Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta passed away on May 10th of this year; as many bloggers, such as Tina Sena, and Loren Coleman, have noted. Frazetta created Mothman images; more can be seen at Loren’s site and elsewhere. Frazetta also did other fantastic art .. he gave us so much and it is sad to know he’s gone.

Question asked on Yahoo Answers: Why was the Mothman Watcher sent to the asylym?

Beware; for some reason the link doesn’t work, or it didn’t for me; I got an alert that Yahoo removed the question due to “community guidelines.” So here’s what came through in my alerts:

It’s not clear in the film but here’s what I found on wiki :

“During the ’50s, as Mason later mentions, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee forced all active costumed vigilantes to reveal themselves to one of their representatives. Due to left-wing friends that Mothman had cultivated while a student, his clearance was considerably more difficult than his companions. He was eventually cleared, but Mason describes the investigations as both lengthy and ruthless.

Mason speculates that the pressure of this meeting may have prompted his future drinking problem, but Laurence Schexnayder points out that the stem of his harder drinking was after the death of Dollar Bill. After a long bout of drinking, Mothman had a complete mental breakdown, and in 1962 he was admitted into a mental institution that Rorschach reveals is in Maine. “

Jewel Staite (Firefly, Stargate Atlantis) stars in Mothman, premiering Saturday, April 24, at 9PM (ET/PT). In the movie, the legendary West Virginia monster returns to exact revenge on five childhood friends who covered up an accidental killing. Produced by Brad Krevoy and Reuben Liber. Directed by Sheldon Wilson. Written by Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh. Source: Sci Fi Talk Official Blog.

I hope it’ll be better than the awful Jersey Devil movie they aired a year or so ago. As much as I love Lou Diamond Phillips, the movie couldn’t transcend the enjoyable B movie vibe. I didn’t expect it to be good good, just, not… bad. Mainly it was the ending that got to me; as if all the producers and the director just gave up and tried to finish the movie off so they all go home.

Anyway, of course I’ll be watching Mothman!

Alien Art Genre: Drawings, paintings, and other artistic renderings of aliens, entities, UFOs, esoteric happenings and other strange things experienced — whether literally or by inspiration — by creative witnesses. If you have an image to submit, email Regan Lee at rlee@orangeorb.net with image, medium, title and brief description (direct sighting or encounter, inspired by _____, etc.)

I’ve been feeling the urge to paint Mothman images — do a whole series of small paintings with UFOs and entities as the theme — and this is my first Mothman attempt. Just scribbling, really. This is a pen and pencil sketch I did, then manipulated it with the Photobooth tools. The original drawing has more color (didn’t have the tools I wanted, and too lazy to walk out to the studio in the back to get them) and I’ve cropped the image a bit.