Granny's Skull Dolls

Random Granny in Northampton, England makes and sells these happy looking skull dolls...



UPDATE 4/19: Just got this note from Random Granny AKA Nicola after I told her about the interest in buying her work..."OOOoooh how exciting! I am currently getting a website designed which shouldn't be too long now. I sell them locally at the Bicycle Basket Bazaar in Northampton, UK and they have proved very popular. I also have a range of other (slightly bizarre) things. I am more than happy to sell them via email in the meantime. I have another email dedicated for selling which is randomgranny_AT_yahoo.co.uk that I can be contacted on...You've made my day!!"

Mutant Skull

Michael Herring in Broomfield, Colorado painted this intense image. It's 30" x 40" and currently showing in a Boulder, CO hair salon!

[BONUS] Skull Stencil in Use

Gail Stewart made this lovely purse out of a vintage placemat, chopsticks, and my Cocoa Stencil. She's selling it (and potentially a few more) on Etsy and donating the profits to the Australian Red Cross to benefit victims of the February Victoria bushfires. You can get it HERE.

Lego Portrait Skull

Jennie Kadrioski says, "I was sitting on the floor with my son and his Legos one day, and, bored with making trucks and tiny houses, found inspiration in both Allan Bedford's Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide (which contains a fine chapter on mosaic) and Skull-a-Day. My son was so enamored with it, he wouldn't allow it be dismantled for days!"

[CONTEST] Win a RawJawBone T-shirt!

My friend Richard John Becker of RawJawBone Graphics has kindly offered to give away one of his fantastic skull T-shirts to a lucky reader of Skull-A-Day!

You have a choice between his "Tragedy over time is Comedy"...



and "Skull Bulb" shirts...

To be entered into a random drawing to win the shirt of your choice, just leave a comment below telling us about the most favorite T-shirt you ever owned (and maybe even a short story about why it's your favorite)!

You just have until Midnight (Eastern Time) on Monday, April 20th to enter so don't delay. [UPDATE 4/21] The contest is over and the winner will be announced soon! Thanks to everyone for sharing your stories!

And of course you don't have to wait til the contest is over to get your own shirt (or one of a number of other great items) at the RawJawBone Graphics Ebay Store.

Good luck!

Tough Skull

Calavera from Santiago, Chile created this excellent tattoo style illustration...

Tatman's Skullapalooza

Longtime Skull-A-Day fan Justin AKA Tatman has gone on a skull making frenzy recently and produced a bunch of great pieces!

This one was inspired by Alex's junk drawer skull...



The first mustard skull of the project...



A "zip screw" skull. Justin says, "It is made of 354 total 1/4" hex head x 3/8" screws used for attaching downspouts and elbows to gutter. The overall size is about 6" wide by 71/2" high. My forearm was little tired after screwing all of those in(that didn't sound right)."...




A revisit of my Cork Skull...



A block skull, about which he says, "My 3 year old knew it was a skull. I was so proud!"...



And finally Justin recently mailed me this fantastic gift, a custom carved rock...

Sunday Simulacra - Round 32

Rachael from New Jersey discovered this skully bruise...



and Kieran Egan in Bristol, UK found several skulls including, this one in the oven...



...this one on Whiteladies Road in Bristol...


...and this one left over after a brief snow storm...

Skull-A-Day Press: Chip Chik

There's a nice mention of the new Skull-A-Day keyboard skull T-shirt over on Chip Chick!



Chip Chick
4/9/09

Scary Skull Sketches

Luis Pacheco, a self-taught artist from Lisbon, Portugal shared this wicked piece...



and John Mahaffey drew this serious looking fellow...

A Skull by Any Other Name...

I have a big art exhibition coming up this July and August here in Richmond, Virginia at Quirk Gallery. The show will feature a wide selection of the original 365.25 Skulls as well as several new pieces made specifically for the show (and it is first time any of the pieces will be for sale). The only problem is I need a title! Below is a list of what I've come up with so far. Can you help me out and let me know which one/s you prefer and/or give you own suggestion/s for what it could be? Thanks!

• The Skull Show
• Vanitas
• Memento Mori
• Carpe Diem
• Postmortem
• After Life
• Still Life
• I [heart] Skulls
• Skulls

p.s. I'll post more details about the show as it gets closer!

Lantern Skull

Heldegard Linggawidjaja in Los Angeles made this terrific two-faced ceramic skull lantern...

Sweet & Spicy Skulls

Excellent paintings by Jordana Hawen from New Orleans shared by her friend Martin (with her permission), who is in the process of updating her official site HERE ...

Skull Fanatic: Wolf Leach

This month's addition to the Skull Fanatic series is Wolf Leach. He says...

"I have been a skull fanatic for as long as I can remember. I guess it may have started back in the Sixties when I was about 5 or 6 years old while watching horror movies through openings between my fingers. I always thought they looked really cool. My Dad also had a skull tattoo that he got when he was in the Service during the Korean War....I also have dozens of t-shirts with skulls in different configurations on them. Many of my friends and relatives buy me skull related paraphernalia for birthdays and such. I think my 9 year old daughter has become a fanatic as well. She now has many t-shirts and jewelery items depicting skulls."

