Alot of the traffic that I get here is from folks googling the Codex Seraphinianus, about which I posted a little more than a year ago. The post was to a flickr set that has since gone dark. However, you can download the codex as a cbz via torrent here. You’ll need ComicBookLover or Comical or some goddamn thing to read it.
…being the natural history of an adaptive radiation of small mammals whose key innovation was a remarkable nasal plasticity. Long out of print but not particularly hard to find, I’ve scanned the plates and figures and put them on Flickr. But you really owe it to yourself to scare up a copy of the book, particularly if you’re a fan of the Codex Seraphinianus, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, that kinda thing. The wikipedia treatment is pretty anemic. That’s all the time I got, fortunately for you a real blogger is more forthcoming with details and links, and has even found taxidermied specimens !(1, 2)
From a 1931 Czech childrens book, Naměsíc a ještě dál.
I’m scanning some of the cooler illustrations and putting them in a Flickr set. I’ll be skipping the boats and landscapes and horsies and focusing on the sea monsters and dinosaurs and that kind of thing. There’s a little more than a dozen images up now, I’ll probably have about 40 images up when I’m done and it might take all summer.
Michael Gagne has put all of the illustrations from the out of print Frenzied Fauna online for free.
Via.
This Flickr set has high resolution scans of the incredible Codex Seraphinianus (Wikipedia).
via Metafilter.
[EDIT don't click on the thumbnails, they just link to this post and WordPress's upload manager won't let me change their anchors (?!?!)]
[EDIT newer post, different link]
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