Archive for July, 2008

Airship Pirates!

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Every once in a while, it’s good to appreciate the beauty of some fine aerial pirate’s dirigible, so here goes! This lovely artwork was done by the talented artist(s) of Studio Octavia and called the Dragonship. More depictions of the Dragonship are available at the Studio’s website, where also much more wonderful imagery [...]

Strange Engines of the Civil War

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Mr Lamb has informed me of his most interesting new journal, Strange Engines – a blog of the curious, surprising and downright unbelievable weapons and technology from the Civil War Era. Though a new site, the first page has already had me marvelling at the ingenuity of those souls – from steam guns to [...]

The Steampunk Pinups of Suzanne Rachel Forbes

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Suzanne Rachel Forbes has worked as the courtroom artist for CBS Television, CNN and several newspapers, as the regular artist on DC ComicsStar Trek, The Original Series, as a book illustrator and as a portraitist. Her paintings, comic art and courtroom illustrations are in collections across the United States. Her current work focuses on [...]

Space Captain Smith

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Space Captain Smith is a recently-published steampunk novel by a Mr Toby Frost about a Captain Isambard Smith in service of the British Space Empire! Bringing steampunk into outer space, Mr Frost throws our Captain Smith in peril and adventure as he seeks to rescue a psychic hippy maiden from a hippy world and [...]

Icon Buffet’s Steampunk Icons

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Such a small image, but such a lovely resourse! Ms. Mathewson alerted me to the fact that icon site Icon Buffet recently included a Steampunk set of icons (seen above) in their series of themed sets! Having been a (free) member of Icon Buffet for years, I really ought to have known this, [...]