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  1. […] Most of us have probably never heard of Thomas Kinkade, a US painter who died in April. But a recent Slate Culture gabfest dealt with him. His stuff has to be seen to be believed. It’s amazing – though, well I’ll let people make up their own minds as to why – and it’s difficult not to feel that some of the time he spent in Ralph Bakshi’s animation studio had a greater effect than might be expected (albeit not in a good way or, one suspects, in a way Bakshi would have liked), but this… this is an interesting cultural collision. […]

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  2. These would make him turn over in his grave. Would have been more amusing if someone copied his style and placed in Lovecraftian horrors but it still works….Norman Rockwell shpould be next.

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  3. Thank You,this was an immensely amusing collection of images,which would make Kinkade turnover in his grave…he he!

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  4. Is this, then, the “pornography of the Coming Age” mentioned in Grant Morrison’s “Lovecraft In Heaven?” What harrowing dread image will serve as the centerfold? Yea, verily, I tremble with fear and fascination!

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  5. Very cool – I like the version of Cthulhu in the first picture, but overall like the 3rd picture best. Almospheric!

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