Cartoonist Vera Brosgol has posted her startling, wordless mini-comic What Were You Raised by Wolves? online. Read it in its entirety here.
(via Robot 6)
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Published January 18, 2012
Tag: horror
Published November 2, 2011
Blood
Did you read the end of Emily Carroll’s gothic horror story Margot’s Room? She did say there would be blood. But holy shit… Amazing.
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Published October 3, 2011
Margot’s Room by Emily Carroll
I was really impressed by Emily Carroll’s Halloween comic His Face All Red last year, so I’m very much looking forward to reading Carroll’s new 5-part story Margot’s Room.
According to Carroll, the story will be updated every Friday until the end of October, with a new line of poetry providing a clue to the whereabouts of the next comic in the illustrated room. The first instalment ‘Flowers’ was posted last Friday (hint: click the flowers).
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Published July 8, 2011
Something for the Weekend
Sweet Nuttin’ — A primer on George Herriman’s classic and wonderfully idiosyncratic comic strip Krazy Kat at Robot 6:
Krazy Kat is far from a chore… Indeed, it is rarely anything less than a delight to read, although it can be a bit challenging for newcomers. The early strips are dense with wordplay, while the later strips take on the quality of near-abstract paintings at times. Then there’s Krazy’s off-kilter dialogue (“If only I could be star or a moom or a komi or ivin a solo eeklip. But me, I’m nuttin”). Thus, whichever book you decide to dive into first, I’d recommend taking your time. Read (and reread) the strips slowly and don’t feel the need to rush through.
Unhappy Endings — Jason Zinoman, author of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, talks to Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air:
I think that as you look at this period from ’68 to the end of the ’70s, generally, first of all, you see a lot more unhappy endings. There isn’t this kind of catharsis at the end that you see in a lot of movies before that.
The central kind of monsters are no longer werewolves and vampires and the supernatural. The central monsters are – or I guess I would say the central monsters become serial killers and zombies… And I think the other thing that marks it is there’s a certain kind of moral ambiguity about these movies and just generally a sort sense of confusion and disorientation that marks most of these films.
Meanwhile, over on KCRW filmmaker and author John Sayles talks about his hefty new book A Moment in the Sun with Michael Silverblatt for Bookworm.
And finally…
Rick Poynor on the dictionary as art concept for Designer Observer:
Comments closedWith book design, we should value appropriateness to subject, vivid animation of content, and the dexterity and panache with which the designers interpret every purposeful, cherishable convention of the book. The notion of continual reinvention as a worthwhile or attainable goal is particularly misplaced here…
Published April 28, 2011
Koji Suzuki | Vertical
After watching Lauren Panepinto’s how-to video yesterday and talking with designer Jacob Covey about op-art book covers, I was reminded of Chip Kidd’s amazing designs for the Vertical editions of Koji Suzuki’s Ring books:
Vertical are apparently releasing Edge by Koji Suzuki this fall with a cover by Peter Mendelsund that sticks with the visual theme of the series:
The design is from a few years ago according to Peter (it still looks fresh to me), but clearly I should have nagged him for a better quality image rather than relying on the internet!
Update: Thanks to Peter for sending me a higher-res cover image for Edge. Beauty.
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Published November 3, 2010
His Face All Red
A bit late in the day on this — it would have been a perfect post for Halloween — but Emily Carroll’s chilling short-story comic His Face All Red is still pretty darn great.
(via The Ephemerist)
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Published October 30, 2009
Something for the Halloween Weekend, 2009
Dawn of the Dreadfuls — not normally my kind of book cover, but hey it’s Hallowe’en and I think Quirk Books knocked this out of the park (full disclosure: Quirk are distributed by Raincoast Books in Canada).
And continuing the spooky theme…
Hallorave — Fantagraphics have been posting previews of the first volume of Mezzo and Pirus’ “extraordinary suburban horror trilogy”, King of the Flies, on their blog all this week. Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. It looks intense:
Devices and Contraptions Extraordinaire — “The world’s first exhibition of steampunk art” at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, England. There is a blog accompanying the exhibition by curator Art Donovan (via ReadySteadyBlog).
Dark Star — Michael Dirda’s review of The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, published by W.W. Norton, in the Washington Post:
In “The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard” devastated worlds are matched with even more devastated psyches. But these aren’t simply “myths of the near future,” they are probes sent down into the desolate heart of the here and now. As Ballard knew, reality has become just a subgenre of science fiction.
And finally…just for Hallowe’en, here’s a great vintage cover for Bram Stoker’s Dracula seen at the Golden Age Comic Stories blog (via the awesome, but not entirely safe for work, This Isn’t Happiness):
Normal, non-spooky, service will resume next week…