{"id":3166,"date":"2008-05-30T01:20:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/30\/horror-comics\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T19:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:02:03","slug":"horror-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/30\/horror-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/RunningPress\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0786720727\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/horror.jpg\" alt=\"horror.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More horror&#8230;. It&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything work-related here, not because I haven&#8217;t been busy but because much of the work this year is still waiting to see the light of day as a result of protracted schedules.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics<\/em> is an anthology from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/RunningPress\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0786720727\" target=\"_blank\">Running Press<\/a> (US) that really is mammoth\u2014over 540 pages\u2014and includes a reprinting of my <em>Dunwich Horror<\/em> pages from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/haunter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Haunter of the Dark<\/em><\/a>. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You can see the selections in the Sprout widget below<\/span>. (Not any more you can&#8217;t. Sprout decided to make everyone pay for their previously free service. Bye bye, Sprout.) It feels a bit fraudulent being in there since my drawings are more illustrations than a comics adaptation but I imagine most people buying the book will be happy to see poor old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/haunter\/whateley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wilbur Whateley&#8217;s demise<\/a> receive another airing. Many of the featured strips are in the hokey EC mould which is often more comic than horror (one reason I was never very taken with EC) but the material gets better as it goes along and it&#8217;s a pleasure to be in anything with an artist as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaluta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Kaluta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tdh_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tdh.jpg\" alt=\"tdh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Dunwich Horror, title page (1988). <\/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>More horror&#8230;. It&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything work-related here, not because I haven&#8217;t been busy but because much of the work this year is still waiting to see the light of day as a result of protracted schedules. The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics is an anthology from Running Press (US) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/30\/horror-comics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horror comics&#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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,42,9,22,26,23],"tags":[1132],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-books","category-comics","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-work","tag-mike-kaluta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-P4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}