A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Previous posts about illustrators. • Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres • The Parade and Baron Verdigris • Alastair’s Manon Lescaut • More Harry Clarke online • Ian Miller album covers • Worlds Beyond Time • Franz von Bayros’s Inferno • Fender guitar catalogue, 1976 • Parapsychology by Moebius • The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle • … Continue reading “The illustrators archive”
Previous posts about book covers or cover design. • The art of Davis Meltzer, 1929–2017 • Covering Maldoror • Dennis Leigh book covers • Corgi SF Collector’s Library • Goodfellow and Borges • Victor Valla book covers • Crank book covers • Peter Haars book covers • Covering Genet • Beksinski at Mnémos • Patricia … Continue reading “The book covers archive”
Cormac McCarthy’s venomous fiction Richard B. Woodward The New York Times, April 19, 1992 “YOU KNOW ABOUT MOJAVE RATTLESNAKES?” Cormac McCarthy asks. The question has come up over lunch in Mesilla, N.M., because the hermitic author, who may be the best unknown novelist in America, wants to steer conversation away from himself, and he seems … Continue reading “Cormac McCarthy’s venomous fiction”
Originally published in Strange Things Are Happening, vol. 1, no. 2, May/June 1988. Note: “Vincent Eno” was Richard Norris, later one half of dance/ambient outfit The Grid with Dave Ball. See also the Watchmen round table discussion on this site. Vincent Eno and El Csawza meet comics megastar ALAN MOORE Amidst smouldering heaps of superlatives … Continue reading “Alan Moore interview, 1988”
Understanding Mu (1970) by Hans Stefan Santesson. Cover art by Ron Walotsky. Via. • “I have never believed Chariots of the Gods?—it takes faith, so what I mean is that I’ve never believed in it—but it has still held my affection for decades.” Patrick Allington on ancient aliens, unidentified aerial phenomena, and the unhinged pleasures … Continue reading “Weekend links 590”