Cthulhu on a Post-It Note and John Kenn's Other Horrors

Danish artist John Kenn draws many weird monsters. His style reflects a merger between Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, and other fantastically odd influences. However, it's his medium of choice for his sketches that's really unique. Kenn does all his intricate and monstrous workings on Post-It notes. Naturally, he has done a Post-It note Cthulhu, betraying H.P. Lovecraft's influence on his work, and adapting the Providence writer's most famous entity to office supplies. One can't be sure, but this has probably never been done before...or at least not this well.

Kenn's Blogspot gallery hosts other works with flailing tentacles, ghostly horrors, and well camouflaged beasts in nature. His forest monsters, complete with trees and grass sprouting from their wide mouthed heads, indicate another influence straight from weird fiction. Algernon Blackwood readers can observe glimpses of the immense, powerful, and mysterious Nature that almost all of Blackwood's tales conveyed. Perhaps this is wishful thinking and Keen hasn't read Blackwood at all, but if not, they remain kindred spirits in their depictions of an overwhelming and frightening Nature.

Kenn once again proves that a sharp aesthetic eye is needed for successful visual manifestations of the weird. But his Post-It Note horrors also demonstrate a way open to any Lovecraftian or weird artist. With enough motivation, truly weird terrors can come through on any medium, even the cheap and ubiquitous ones, not just on expensive canvas and marble.

-Grim Blogger