Pickman’s Model

A comic-book adaption of the classic horror tale, released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. «Richard Upton Pickman, the greatest artist I have ever known-and the foulest being that ever leaped the bounds of life into the pits of myth and madness» Pickman, painter of grotesque masterpieces too horrible to imagine, disappears without a trace. His last friend among the living recounts their fateful trip to Pickman’s secret studio in Boston’s run-down North End. In his classic tale «Pickman’s Model», grand master and grandfather of the modern horror-tale H.P. Lovecraft lets his characters delve into the darkest nature of weird art. Though faithful to both Lovecraft’s text and spirit, cartoonist Kim Holm’s art argues for a vastly different take on horrific art. In grim brush-strokes and ink-spatters, the art dissolves from cartoony realism into nightmarish expressionism as Pickman leads the unknowing art-lover down into his cellar studio, down into the depths of horror.