November 2010 Articles (77)

With the wind at our backs and the spirit of adventure in our hearts, Dieselpunks is proud to present The Grey Griffins Scavenger Hunt. Created by JS Lewis and Derek Benz, Grey Griffins is a steampunk adventure novel mixing equal parts Hellboy with Harry Potter that fans of Leviathan and Boneshaker will love. To promote the newest book in the Grey Griffins series, we're offering our loyal members a free autographed copy along with a poster pack for…

Welcome to Two Fisted Tuesdays, Dieselpunks' weekly beat on the mean streets.

Starring Gerald Mohr and starting with the famous lines, "Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave." The Adventures of Philip Marlowe runs about 25 minutes without commercials. You can listen to this blast from the past in MP3 format for free at the link below.…

Abram Games, whose real name was Abraham Gamse, was born in Whitechapel, London, in 1914.

His father, Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, changed the family name to Games. For a while Abram Games attended St Martins School of Art in London but, disillusioned by the style of teaching and deterred by the high tuition fees, Abram Games soon left the art school. From 1932 until 1936, Abram Games worked…

Lights out, everybody.

On Miskatonic Mondays, we celebrate the "weird" fiction of HP Lovecraft and the genre of otherworldly horror that it spawned.

This week, we're showcasing the strange works of artist Murray Groat. While his gallery is full of the surreal and sometimes comical, I was most excited to see his fabulous mashup of Hergé's boy-adventurer TinTin stumbling into the world of HP Lovecraft. His beautiful pieces can be seen below.…

Look at this poster. Do you see a strange object under the flag?

What's it - a Shinkansen? No, this poster was printed almost three decades before the first Bullet Train, in 1937. The object represents a streamline narrow-gauge steam locomotive No. 5343. It belonged to quite unremarkable C53 class of Japanese…

Welcome to the Killer Serials on Dieselpunks.

Killer Serials is our segment on Dieselpunks for showcasing cliffhangers and serial thrillers from Hollywood's golden age.

In November 1915, the walls of Paris were plastered with street posters that depicted three masked faces with a question mark as a noose, and the questions "who, what, when, where?"

The morning newspapers printed the following poem:

Of the moonless…

The time is the late 30's, the place is somewhere in South America... yes, some sort of Latino-style Diesel City.