Torchwood / Pulp Novel Mashups

In 2009 I was very into Torchwood, a Doctor Who spinoff that liked to very seriously assert that it was an adult programme by having lots of gratuitous (and very often queer) sex and character death. In actual fact, it was enormously cheesily performed and clunkily written and utterly delightful due to all of the above.

I like to creatively engage with texts I love, so in honour of the utter OTT-ness of Torchwood--as well as its own aesthetic and thematic homages to hardboiled, melodramatic, retro trash--I made some fan art that mashed up vintage pulp and scifi covers with Torchwood. It was immensely fun to do, and I didn't really realise how much of that geek cultural capital (knowledge of the minutiae and subtleties of said text) could be communicated through a single image.

Also, I have a long-standing love affair with pomo, so it was fun for that, too.

I used various sources in each--the original novel cover (which I've linked to), Torchwood promo photography, textures, etc. The text on each is taken directly from the pulp; I didn't write any of it myself (and in most cases, the bylines belong to the titles they appear with).

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