Tucked away in the back of Fantasy Classics #15 (2008), newly arrived on Archive.org, another adaptation of Kadath that’s new to me. Rather nicely done and 48 pages.
Another Kadath comic, found…
16 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts
Gary Gianni’s The Call of Cthulhu
09 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Gary Gianni’s illustrated “The Call of Cthulhu” book is shipping. 112 pages with 100+ pencil drawings plus colour inserts. Designed with Marcelo Anciano, it apparently seeks to…
push the boundaries of illustrated books and explore graphic storytelling.
Direct from the publisher Flesk seems the best way to get one before they sell out the print-run.
Inktober 2021
05 Tuesday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Inktober 2021 is here. I’d completely forgotten about it, what with the global Internet melting into a puddle from 1st October onward (better now, including a vital local SSL root certificate Windows/Opera fix, here at Tentaclii).
Obviously potential for Lovecraftian doodling and dwiddling. It’s often assumed that some hand-ground oak-gall inks and hand-plucked swan-quills are required for Inktober, but there’s no reason you can’t join in with more affordable digital tools.
New book: Providence Blue
03 Sunday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraft as character, Lovecraftian arts
Providence Blue is a new ‘Lovecraft as character’ fantasy novel. Warning: general ‘structure-of-the-novel’ spoilers below.
In Rhode Island mysterious creatures were…
encountered by renegade preacher Roger Williams on his historical journey that ended with the founding of Providence, Rhode Island. [Later in Providence] Lovecraft is an accomplished and impish ‘Magus’”.
He investigates these historical encounters, as these seem to have foreshadowed his own monsters and to have links with a real Cthulhu cult. Even later in Providence…
An anxiety-filled former punk-rocker [Wilum Pugmire?], a drifting Athenaeum employee, and an entire cast of unique and well-developed characters find themselves thrown into a puzzling and some harrowing ride around Providence [and beyond]
Catholic World Report newspaper has an interview with the author (with some detailed spoilers, and also a horrid pop-up page-blocking overlay and nags)…
Pinault is a Professor of Religous Studies at Santa Clara University, and a native of Providence. … The author’s Catholic faith is evident throughout the story, as each character seeks redemption and an ultimate answer to the myriad sufferings of mankind.
Sounds fun but there’s no ebook or audiobook version, sadly, just a paperback. Might make for a good chunky graphic novel, by the sound of it, it you were looking for such a book to adapt.
Arkham Reporter on the new VR “Dagon”
01 Friday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Arkham Reporter decides that the new VR story-game DAGON: By H.P. Lovecraft 2021…
is absolutely brilliant.
I’m not sure how easy to parse “brilliant” is, for those outside the UK. It’s a common British word approximating to ‘superb, scintillating, inspired, very pleasing’.
For those without the VR kit / powerful PC to run VR, Arkham Reporter also offers a YouTube run-through. Dagon 2021 is available on Steam.
PulpFest 2021 recordings / Campus Miskatonic 2021
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
PulpFest 2021 now has a new PulpFest 2021: Reviews and Recordings page, linking up the various items. Also a sidebar note that in 2022…
PulpFest Returns to Pittsburgh! PulpFest 50 will begin Thursday, Aug. 4, and run through Sunday, Aug. 7. It will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Please join us for “Action for a Dime!
On reading down the recordings/reviews page one finds the twin themes are announced for 2022…
* the centennial of Fiction House, the pulp magazine and comic-book publisher.
* the ninetieth anniversary of Popular Publications’ ‘Dime’ magazines.
Meanwhile, over in France… this year’s French Lovecraft ‘Campus Miskatonic’ event returns for a second year. It will take place in-person in Verdun (about 100 miles east of Paris) shortly before Halloween 2021. The programme includes…
* Lovecraft’s influence on 20th century comic-books and later pulps. Presumably with reference to French BDs and comics-magazines, as well as to American and British comics.
* Lovecraft’s philosophical and political discussions, and their relevance today.
* What appears(?) to be a general panel discussion with noted French Lovecraftians.
* A screening of The Whisperer in Darkness (2011).
* An RPG games evening.
New book: Providence Blue
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraft as character, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Providence Blue is a new ‘Lovecraft as character’ fantasy novel. Warning: general ‘structure-of-the-novel’ spoilers below.
In Rhode Island mysterious creatures were…
encountered by renegade preacher Roger Williams on his historical journey that ended with the founding of Providence, Rhode Island. [Later in Providence] Lovecraft is an accomplished and impish ‘Magus'”.
