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Title spread for The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities<\/a> (2011) edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was surprised this week to find myself nominated as Best Artist in the World Fantasy Awards<\/a>. The results will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in November. Among the books nominated for Best Anthology is the\u00a0Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities<\/em> for which I provided title page designs and some illustrations. Editors Ann & Jeff are well-represented (and ought to win for their landmark The Weird<\/em><\/a> anthology), and I’m pleased to see Mark Valentine receive a nod for his excellent Wormwood<\/em><\/a> magazine. Mark and Roger Dobson published my first Lovecraft adaptation, The Haunter of the Dark<\/em><\/a>, in a large-format edition under their Caermaen imprint in 1988.<\/p>\n

I remember having a conversation with my father about it. I told him what I\u2019d really have liked to find, in my exhaustive search of the canon, was a gay superhero. You know: fucking dudes, saving the world. Never mind the fact that superheroes, with their notoriously contour-hugging apparel, are usually assumed gay by default. I wanted something that had existed, something from history. My father considered my criteria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what you want is Gore Vidal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry Giardina<\/a> on Gore Vidal\u2019s Bully Republic at the Paris Review.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Appreciations and memorials for the late Gore Vidal continue to surface: “He was punk rock with a traditional, smooth exterior. But there was nothing traditional about him, not really. He defied singular category,” says Aaron Tilford<\/a> at Lambda Literary. “Jokes course through Vidal\u2019s entropy-heavy commentaries like a warm, reviving current. They, more than the barbs to which they form a counterpoint, are what make his essays a continuing pleasure to read,” says “J.C.<\/a>” at the TLS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Winterson\u2019s opposition to strict realism is less an artistic critique than a cultural one. She uses the term ‘realism’ to describe an entrenched way of viewing the world, which it is the writer\u2019s duty to challenge.” Hannah Tennant-Moore<\/a> on Jeanette Winterson at n+1.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Ghosts of Bush<\/a> by Robin The Fog: “A final hauntological perambulation around the hidden corners of Bush House, Aldwych, London, June 2012”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “For everything that is not shown, the filmmaker counts on the power of imagination of his viewers.” Lebbeus Woods<\/a> on Chris Marker and La Jet\u00e9e<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Joseph Burnett<\/a> on “Rainbow Ambiguity: Defying conservatism in mainstream LGBT culture”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Leigh Brackett book and magazine covers at Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 BLDGBLOG<\/a> visited the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stilled Life<\/a>: A collection of photography by Thom Ayres.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Underground subversion: Stickers on the Central Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrei Codrescu<\/a> on five favourite Fantastical Tales.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vangelis<\/a> performs an analogue synth freakout for Spanish TV in 1982 | Oro Opus Alter<\/em><\/a>, a track from the forthcoming album by Ufomammut | New World<\/em><\/a>, a track from the forthcoming album by The Irrepressibles. Can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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