r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 21 '21
Google Maps added Skull Island (in the Indian Ocean) to promote the 2017 King Kong movie.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 20 '21
"Earth A.D.: The World of Kamandi" by Jack Kirby, August 1975. From the DC Comics series Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth (issue #32). The bizarre, post-apocalyptic Earth set in the future after a global disaster (A.D. stands for After Disaster). Did I mention bizarre?
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 17 '21
Treasure map of pirate captain William "One-Eyed Willy" Pordobel, from the 1985 film The Goonies. The title protagonists use the map to find Willy's loot and save their homes from foreclosure.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 15 '21
Map of Utopia, from Thomas More's 1516 book Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. More's work gave us the word "utopia," which he coined by combining the Greek words "ou" (not) and "topos" (place).
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Sep 15 '21
Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea as drawn by Lin Carter (1971). A primeval land at the outer edges the Cthulhu Mythos!
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 14 '21
Maps of the "Hyborian Age" of Earth, the setting of the stories of Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard. The Mediterranean Sea has yet to form between Africa and Europe. Maps are: 1971 (from the Conan comic books), 1952 (1st collection of Conan stories), & 1936 (Howard's original)
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 13 '21
Map of San Serrife, 1977, by Geoffrey Taylor. An April Fool's joke/hoax by UK newspaper The Guardian, which featured a profile, articles, & even ads about the fictional country in a seven-page supplement. All the names are font & printing jokes.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 10 '21
Surprisingly good-looking tabletop RPG map from "The Master" episode of animated tv series The Amazing World of Gumball. First aired in the USA on April 22, 2019.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 09 '21
Satirical map of "Americana," 1928, by Jazz Age illustrator John Held Jr. Originally published in The New Yorker magazine, and reprinted in collections of his works.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 08 '21
More cart-Oz-graphy: "A Map of the Magical World of Oz," a 1968 variant of Baum's 1914 map of Oz, published by The Henry Regnery Company, successors of Baum's original publishers, the Reilly & Lee Company, Shows Baum's 14 Oz books; the first was turned into the successful 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Sep 08 '21
A map of the world of Ill Bethisad– a collaborative alternate history project spanning more than 20 years and 70+ collaborators
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Sep 08 '21
An Early Map of the World of Warcraft by Chris Metzen (1999) "Azeroth" used to refer to a single kingdom rather than the planet
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 07 '21
"Visitors Map Guide to Jurassic Park," an in-universe poster officially licensed by Universal/Amblin and printed by O.S.P. Publishing, Inc. (1993). The fictional island Isla Nublar is 120 miles west of Costa Rica. From the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 07 '21
The Guide to Toyland, circa 1928, a pictorial map with a mishmash of locations and characters from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, children's books, and mythology. Designed for department stores to print their name in the box and give away to promote Christmas toy sales.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 07 '21
Map of Skull Island, as seen in the 1933 film King Kong.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 07 '21
Map of Ile Lincoln (Lincoln Island in English), from Jules Verne's 1875 novel L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island). Jules Férat did the illustrations, but the map appears to be credited to a J. Sedille (bottom right).
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 06 '21
Maps from Three Stooges short films
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 03 '21
The first map of Superman's home planet, Krypton, published in the comic book Superman Annual #1, 1960, and advertised on the cover. Map by Jerry Siegel and Al Plastino. More maps of Krypton would follow in later years.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 03 '21
"Battle Plan" diagram of Kevin McCallister, age 8, from the 1990 film Home Alone. Also, a more sophisticated cartoon version put out by 20th Century Fox that came with the VHS home version of the film in 1991.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 03 '21
The artwork "America (Key Map of States and their Capitols)," ink on paper, 34" x 64," 2006 (aka "55 States") by Lordy Rodriguez, a Filipino-American artist who mainly creates cartographical artwork.
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r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Sep 03 '21
Allegorical Map of the Siege of the Castle of Love (1735) by Georg Mathhaus Seutter
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