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Czanara: The Art & Photographs of Raymond Carrance

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Untitled photo print.
A fantastic exhibition of photographs, drawings and engravings by Raymond Carrance, aka Czanara, opens today at Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art, New York, running until June 21, 2008. For those of us who can’t get to see it there’s a selection of the works on show at their site which immediately increases […]

Posted in {photography}, {comics}, {gay}, {art} | 2 comments »

The skull beneath the skin

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All Is Vanity by Charles Allan Gilbert (1892).
The surreptitious skull is another of those perennial motifs that recur in art from time to time and one which has become especially prevalent since the late 19th century. There seem to be a number of reasons for this, the most obvious being that if you’re going to […]

Posted in {work}, {painting}, {fashion}, {surrealism}, {photography}, {music}, {film}, {comics}, {art} | 4 comments »

Mouse Heaven by Kenneth Anger

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Mouse Heaven: Minnie and Mickey.
Kenneth Anger’s paean to Disney rodent memorabilia, and one of his most recent works, turns up at the Grey Lodge. Mouse Heaven is a distinctly minor piece, an awkward mix of film and video which juxtaposes shots of mouse figurines with a song-based soundtrack. Scorpio Rising this isn’t but the editing […]

Posted in {magazines}, {animation}, {television}, {comics}, {film}, {gay} | 2 comments »

Jessie M King’s Grey City of the North

Jessie M King’s Grey City of the North

“This dark and steep alley took its name from Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, Lord Advocate of Scotland, 1692–1713, whose mansion stood at the foot of the close. It was a fashionable quarter in the early 18th century, and here resided Andrew Crosby, the famous lawyer, the original of Scott’s ‘Andrew Pleydell,’ Lord Westhall, John […]

Posted in {books}, {illustrators}, {cities}, {black and white}, {lovecraft}, {architecture}, {comics}, {work}, {art} | 4 comments »

Design as virus #3

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The Mindscape of Alan Moore; film poster by John Coulthart (2003).

Alan Moore: An Extraordinary Gentleman;
event poster by unknown designer (2008).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Design as virus #2
• Design as virus #1

Posted in {books}, {comics}, {design} | 9 comments »

James Bond postage stamps

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Proving once again the centrality of James Bond to contemporary British identity, the Royal Mail releases these stamps on January 8th, 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth. If a misogynist state assassin seems an awkward choice of cultural ambassador, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill present a more iconoclastic view of the super spy […]

Posted in {books}, {pulp}, {comics}, {design} | 2 comments »

HG Wells in Classics Illustrated

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Complete scans of War of the Worlds (1955) and The Time Machine (1956), both adapted by Lou Cameron.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The night that panicked America
• The Door in the Wall
• War of the Worlds book covers

Posted in {books}, {science fiction}, {comics} | No comments »

CQ

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A belated shout of appreciation for this film whose distribution appears to have been so limited that everyone missed it, me included. That’s a shame as Roman Coppola’s debut (he’s the son of Francis) has a lot to commend it although it helps if you’re familiar with pulpy European spy/science fiction/horror movies of the late […]

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Cain’s son: the incarnations of Grendel

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Beowulf wrestles with Grendel, Lynd Ward (1939).
There’s nothing new in pointing out Hollywood’s crimes against literature, the film business has been screwing up book adaptation since the earliest days of silent cinema. But sometimes the wound is so grievous you can’t help but speak out, in this case against Roger Avary’s Beowulf which […]

Posted in {horror}, {religion}, {books}, {illustrators}, {fantasy}, {science fiction}, {gay}, {film}, {comics}, {art} | 7 comments »

Alan Moore: the wonderful wizard of… Northampton

Alan Moore: the wonderful wizard of… Northampton

Alan Moore: the wonderful wizard of… Northampton
| Alan in the Telegraph.

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