ComicBookResources, ever the amazing site for comic related news, has posted an official press release announcing the hard cover version of Joe Hill’s “Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft”. We’re looking at 152 pages of hardcover goodness, illustrated by the same artist who did Clive Barker’s “The Great and Secret Show”, for only $24.99, set to be released on October 1.
ComicBookResources has much more details.
Art and comics. Two great things, that often go hand in hand, much to the argument of certain elitist types. ComicBookResources has a press release about Ben Templesmith’s soon to be released “Art of Wormwood”, a collection of artwork from the “Wormwood” comic series.
Templesmith’s visual approach, which has been described as “daring, horrific, and sometimes just plain perverse” has gained a cult following for his work in graphic novels including 30 Days of Night, Fell, Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse and more recently Welcome to Hoxford. He has said he is influenced by the science-fantasy cosmos of H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones and the work of H.R. Giger.
Read more details about the book and special edition hard cover at ComicBookResources.
Comic(s) Relief has up a mini review of the French graphic novel “Les Mondes de Lovecraft”. Read the review at Comic(s) Relief.
Comic Book Resources has just interviewed cover illustrator J.K. Woodward and interior artist Andrew Ritchie about BOOM! Comics’ upcoming “Necronomicon”. Issue #1 is set for an August release. To read what Woodward and Ritchie have to say about drawing for this Lovecraftian comic, a little about what they’ve worked on before, and to see some of the artwork, head on over to Comic Book Resources.
What could be more awesome than comic books, pulp horror, H.P. Lovecraft, or video games? How about all of these rolled up into one Penny Arcade game? Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” has gone gold, which means we’re oh so much closer to playing the game ourselves! The game will be available for download for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and the XBOX 360 all for about $20 each.
I don’t know how I missed it, but today is Free Comic Book Day! You should still have time to head on out to your local comic book shop and grab a couple copies of whatever’s on stock. They have a few good looking pulp and weird fiction styled ones.
Have fun! And buy a not so free comic while you’re at it!
I like comics. I also like Horror and Lovecraft. In my scouring of the web, I happened to come across an article at Vanguard on Dark Horse artist Todd Herman and his thoughts on comics and it’s art. Scanning this article I came across this line:
Currently, he just finished a work called On the Surf Tortured Shore, a short-form comic about Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft walking down a beach–very apropos to Herman’s taste and artistic style.
You can find Scott’s site at this link, and by clicking the “Lovecraft” menu item at the left, you’ll find a link to the “On the Surf Tortured Shore” at the bottom of the main screen. Or you can click here.
Comic Book Resources has some info on the comic book mini-series “Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft”, the follow-up to the “Haunt of Horror: Poe” mini-series. It looks like we might be seeing comic adaptations of stories covering Dagon, Arthur Jermyn, and the Egyptian pyramids. Fun!
Check it out at Comic Book Resources.
