The next issue of Digital Art Live will be themed “Maps” (June 2021). As editor I’d welcome, ideally as digital art, such things as…
* A general map of the Dreamlands, or Carter’s routes, or Ulthar (ideally with kitties).
* Curious cross-sectional Lovecraftian diagram-maps, such a hill showing tunnels etc.
* Map of Innsmouth, Dunwich etc.
* ‘Genre map’ of the original Lovecraft + circle tales (as opposed to the Derlethian and later expansions). Might be done as an isometric view of a large haunted colonial mansion and estate. Can go a little beyond Lovecraft’s death and the actual mythos (e.g. “F.B. Long’s Greenhouse of Dangerous Plants”, referencing Long’s wartime ‘alien plant’ stories).
* Guidebook map of an imaginary Lovecraft library/museum in Providence, with suitably whimsical touches.
* Condensed four-page timeline-map of Lovecraft’s life, or a two-page chart of his immediate circle and their connections.
* Map of Lovecraft’s ‘interests and fascinations’ as they waxed and waned during his life.
* A diagram-map of Lovecraft’s science as presented in the fiction, poems and essays.
* Maps relating to the work of his circle, if out-of-copyright. e.g. a ‘purist’ original Conan world map (albeit omitting items that may still be contested by copyright trolls).
* Reworked original public domain maps from the 1920s and 30s, given a Lovecraftian makeover.
* General ‘genre map’ of weird pulp themes and settings before 1950, showing connections and intertwinglings.
And any other artistic maps or timelines you may have to hand and think suitable re: science-fiction, weird fantasy, steampunk, for worlds now in the public domain.
Maps should work as a 4,000 pixel double-page landscape spread, when viewed whole on a widescreen monitor with a height of 1200 pixels.