that I just found out that Bert Grimm had retired and was working out of his home in Seaside, Oregon. Seaside is about a 15 minute drive from where I am living now, and I had no idea that Bert Grimm is buried at Oceanview Cemetery in Warrenton, about 10 minutes from where I live. I cannot count how many times I have been to Oceanview cemetery. So it all kind of comes full circle, I guess. 3.16.08 Madame Talbot New Rubber Stamp Here is the updated brand new rubber stamp which will be stamped on the back of all Madame Talbot Posters. 
3.16.08 Madame Talbot Information A Notice to Collectors of Victorian Lowbrow and to the Public: Brennan Dalsgard Publishers begs to inform the public that certain unscrupulous parties, hoping to profit by the enviable reputation gained by Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow-themed posters, should regard such as a blatant imitation of Madame Talbot's hand-illustrated Victorian Lowbrow posters. Wishing to reap where they have not sown, please be aware of inferior product that is placed on the market as the genuine article. We hereby announce this in order that the public may not be imposed upon to purchase only mere facsimiles of Madame Talbot. Watch out for shameless shoddy imitiation product that has absolutely no new ideas or innovating concepts to add to the original and which are being marketed hoping to profit from the business model and intellectual property which Madame Talbot has created for herself and her company. Please make certain that the name www.MadameTalbot.com appears on every Victorian Lowbrow poster you buy. Otherwise, it is not genuine. |
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