{"id":19799,"date":"2020-06-22T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19799"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:12:36","slug":"interview-with-the-vampire-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/22\/interview-with-the-vampire-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the vampire illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/illustration1.jpg\" alt=\"illustration1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the many illustrators of Bram Stoker&#8217;s <em>Dracula<\/em> are the subject of a six-page feature in the latest issue of <em>Illustration<\/em> magazine. The writer of the piece, Simon Cooke, asked me a few questions about the edition I worked on for Editorial Alma in 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/06\/01\/illustrating-dracula\/\">previously<\/a>), and he devotes two pages to analysing my illustrations. I was a little unnerved by this since Alma asked me to produce 27 full-page pictures\u2014one for each chapter\u2014in five weeks, which isn&#8217;t the kind of deadline I prefer for work that requires so much historical research. Consequently, I still feel the book is compromised but people evidently like the end results so I should stop complaining. <em>Illustration<\/em> magazine is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cellopress.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cello Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/illustration2.jpg\" alt=\"illustration2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for my work of the moment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeattractor.co.uk\/shoppe\/hawkwind-days-of-the-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Banks Hawkwind book<\/a> will be published by Strange Attractor in the next few weeks, so everyone will finally get to see my Frank R. Paul-derived wraparound cover. And there&#8217;s more science fiction on the way with a new cover design featuring a robot as its centrepiece. Watch this space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/illustration3.jpg\" alt=\"illustration3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/illustration4.jpg\" alt=\"illustration4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/illustration5.jpg\" alt=\"illustration5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/09\/06\/hawkwind-days-of-the-underground\/\">Hawkwind: Days of the Underground<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/06\/01\/illustrating-dracula\/\">Illustrating Dracula<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the many illustrators of Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula are the subject of a six-page feature in the latest issue of Illustration magazine. The writer of the piece, Simon Cooke, asked me a few questions about the edition I worked on for Editorial Alma in 2018 (previously), and he devotes two pages to analysing my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/22\/interview-with-the-vampire-illustrator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with the vampire illustrator&#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":"New blog post: Interview with the vampire illustrator","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":[2,42,22,48,43,20,23],"tags":[1172,977,9211,2787,222,3718,10709,98],"class_list":["post-19799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-bram-stoker","tag-dracula","tag-editorial-alma","tag-frank-r-paul","tag-hawkwind","tag-joe-banks","tag-simon-cooke","tag-strange-attractor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-59l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799","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=19799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}