Below are a few skulls from his collection (L-R snowflake obsidian, hematite, snowflake obsidian, and unakite) as well as a logo he created for his guitar picks and case...




Are you a certified/certifiable Skull Fanatic? If so, send an image or two of your personal skull/skeleton collection and tell us a bit about what makes you so crazy for skulls, how many skulls you own, and whatever else you think is pertinent!

Skull-A-Day Event: Southern Women's Show

Folks in the Richmond, Virginia area have another chance to meet me and get a signed copy of Skulls at the Southern Women's Show on Saturday, April 18th from 3-4pm. Look for me at the Skirt Magazine booth (505, 507). [They kindly asked that I join them there since they featured me in their magazine a few months ago.]

Tickets and details about the event are HERE.

Skull Menagerie

Kenneth Botsford Jr. shared a lovely series of animal skulls...

Nibbles the Rabbit

Mittens the Cat

and Rover the Dog

Virtual Skull Ring

Jasu Salmi in Finland made this awesome looking skull ring mock-up, hopefully the real thing will get made sooner or later...

One upon a time...

Just wanted to point out that thanks to the hard work of the site's anonymous benefactor Citizen Agent you now have a way to look at all of the original skulls in this project without digging through the archives! He's made three pages of links which encompass all original 365.25 skulls, plus an additional page for the new skulls that have been coming up periodically. The links are below, but they can also now be found in the sidebar under "about". I hope this gives the new fans of the site a chance to get caught up and older fans a chance to revisit their favorites.

SKULLS 1-122
SKULLS 123-244
SKULLS 245-365.25
BONUS SKULLS 366 and counting

Death Mask Skull

Andrew Schrock from DC/Richmond, VA says, "I was inspired by your site and began my own ' ___ a Day' escapade a while back but have only published it recently (aDeathMaskaDay). I've created one of my Death Masks as a reaction to Skull-a-Day, I hope you enjoy it!" He even kindly gave me this mask for my personal collection, so an extra thanks to Andrew! Be sure to check out his daily Death Masks HERE.

Sunday Simulacra - Round 31

OK so Cameron didn't actually take this picture, but kudos to him/her for discovering a skull in space via the Hubble telescope...


Scott "Drac" Smale of Mishawaka, Indiana, discovered this creepy weather system on the local news (he also provided some skull coverage to protect the innocent weatherman)...



And Arbyn found this happy skull fellow on the bottom of a roller skate...

Fifteen Funky Skulls

Bruce New from Louisville, KY made this cute grouping of skulls...

New Skull-A-Day Notebooks from Modofly!

The fine folks at Modofy, who previously brought you the lovely laser-cut Moleskine notebooks have just relaunched their site, with a ton of great new products, including four Skull-A-Day designs! The new notebooks have full-color printed fabric covers that feature wraparound art from dozens of amazing artists. Of course I would hope you'd consider buying one (or more) or my designs, but really all of the books are great and the money goes to help a small business stay afloat and of course a portion goes to the artists as well!

You can check out my four current designs here (front and back art shown):

Camo Pattern

Tesselated Pattern

Stripes

Ornament(al)

Here's what the finished notebooks (from some of the other artists) look like...

Engraved Skull

SOBA.ONE made this lovely laser etched sketchbook based on an original pencil illustration...

Brand New T-Skull brought to you by I Can Has Cheezburger!

Hey folks, this one's NOT an April Fool's Day joke, the fine folks at I Can Has Cheezburger & FAILblog have kindly agreed to make and sell the latest Skull-A-Day T-shirt for me! The L33T Skull shirt (based on my skull #48) is the first non-LOL/FAIL product they've made and it's available exclusively through the LOLMart HERE. Please buy one and show them that this was a good decision and that they should make more of my skulls into shirts!

Cheesy Stuffed Peppers Skulls

Marco from Italy made these delicious looking stuffed peppers with cheese skulls! He says, "some of the skull eyes are just the natural cheese holes (emmental probably, or edamer)." Here they are before and after cooking...


This would make a great dinner party with my own (Who Cut The) Cheese Skull(?)!

Scrabble Skull

Michael S. Edgerly says this was, "Made by me and my roommate, Anna, after her boyfriend, John, kicked my butt big time at Scrabble! :)"...

SKULLS The Audio Book! (April Fool's 2009)

Hey folks, I'm very excited to announce that an audio version of my book SKULLS is going to be released this summer! It's read by the incredibly talented Eliza Skinner, who you may know from her roles in Amy At The Club & Pop Tudors, and features the complete unabridged text of the book on 3 CDs. It'll be available on Amazon.com and of course I encourage you to ask for it at your local independent bookstore when it's available. Right now the release date is set for June 2nd, but you can get a special sneak listen below. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...




[UPDATE 4/1] Oh yeah I forgot to mention, April Fools!