{"id":7310,"date":"2010-06-12T03:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2010-06-12T03:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T02:11:03","slug":"dodgem-logic-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/12\/dodgem-logic-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgem Logic #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The magazine isn’t out for another couple of weeks but my cover art has been posted to various websites so I can finally show this here. Alan Moore was in touch at the beginning of February asking for a wraparound cover design, the only brief being that he liked my Alice in Wonderland calendar<\/a> and asked for something equally florid or\u2014for want of a better term\u2014psychedelic. Alan’s magazine<\/a> owes something to the underground mags of the 1960s and a common feature of those, especially Oz<\/em> magazine, was a degree of provocation in the choice of cover art. A picture of two boys kissing is nothing more than a show of affection yet to many people the sight still inspires enormous outrage. This was demonstrated a week or so after I’d finished the cover when the Washington Post<\/em> was deluged by angry letters and emails<\/a> after they showed a photo of two newly-weds outside the Washington DC Superior Court. People used to have a similar reaction to the sight of a black man kissing a white woman; the only way attitudes change is when something becomes so commonplace it’s no longer worthy of note.<\/p>\n

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Aside from the politics, this was also an excuse to run riot with more Art Nouveau motifs, especially peacocks and butterflies. The butterfly-winged boys are a nod to the paintings of Yannis Tsarouchis<\/a>, and this in turn gave me an excuse to borrow from another magazine cover, Frank X Leyendecker’s 1922 painting of The Flapper<\/a> for Life<\/em>. Frank X was the brother of the more renowned illustrator JC Leyendecker. Joseph C was known to have been discreetly homosexual; so too was brother Frank according to this article<\/a> in which case his butterfly woman has an additional resonance.<\/p>\n

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Having written a lengthy polemic<\/a> about Roger Dean’s work in January I had the idea of doing the magazine title in his lettering style. I spent the best part of two days working on these as I wanted the result to be as accurate as possible. All the gold parts of the cover shown here are gradients but I made a slightly different version for print which will render those areas in gold ink. I’m looking forward to seeing this printed.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Roger Dean: artist and designer<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910\u20131989<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dodgem Logic<\/a>
\n\u2022 Psychedelic Wonderland: the 2010 calendar<\/a>
\n\u2022 Butterfly women<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The magazine isn’t out for another couple of weeks but my cover art has been posted to various websites so I can finally show this here. Alan Moore was in touch at the beginning of February asking for a wraparound cover design, the only brief being that he liked my Alice in Wonderland calendar and … Continue reading “Dodgem Logic #4”<\/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":[58,4,5,48,43,14,17,23],"tags":[103,1403,255,1404,444,903,950],"class_list":["post-7310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-design","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-politics","category-psychedelia","category-work","tag-alan-moore","tag-dodgem-logic","tag-frank-x-leyendecker","tag-jc-leyendecker","tag-peacocks","tag-roger-dean","tag-yannis-tsarouchis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1TU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310","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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}