We’ve got a ton of stuff to get through in Limited Paper today, including a look at Mondo’s next big gallery show (featuring artwork from Australian duo We Buy Your Kids), FroDesignCo’s series of Mythic Beasts Travel Posters (featuring Limited Paper’s spirit animal, the Chupacabra), Gallery1988’s Rated G (featuring work from Justin White), and—because why the hell not—we also need to provide an update on our latest contest/giveaway while teasing the next one.  Phew.  Bring a bookmark and meet me on the other side of the jump, my fellow poster junkies.

A few weeks back, we announced the biggest giveaway we’ve ever done here at Limited Paper. After clearing up a brief bit of confusion regarding the various ways that readers could enter said giveaway, we were off and running…and holy crap, did you guys respond: our Drew Struzan’s Creature From The Black Lagoon giveaway resulted in almost four times as many entries as we’ve ever received on a Limited Paper giveaway up until now. We were really excited to get the winner announced…and then the week from hell struck.

Read on to find out who won that Drew Struzan Creature From The Black Lagoon, where you can buy one if you were part of the other 99.7% who entered, what took us so damn long, and what you can look forward to this week in Limited Paper. It’s all after the jump, folks.

It’s hard to overestimate the impact of Universal’s classic monster movies. They brought the themes and techniques of German Expressionism straight to Hometown U.S.A. and forever defined our notion of horror movies in the process. Every Halloween decoration ever made owes them some debt. Every onscreen boogeyman and misunderstood outcast can trace their roots back to them. They’ve become so ingrained in pop culture that we scarcely acknowledge their existence anymore… save during moments like this one, when they make the leap onto a new medium. As part of their 100^th anniversary celebration, Universal has packaged eight of them into an “Essentials” Blu-ray collection, a handsome set that nonetheless stumbles into a number of expected pitfalls. Hit the jump for my full review.

Well, here it is, folks.  After weeks of promising you “our biggest giveaway ever”, after randomly revealing a number of teaser images via Twitter, and—just this past Friday—after dropping a major hint in the form of an entire writeup about the poster we were getting ready to give away, we are finally ready to get this party started:  thanks to a stunningly generous donation (from a guy who may very well love Drew Struzan more than any of us), we’re kicking off Universal Monsters Week @ Limited Paper by giving away one of Drew Struzan’s Creature From The Black Lagoon posters.

Wanna know how you can win the rarest, most valuable, most balls-out-gorgeous poster we’ve ever given away here at Limited Paper HQ?  Of course you do.  Meet me after the jump, folks, and all will be revealed.

For serious poster collectors and Universal Monsters fans, it will come as no surprise that Drew Struzan—the legendary artist who created some of the most well-known, iconic movie posters ever to come out of Hollywood—once created a poster for Universal’s Creature From The Black Lagoon:  after all, the image has been bouncing around since 2001, and it’s easily discovered for anyone who does a little poking around on Struzan’s website;  it’s not as though Struzan’s been keeping this thing a secret.  And yet, I recently noticed—over the course of several email-based conversations with readers—that very few of you seemed to be aware of this print’s existence.

With Mondo’s Universal Monsters show just about a week away from opening, I figured it’d be a good time to take a look at the history of this piece:  how it came about, who produced it, and—last but not least—where people may be able to get ahold of one if one were so inclined.  For all of that (and more), meet me after the jump, folks.

We recently lamented the lack of classic contemporary monster figures in our horror-themed Collision podcast, and now, up pops news on the remake of Universal’s Creature from the Black Lagoon.  The studio has tapped Dave Kajganich (The Invasion) to write up the project, a reimagining of the 1954 classic.  Produced in part by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games), whose father was a writer on the original film, Creature from the Black Lagoon centers on the titular antagonist, a prehistoric humanoid who rises from his watery abode to terrorize the terrestrials.  Kajganich’s other projects include remakes of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, It and The Stand.  Heat Vision further reports that Carl Rinsch (47 Ronin) is not attached to direct.

Hit the jump for writerly news on Old Man’s War, an adaptation of the John Scalzi sci-fi novel. 

Universal is prepping the Blu-ray release of Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection on October 2.  The box set features Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.  There are 12 hours of bonus features and a 48-page book with behind-the-scenes photographs and original posters.  Notably,Creature from the Black Lagoonis presented in 3D as it was filmed.  Basically, if you are a fan of the Universal monsters, this sounds like a godsend.

Hit the jump for the press release with details on the special features that accompany each movie and a look at the box art.

Anticipation’s running high for the 15-some-odd poster drops that Mondo’s promised during this year’s Comic-Con, and so far the reveals have been pretty damn stunning:  we’ve learned that Mondo and HBO have teamed up for a Game of Thrones series, and—just a few days ago– the fine folks at Entertainment Weekly revealed three of the prints from that series to a frenzied response from fans.  All’s been quiet on the poster-reveal front ever since, but today Limited Paper is proud to play host to the next big reveal from Mondo’s Comic-Con lineup:  the long-awaited screenprint for Universal’s Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Ready to get a peek?  Meet me after the jump, my fellow limited paper-enthusiasts.

If you haven’t seen director Carl Erik Rinsch’s short sci-fi film The Gift, you need to stop reading and click this link.  That’s because Rinsch’s 5 minute short that takes place in a futuristic Russia is an awesome little film that has already sparked a bidding war in Hollywood.

While everyone assumed the bidding war was over the rights to the short film and the world Rinsch created, Peter at Slashfilm found out Rinsch has already written and designed a feature called Small and The Gift is actually the prequel to that film!  But it gets better.  Peter landed some leaked concept art from Small and if you hit the jump you can check it out: