{"id":14448,"date":"2013-10-26T02:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:05:21","slug":"jk-potter-and-hp-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/26\/jk-potter-and-hp-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Potter and HP Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hm1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hm1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American artist <a href=\"http:\/\/jkpotter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JK Potter<\/a> is another photo-montagist whose work since the 1970s has been very popular as illustration for books of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Potter&#8217;s portrait of HP Lovecraft on the October 1979 issue of <em>Heavy Metal<\/em> was my first introduction to his work. The original version of that picture can be seen below. Despite Potter&#8217;s flair for horror imagery there&#8217;s\u00a0fewer Lovecraft illustrations than you might expect, certainly fewer than I used to hope there might be, although tentacles\u2014real ones\u2014do feature in a number of his other pictures.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject, HPL continues to dog my footsteps. I recently autographed an enormous block of contributor signing sheets for a new doorstop anthology from Centipede Press. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Mountain-Walked-H-P-Lovecraft\/dp\/1613470533\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Mountain Walked<\/em><\/a> is a 636-page collection edited by Lovecraft scholar ST Joshi which will be published in March, 2014. Be warned that like many other Centipede volumes it won&#8217;t be cheap! Meanwhile I&#8217;m currently working on a new series of illustrations for a completely different anthology of Lovecraftian fiction. That will also be out early next year. It&#8217;s going to be a good one but I&#8217;ll say more about it at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"potter1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/potter1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"potter2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/potter2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"potter3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/potter3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1990).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-lovecraft-archive\/\">The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American artist JK Potter is another photo-montagist whose work since the 1970s has been very popular as illustration for books of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Potter&#8217;s portrait of HP Lovecraft on the October 1979 issue of Heavy Metal was my first introduction to his work. The original version of that picture can be seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/26\/jk-potter-and-hp-lovecraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JK Potter and HP Lovecraft&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,22,48,26,43,12],"tags":[104,1687,3482,608],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-magazines","category-photography","tag-cthulhu","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jk-potter","tag-st-joshi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3L2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","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=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}