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Untitled art by Katie Scott<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“…the very fact that people cannot get published by the big-name publishers in the way that they used to has meant that you\u2019ve got some really interesting and often really beautiful little small publishing houses that are springing up and coming into existence. And the stuff that they\u2019re providing is actually a lot better. I\u2019m thinking of people like Tartarus Press<\/a>, Strange Attractor<\/a> and various other commendable small publishers that do a beautiful job and that are producing books that are good to have on your bookshelf.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alan Moore<\/a> discussing books old and new in a lengthy interview at Honest Publishing. In part two<\/a> he takes to task hardboiled moron Frank Miller and offers his thoughts on the Occupy movement. Elsewhere the Guardian<\/em> finally paid some attention to the importance of design<\/a> in the book world. Some of us who do this for a living have been saying for years that if publishers want to see physical books thriving they need to maintain (or improve) the quality of their design and materials. Related: The Truth About Amazon Publishing<\/a>, Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent examines some the figures behind Amazon’s PR.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Tenniel argued for several changes to the characters as conceived by Carroll. The croquet mallets are ostriches in the original drawings, and the hoops are footmen bent over with the tails of their coats hanging down over their bottoms like an animal\u2019s. Tenniel left them out. He told the author that a girl might manage a flamingo, but not an ostrich.” Marina Warner<\/a> again on John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll and the Alice books.<\/p>\n

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Untitled painting by Christian Schoeler who was interviewed for a second time<\/a> at East Village Boys.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Shamanism and the City: Psychedelic Spiritual Tourism Comes Home<\/a> and Scientists finding new uses for hallucinogens and street drugs<\/a>. Related: LSD \u2013 A Documentary Report<\/em><\/a> (1966), “a totally new kind of record album”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More books: Interview with a Book Collector<\/a>. Mark Valentine, author, biographer and editor was also the co-publisher in 1988 of my adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Priapus Chandelier<\/a> “features six hand-sculpted phalluses cast in translucent resin, which radiate an atmospheric light.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stewart Lee on Top Gear<\/em><\/a>, in which the comedian and Dodgem Logic<\/em> contributor eviscerates the BBC’s pet trolls.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library put the Voynich Manuscript<\/a> online.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 432-page SteamPunk Magazine<\/em> collection<\/a> with my cover art is now on sale.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble: The Haxan Cloak Interviewed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sunn O))) chapter of The Electric Drone<\/em><\/a> by Gilles Pat\u00e9.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Colonel Blimp<\/em>: The masterpiece Churchill hated<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Submergence<\/em><\/a> (2006) by Greg Haines | Reyja<\/a><\/em> (2011) by Ben Frost & Dan\u00edel Bjarnason | The Fall<\/a><\/em> (2011) by The Haxan Cloak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untitled art by Katie Scott. “…the very fact that people cannot get published by the big-name publishers in the way that they used to has meant that you\u2019ve got some really interesting and often really beautiful little small publishing houses that are springing up and coming into existence. And the stuff that they\u2019re providing is … Continue reading “Weekend links 87”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,851,7,5,48,3,44,23],"tags":[103,2421,3141,3144,1403,355,3145,3143,481,5036,1687,787,3138,3140,114,124,532,2903,354,249,3142,98,2147,3139,2800,8639],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-work","tag-alan-moore","tag-ben-frost","tag-christian-schoeler","tag-daniel-bjarnason","tag-dodgem-logic","tag-emeric-pressburger","tag-frank-miller","tag-gilles-pate","tag-greg-haines","tag-haxan-cloak","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-john-tenniel","tag-katie-scott","tag-laura-hazard-owen","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-lsd","tag-marina-warner","tag-mark-valentine","tag-michael-powell","tag-steampunk","tag-stewart-lee","tag-strange-attractor","tag-sunn-o","tag-tartarus-press","tag-the-haxan-cloak","tag-voynich-manuscript"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2KF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}