Original Cabinet Card - Big Head Devil

Professor Lucius Balphagor Grimmtuft was once the Dean of Infernal Studies at St. Louis’s highly exclusive and extremely flammable Academia Diabolica. Born with a cranium of such vast volume that he was issued his own zip code (and umbrella), Lucius was rumored to hold entire alternate dimensions in his frontal lobe.

The horns? Decorative. The ears? Batlike and bilingual. The third eye? Always watching, especially during exams.

Despite his ominous appearance and signature “doom whisper,” Lucius was known to be quite personable, often hosting tea parties for recently-escaped souls and the occasional spectral raccoon. The crown symbol tattooed on his forehead was a temporary choice that, unfortunately, became permanent due to a clerical error involving an exploding summoning circle.

This photo was taken moments before he levitated three feet off the ground, sneezed out a minor demon, and declared, “I am not combing my beard again until someone invents pocket jazz!”

Colin Batty is an artist from Manchester, UK. He has worked on countless cool projects including Tim Burton's, Mars Attacks, the Oscar nominated short, The Sandman, Eddie Murphy's, The PJ's and many, many more. Colin has contributed to Freakybuttrue for many years and graces this site with his amazing designs, incredible sculptures, comics and his world famous cabinet card paintings and so much more.

Each original cabinet card is a genuine one hundred year old (or more) photograph on which Colin directly paints. Photographs of this age are often creased, scratched, deteriorated, and otherwise worn. Colin often utilizes the character of the wear to find inspiration.

Each card is signed and dated by the artist.

High quality prints of this original can be purchased HERE.