{"id":3261,"date":"2008-07-01T01:09:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T00:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/01\/new-things-for-july-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:02:32","slug":"new-things-for-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/01\/new-things-for-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New things for July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johnevans\/256958608\/sizes\/l\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/leyendecker_flapper.jpg\" alt=\"leyendecker_flapper.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Flapper by Frank X Leyendecker, Life magazine (1922). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2008 is turning out to be a great year for Lovecraft aficionados. As well as the stupendous <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/28\/the-monstrous-tome\/\">Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by HP Lovecraft<\/a><\/em>, we&#8217;re also awaiting Frank Woodford&#8217;s feature length documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/wyrdstuff.com\/?cat=8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;m lucky to have my work included in Frank&#8217;s film which is easily the best documentary to date concerning the life and work of HPL. Among the interviewees are Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Caitlin R Kiernan, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell and Lovecraft scholar ST Joshi. The film will receive its first (?) public screening later this month at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Comic Con<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 24<br \/>\n8:00\u20139:45pm<br \/>\nRoom 26AB<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Over the weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/magpie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arthur Magazine<\/em><\/a> cleared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/27\/arthur-magazine-needs-20000-by-july-1-or-it-will-die\/\">the $20,000 it needed to keep running<\/a> before the three-day deadline elapsed. A stunning piece of fund-raising which shows how much people value Jay and company&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The gorgeous cover above is the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanartarchives.com\/leyendeceker,fx.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Frank X Leyendecker<\/a> (1876\u20131924), brother of the more well-known (and gay) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtq.com\/arts\/leyendecker_jc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph C Leyendecker<\/a>. Makes me think I should make a post of Butterfly Women if only as an excuse to track down more pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f1\/Loie_Fuller.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Loie Fuller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Last but not least: happy birthday Lorraine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flapper by Frank X Leyendecker, Life magazine (1922). \u2022 2008 is turning out to be a great year for Lovecraft aficionados. As well as the stupendous Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by HP Lovecraft, we&#8217;re also awaiting Frank Woodford&#8217;s feature length documentary, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown. I&#8217;m lucky to have my work included in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/01\/new-things-for-july-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New things for July&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,7,5,22,48,26,43,23],"tags":[1164,605,255,604,1687,680,301,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-magazines","category-work","tag-arthur-magazine","tag-caitlin-r-kiernan","tag-frank-x-leyendecker","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-john-carpenter","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-peter-straub","tag-ramsey-campbell","tag-st-joshi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-QB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}