{"id":4929,"date":"2009-04-15T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T01:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2010-09-23T04:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:59:44","slug":"new-things-for-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/15\/new-things-for-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New things for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/drive-in.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4930\" title=\"drive-in.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/drive-in.jpg\" alt=\"drive-in.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/drive-in.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/drive-in-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I drew attention yesterday to the abraded look of the <em>Taking Woodstock<\/em> poster and mentioned a recent book design of mine which used a similar effect. This is that cover, created for a collection of Joe R Lansdale&#8217;s horror novels coming soon from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underlandpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Underland Press<\/a>. Lansdale is known mainly for being the writer of the story which Don Coscarelli adapted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0281686\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bubba Ho-tep<\/em><\/a> in 2002 (a great film, incidentally) but he&#8217;s done a lot more besides. Find out more at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joerlansdale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While on the subject of self-promotion, the invent-your-own-band website Figment <a href=\"http:\/\/news.figment.cc\/2009\/04\/14\/john-coulthart-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted an interview<\/a> with me as a complement to their cover art competition which I&#8217;ve been judging. Results of that will be announced at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of interviews, I&#8217;ll mention again Jay Babcock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/2009\/04\/13\/a-conversation-with-rick-veitch-with-an-introduction-by-alan-moore\/\" target=\"_blank\">exclusive interview\/feature<\/a> with comic artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickveitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Veitch<\/a> over at <em>Arthur<\/em>. Rick&#8217;s an artist I&#8217;ve always had a lot of time for and this piece includes a special intro\/appreciation by collaborator Alan Moore. The interview examines the serious business of dreaming, with Rick&#8217;s advice on using your dreams for artistic breakthroughs, personal growth, problem solving, and time\/space travel.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/07\/sleeve-craft\/\">Sleeve craft<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/10\/finch\/\" target=\"_self\">Finch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew attention yesterday to the abraded look of the Taking Woodstock poster and mentioned a recent book design of mine which used a similar effect. This is that cover, created for a collection of Joe R Lansdale&#8217;s horror novels coming soon from Underland Press. Lansdale is known mainly for being the writer of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/15\/new-things-for-april-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New things for April&#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":[42,9,4,22,3,23],"tags":[103,337,1801,1760,332,505],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-horror","category-music","category-work","tag-alan-moore","tag-figment","tag-jay-babcock","tag-joe-r-lansdale","tag-rick-veitch","tag-underland-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}