{"id":15438,"date":"2014-07-22T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:03:12","slug":"lovecraft-demons-et-merveilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/07\/22\/lovecraft-demons-et-merveilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft: D\u00e9mons et Merveilles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UK publisher Titan Books announced earlier this year that they’d be reprinting the first volume of Gl\u00e9nat’s excellent comic-strip adaptation<\/a> of Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels in an English edition, a book that should be out in September. This was a surprise to me when I’ve complained for years that Titan seldom showed any interest at all in Continental comics, despite France and Belgium being over-burdened by world-class creators. I’ve been surprised again this week by the news that Titan will also be reprinting the English edition of Philippe Druillet’s The Six Journeys of Lone Sloane<\/em><\/a> in March next year. Druillet’s books have been unavailable in English editions for decades so this is good news indeed, even if the attention is scandalously late.<\/p>\n

As I noted in the post about Gl\u00e9nat’s Elric<\/em>, Druillet illustrated Moorcock’s albino anti-hero in 1973. The artist is better known for his Lovecraftian depictions, however, even when\u2014as in the adventures of Lone Sloane\u2014the story could easily sustain itself without all those sinister temples, fish people, Cyclopean architecture and the menace of nameless gods. The Lovecraft influence, which can be found in some of his earliest illustrations, comes to the fore in Lovecraft: D\u00e9mons et Merveilles<\/em>, an HP Lovecraft story collection published in an expensive limited edition by \u00c9ditions Opta\/Andr\u00e9 Sauret in 1976. Druillet provided ten colour illustrations plus a design for the boards. Some of these illustrations have since been used on paperback editions of Lovecraft in France, although many of them crop the artwork. Tentacles have become a perennial clich\u00e9 in Lovecraftian art (I should know, I’ve drawn enough of them) so it’s worth noting how few there are in Druillet’s drawings.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Elric 1: Le tr\u00f4ne de rubis<\/a>
\n\u2022 Heavy Metal, October 1979: the Lovecraft special<\/a>
\n\u2022 Philippe Druillet album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet\u2019s vampires<\/a>
\n\u2022 Salammb\u00f4 illustrated<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK publisher Titan Books announced earlier this year that they’d be reprinting the first volume of Gl\u00e9nat’s excellent comic-strip adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels in an English edition, a book that should be out in September. This was a surprise to me when I’ve complained for years that Titan seldom showed any interest at … Continue reading “Lovecraft: D\u00e9mons et Merveilles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,9,22,48,26],"tags":[591,1687,8691,65,863,3117],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","tag-elric","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-lone-sloane","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-philippe-druillet","tag-salammbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","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=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}