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Vania Zouravliov - Darkest Fine Art from Russia Russia is definitely the most prolific country of Fucked Up Artists after Japan. And if Uno Moralez ’s random pixel art can be considered the equivalent of Japanese ero guro nansensu (“nonsensical erotic gore”), Vania Zouravliov delivers illustrations which are much more aligned with traditional ukiyo-e prints and classical fine art, with an outstanding blend of eastern and western vibes. Ivan Zouravliov (Vania is a diminuitive) was born in Russia in an artistic environment, his father being a painter and his mother an art teacher. He soon became an internationally recognized prodigy child, exhibiting since the age of 13. He relocated to the UK as an adult, first to study at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, finally to settle down in London. Some of his work was featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Duran Duran’s TV Mania album cover. His talent is incredible and well-recognised: he won the D&AD Y...

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an original sci-fi short story written by Harlan Ellison in 1966. It won the prestigious Hugo Award for science fiction two years later, and was adapted by the author himself into a point and click graphic adventure game with the same name in 1995, which largely increased the title’s popularity and is today still considered a cult classic of horror videogames. Warning: this review contains spoilers for both the short story and videogame The plot follows the misadventures of five tortured souls. The story is set a post-apocalyptic world in which the Cold War evolved into a world war between three major potencies - the US, Russia, and China - each of which created their own super-computer, or “ Allied Mastercomputer” (AM) . One of the computers soon gained sentience, absorbed the other two, and re-named itself AM (after “ cogito, ergo sum … I think, therefore I AM ”). Like most sentient beings, AM goes crazy and puts an end to ...

There's something about Japanese horror that you simply won't find elsewhere. It's not just creepy atmospheres, and jump scares, no mere ghost stories nor serial killers going on murder sprees - Japanese fucked up artists are craftmen of anxiety-inducing, spine-chilling combinations of psychological and body horror that will get to your head and hunt you at night when you try to sleep. Our list of top horror manga contains some of the scariest and creepiest titles from different artists and masters of horror such as Junji Ito . Let's dive in! Best Horror Manga 2020 | Top 5 Kiseijuu (Parasyte) by Hitoshi Iwaaki (1990) [ MyAnimeList | Ama z on ] There's a reason you will find Kiseijuu at the top of many horror manga lists : first released in 1990, it sold more than 11 million copies in Japan, won the Kodansha Manga Award for best general manga in 1993 and the Seiun Award for best manga of the year in 1996, while also ranking 14th as best manga of ...