#tim jacobus

[goryhorroor]

put some respect on tim jacobus' name

#i met him at a con and he was the nicest person ever #goosebumps #horror art #horror #tim jacobus #art #halloween #r.l. stine

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔦𝔪 𝔍𝔞𝔠𝔬𝔟𝔲𝔰

#Tim Jacobus #art #paintings #painting #artworks #artwork #illustrations #illustration

[sandmandaddy69]

Tim Jacobus

#tim jacobus

[a-book-of-creatures]

Happy Easter weekend?

Confession: this cover used to scare me as a kid. It’s the colors and the warped perspective. It made me feel like I was peering into someone’s nightmare. And that’s before going into the melted hollow-eyed creature…

I never read a single book in the series, only stared at covers. :/

#eggs #easter #goosebumps #art #creepy #tim jacobus

[90smovies]

#Goosebumps #The Haunted Mask II #VHS #Tim Jacobus #R.L. Stine #R. L. Stine #R L Stine #RL Stine #90s

[brokehorrorfan]

Trick or Treat Studios has turned four classic Goosebumps books - Stay Out of the Basement, Night of the Living Dummy, The Haunted Mask, and Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns - into magnets.

Priced at $15, each one measures 4" high and 2.5" wide. They’re made of injection molded plastic with painted details and printed artwork by Tim Jacobus. They're expected to ship in September.

#goosebumps #the haunted mask #slappy the dummy #rl stine #r.l. stine #r l stine #r. l. stine #trick or treat studios #toy #gift #book #haunted mask #night of the living dummy #tim jacobus #fear street

[tomoleary]

Tim Jacobus

#tim jacobus

[magic-cityy]

Autograph illustration of “Night of the Living Dummy” from the reason why we have those stunning Goosebumps covers, Tim Jacobus. ☠️

#tim jacobus #goosebumps #night of the living dummy #slappy the dummy #rl stine #horror #scary #creepy #dark #horror autograph #horror art #classic horror #horror collection #horror collectibles #autograph #Stevie B

[mannyblacque]

Curse of Camp Cold Lake

by Tim Jacobus

#goosebumps #rl stine #tim jacobus #curse of camp cold lake #horror fiction #scary stories #horror art #halloween

[goryhorroor]

horror • illustrators

#some of the best #of horror art #horror #art #junji ito #basil gogos #stephen gammell #graham ingels #tim jacobus #bernie wrightson #mike mignola #jonny craig #brom #goosebumps #scary stories to tell in the dark #* #sorry if i missed any #h.r. gingers

[limesnlawnchairs]

Tim Jacobus artwork for More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, showing Curly the Skeleton telling stories to other skeletons around a campfire.

#goosebumps #more tales to give you goosebumps #tim jacobus #curly the skeleton #illustration #skeleton #full moon #camping

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#goosebumps #Jim Thiesen #Tim Jacobus #hand #art #artwork #monster #painting #Swamp Thing

[sandmandaddy69]

Tim Jacobus

#tim jacobus #goosebumps

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for March 18th. It's an Animorph. The Animorphs book series is infamous for its creepy covers. I know the series was pretty popular, but I've always felt those covers were a real turn-off which kept me from even trying out the series. I was a Goosebumps guy, first and foremost.

Of course nostalgic fans now say Animorphs was a better series. More mature and better written, with a more interesting plot which evolved from book to book. And with more didatic elements.

And if the covers were creepy, that's cause the writing inside them was creepy too. The description of the morphing scenes were pretty gross, and there was a lot of heavy stuff going on. For instance, this passage from book 5:

"I saw Rachel, too. She had a dark look in her eyes. Like she hadn’t slept. Like something was really wrong.

Even Cassie seemed grim. It had gotten to all of us. It’s not so easy to just forget terror. It’s not easy to just ignore the memory of your leg being ripped off.

Of being dismembered. Torn apart.

One of these days, I thought, one of us is going to go crazy. Totally, lock-me-up-in-a-rubber-room nutso. It was too much. This wasn’t how life was supposed to be.

One of us would snap. One of us would lose it. It could happen, even to strong people.

I knew. It had happened to my father. I used to think nothing could ever destroy him. But my mom’s death had."

Jesus Christ, did I pick up a copy of Johnny Got His Gun instead of a kid's book by accident?

Still, I never read them when I was a kid, and, as an adult, they don't hold a lot of interest. It's kind of unpleasant to revisit stuff you loved as a child once you're older, because it can feel rather empty and small. And checking out the stuff you weren't interested in when growing up is even worse. There's no bittersweet memories there, just nonsense aimed at an audience you're no longer a part of.

Which is kind of why nostalgia is kind of a dumb thing. Sure, I could say the books and movies of my childhood were the best ones in the world, but only the ones I actually happened to check out. If I missed a movie in theaters when I was a kid and only see it twenty years later, I might not be too impressed. No good memories of it, after all.

That's not to say there isn't quality work being done, even in the baloney-factory that is kids' entertainment. It's just that nostalgia goggles can make even stuff that's unmemorable feel a lot more interesting, and not having nostalgic feelings for something can make it seem bland and hollow, just because you're no longer the target audience.

And it's a pity because, the Animorphs books aren't bad by themselves. They're just not interesting when the person reading them is an adult who knew nothing about the series other than "that thing with the creepy covers I saw in libraries when I was a kid".

Which just goes to show one should never judge a book by its cover. Or, to put it another way, publishers need to be careful when choosing covers for their books. Can you imagine a What If world where the Animorphs covers were painted by Tim Jacobus? Would look amazing.

Speaking of the covers themselves, today's Buddy was traced from this book's:

It features Marco, the most Buddy-like of the Animorphs. I originally made a mistake in the background that made it looks like this:

I think it looks better, even if it was an accident, but it breaks my rule of only using three colors, so I had to make a quick fix. Oops.

#ab4es #drawing #books #children's book #children's books #children's literature #children's entertainment #animorphs #K. A. Applegate #trace #Goosebumps #Johnny Got His Gun #Tim Jacobus

[90smovies]

#Goosebumps #Tim Jacobus #R.L. Stine #R. L. Stine #RL Stine #R L Stine #DVD #90s

[sheltiechicago]

Meet Tim Jacobus, The Artist Who Gave Goosebumps Its Signature Look

#tim jacobus #artist #art #goosebumps #horror #scary