After seeing a positive review in Boing! Boing!, I picked up a copy of Fantagraphics’ Beasts!. The book features illustrations of creatures that were once thought to be real but are now almost universally believed to have never existed, such as Minotaurs. The artwork is just plain awesome.
What I didn’t realize was that there is an accompanying Beasts! Blog that, among other things, features other beast-related artwork by the artists featured in beasts, like Meg Hunt’s rendering of the mythological Erinyes,
The only drawback to the book is that there is no entry for the Chupacabra. Fantagraphics should correct this oversite by devoting a single book just to various imaginings of the Chupacabra.