He investigates these historical encounters, as these seem to have foreshadowed his own monsters and to have links with a real Cthulhu cult. Even later in Providence…
An anxiety-filled former punk-rocker [Wilum Pugmire?], a drifting Athenaeum employee, and an entire cast of unique and well-developed characters find themselves thrown into a puzzling and some harrowing ride around Providence [and beyond]
Catholic World Report newspaper has an interview with the author (with some detailed spoilers, and also a horrid pop-up page-blocking overlay and nags)…
Pinault is a Professor of Religous Studies at Santa Clara University, and a native of Providence. … The author’s Catholic faith is evident throughout the story, as each character seeks redemption and an ultimate answer to the myriad sufferings of mankind.
Sounds fun but there’s no ebook or audiobook version, sadly, just a paperback. Might make for a good chunky graphic novel, by the sound of it, it you were looking for such a book to adapt.
Kaja Saudek
27 Monday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A superb emulation of Moebius by Kaja Saudek for the cover of the Czechoslovakian pocket edition of “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, Stin nad Innsmouthem (1990).
According to a local site this was the nation’s first non-samizdat taste of Lovecraft after the collapse of communism…
Writings by H. P. Lovecraft appeared on the common Czechoslovak book market as early as 1990 [as a] series of several parts containing the short stories was published by Zlaty kun (the cover and title pages were illustrated by Kaja Saudek).
This comment suggested to me that there were more covers like this, yet to be found. A little digging finds that there are, and you can actually still some of buy them. Although not the Innsmouth one, for some reason. The cover of the 1991 Randolph Carter translation is also ‘very Moebius’. and there are even a couple of R.E. Howard items.
Daildeli Databaze has what appears to be the full set of covers and interior illustrations…
So far as I can tell, though he made many comics during his career, he never did a Lovecraft adaptation. He appears to have developed his own series, such as Arnal, with a faster and more Crumb-like style that could veer toward pop-art.
‘Station of the Boss
27 Monday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New on ArtStation Marketplace, a new videogame-ready rigged Cthulhu for $300. ‘Rigged’ means he has a human-like skeleton setup and can thus be fully posed and animated. The look is a bit too squiddy and squid-ink blue, but that could be fixed.
From the Black Aether…
25 Saturday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
The Hungarian Black Aether has a series surveying international H.P. Lovecraft fan communities over in Europe.
In Hungarian, but now we have a Necronomicon incantation for summoning The Giant Mouth of Many Tongues auto-translation. There’s Google Translate of course, but in-browser the best add-on for extended Web snippets is Simple Translate 2.6.1. The Auto Translate for YouTube captions add-on is also useful at times — it forces subtitles ‘on’ and into English, but don’t expect perfection unless the source diction was very clear, the speaker had a good microphone, and was using non-technical / non-slang language. Mumbling Japanese hipsters, talking techie… not good. Though often amusing.
Not everything on the Black Aether site gets the Lovecraft tag, such as the new review of the old comics anthology Lovecraft Antologia #1.
Weird Tails
22 Wednesday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
I stumbled on the blog of John Houlihan. He has news of several Lovecraftian items from the last year or so, such as the Mythos anthologies which (though not covered by Tentaclii) are continuing to thump down onto doormats.
Specifically Weird Tails… “Mythos fiction inspired by both H.P. Lovecraft and horror fiction’s ongoing fascination with all things feline.” And another devoted to Nyarlathotep tales, N: A Stygian Fox Anthology Concerning the Outer God Nyarlathotep. Glancing at both, I’m reminded that such anthologies could usefully offer aspiring artists / designers a chance at making a decent cover and thus add to their appeal. Or even retired artists such as the superb and still-prolific Bob May.
Weird Tails also has “LOVECRAFT AND CATS” in the TOCs, toward the end, which I’m guessing may perhaps be an essay rather than a story?
Houlihan appears to be involved with the new Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 RPG, which he discusses at length in a recent Innsmouth Book Club podcast…
a chat which encompasses books, Achtung! Cthulhu, computer games, the revenge of the nerds and the inexorable rise of interest in HPL and the Mythos.
Elsewhere, news of Chroniques Oubliees: Cthulhu, a French Lovecraftian 1920s tabletop RPG of 2018—. Seemingly not a translation of an English RPG. It had super-slick character art by Aurore Folny, some of which is now newly online at ArtStation.
New graphic-novel of Dream-Quest
21 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts, New books
A new Lovecraft graphic novel of Dream-Quest, albeit currently only in Spanish. H.P. Lovecraft: Kadath is by screenwriter Florentino Florez, with Guillermo Sanna and Jacques Salomon. It’s been available for a couple of months now and several Amazon reviewers seem pleased with the large BD sized hardback, but neither Amazon or the publisher gives the page count. A little digging puts it at 210 pages.
Looks good, and good enough to get a paid-for English translation.