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Resurrecting R’lyeh
Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen’s command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9′, W. Longitude 126°43′, come upon...
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Jam III (2021) by Kotaro Hoshiyama. • “Powell and Pressburger are peerless in realizing what Orson Welles would term plotless scenes—extra bits that ostensibly do not advance the story, but are a...
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Cover of Tom Veitch Magazine #1 (1970). • RIP Tom Veitch, a writer with whom I almost created a comic-book series in the 1990s. Things didn’t work out for a variety of reasons but we had some good...
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Pillow Studies (1493) by Albrecht Dürer. • “Without ever writing a song, without ever fronting a group, Khan changed the face of British music.” Michael Hann talks to Morgan Khan about bringing New...
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Diane (1977) by Mimi Parent. • Richard Pinhas expounds upon his favourite musical choices for Warren Hatter. The influence of Robert Fripp has always been to the fore in the Pinhas oeuvre—an early...
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Ghost Power
This week I’ve been enjoying the Ghost Power album, a collection of groovy instrumentals from Tim Gane and Jeremy Novak. A heavier use of synthesizers and samples than you usually hear from Gane,...
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Invasion revisited
More Borges. Recent posts about the Venerable Jorge had me searching again for a subtitled copy of Hugo Santiago’s Invasion, the feature film he made in Argentina in 1969 from a script co-written with...
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Soap Bubble (1882) by Alexandre-Blaise Desgoffe. Via. • “…there is not now, has never been, and will never be a single Platonic form of the paragraph to which all others must conform.” Richard Hughes...
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Untitled painting by Oliver Frey based on The Wild Boys by William Burroughs. • RIP Oliver Frey, a prolific illustrator and comic artist whose art for UK computer magazines in the 1980s made a lasting...
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A local dispute on the planet Mars. Art by Kevin O’Neill from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. • “…this image has puzzled enthusiasts of the scientific mystic’s works, both for its obscure...
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Kafka’s machine
• In der Strafkolonie (In the Penal Colony, 1919), a short story by Franz Kafka “Yes, the harrow,” said the Officer. “The name fits. The needles are arranged as in a harrow, and the whole thing is...
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A detail from Tom Phillips’ cover design for Starless And Bible Black (1974) by King Crimson. • RIP Tom Phillips. The term “polymath” is often used by monomaths to describe people who are proficient...
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Mobius Strip II (1963) by MC Escher. • Old music: Warp Records is reissuing two recent Jon Hassell discs later this year: The Living City (Hassell’s ensemble playing live in NYC, 1989) and...
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L’île des Morts
In Philippe’s studio there was always against a wall this large canvas sketched in the 80s on the theme of the Isle of the Dead. During a work session on the print, I asked him if he intended to...
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Echoes of de Chirico
The Song of Love (1914) by Giorgio de Chirico. His art studies, begun in Athens, were continued in Munich where he discovered the work of Max Klinger and Arnold Böcklin, not to mention the writings of...
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Kris Guidio, 1953–2023
A self-portrait, 2011. Farewell to the artist I used to refer to as my partner in art-crime. We weren’t really criminals but in the 1990s we’d both seen our published works for Savoy Books condemned...
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Love (1973), a poster by Nicole Claveloux. • “Warner Brothers had been keen on a Rolling Stones movie. Jagger was keen on being a movie star. But Donald Cammell’s script was no Beatles’ jolly japes...
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Bugged by Jaffee
This one is for my own benefit as much as anyone else’s. Last week, after reading about the late Al Jaffee, I went looking for the panel you see above, a minor item in a much longer Jaffee feature for...
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Saga de Xam revived
Saga est magnifique. Saga a la peau bleue. Saga est une extraterrestre. Envoyée par la reine de la planète Xam, la voici qui parcourt la Terre à plusieurs époques, traitées dans des styles différents....
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Butterfly (1988) by Ay-O. • “[Mike] Jay says there are notional lessons to be learned about what happens next from the characters who populate Psychonauts but says they would have been of greatest...
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X-ray visions
Cover art by George Wilson. Cosmic weirdness isn’t something you expect to find in the tie-in comics published by Gold Key in the 1960s, but this adaptation of Roger Corman’s film contains a few such...
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Toytown psychedelia
The Teletrips of Alala (1970). The imaginative landscapes of childhood were always close at hand in the psychedelic culture of the 1960s, more so in Britain than the USA, and especially where music...
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Worlds Beyond Time
Or yesterday’s tomorrow today. Adam Rowe’s book arrived in the post this weekend, a little bumped at the corners (art books often suffer at the hands of the postal services) but very welcome all the...
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Imaginary (no date) by Sidney Sime. • Victor Rees was in touch this week to alert me to a one-off screening of The Gourmet (previously), a cult TV drama from 1986 written by Kazuo Ishiguro and...
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Contained Maze (1966) by Michael Ayrton. • At Public Domain Review: Skeletons (1692) by Ikkyu, a Japanese monk, whose book is “a mixture of poetry and prose that comes down to us in printed editions...
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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion
It’s the “S” word again. I said at the beginning of this month that I was looking forward to seeing where this interest led, and here we are. My recent reading has included Penelope Rosemont’s...
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Moon and Serpent Rising
Top Shelf announced this one on Friday so I can break my silence about the book I’ve been working on since May 2021. The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and Steve Moore was first...
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The Vision of Endymion (1902) by Edward John Poynter. • The Art and History of Lettering Comics by Todd Klein. Eight of the pages in the forthcoming Moon & Serpent book have been lettered by Todd....
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Monaco on Resnais
After watching Providence again I yielded to further temptation and ordered a copy of the book that first introduced me to the film itself and to the Resnais oeuvre as a whole. I’d been itching for...
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Space is one trip: the Hawkwind takes off
1: The album Back in the 1990s, when it became apparent that record companies were committed to never-ending CD reissues of their most popular albums, I suggested to a friend that this development...
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