{"id":42072,"date":"2020-09-08T05:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T02:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=42072"},"modified":"2020-09-08T05:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T02:55:42","slug":"two-new-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/two-new-graphic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"New graphic novels – “Red Hook”, “Herbert West” and “Mountains”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new Italian graphic novel of Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”<\/a>. It’s actually more a Euro-style ‘BD album’ in page-count and large 17″ x 24″ size. The book shipped in July 2020. <\/p>\n

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The artist is Stefano Cardoselli. The publisher also offer his “Herbert West”<\/a> (March 2020) and his the Lovecraftian “The Inhabitant of The Lake” by Ramsey Campbell<\/a> is due in December 2020. Could be an opportunity here for an Anglosphere publisher to translate and bundle all three. <\/p>\n

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There’s also yet another graphic novel of At The Mountains of Madness<\/em>, from Adam Fyda. This appeared in July…<\/p>\n

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British illustrator Dave Shephard has also announced what appears to be a melding of “Dagon” and “The Call of Cthulhu”, which bills itself in the book’s title as a “graphic novel” — but in the blurb as an “illustrated adaptation”. Due Spring 2021.<\/p>\n

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Also in graphic novels, The View from the Junkyard<\/a><\/em> recently found a neglected Lovecraftian gem in a graphic novel titled Weird Detective<\/em>…<\/p>\n

The story takes detective fiction and merges it sublimely with the Cthulhu Mythos in ways I\u2019ve seen only in such great books as Shadows over Baker Street<\/em>; a collection of short stories pitting the Great Detective [Holmes] against the Great Old Ones. Finding something similar in graphic novel format is a treat!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A character that looks like Lovecraft, and he has a talking cat. I like it already.<\/p>\n

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The View from the Junkyard<\/em>‘s review also notes his disappointment in discovering that this graphic novel was a trade from 2017 (per-issues 2016), and there have been no more in the years since. He wryly points to the huge difficulty involved in simply finding out about completed-story graphics novels of the pulp entertainment type, which get swamped by endless weekly tidal-waves of manga, superhero, and depressive art-school wrist-slashers…<\/p>\n

I might need to hire a weird detective to help me find more like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. In the meantime Weird Detective<\/em> is currently \u00a39.99<\/a> for Kindle on Amazon UK, where for some reason it’s been saddled by Dark Horse with a retro Ditko-like cover that really doesn’t reflect the quality of Guiu Villanova’s interior artwork or layouts. It has about 110 pages of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new Italian graphic novel of Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”. It’s actually more a Euro-style ‘BD album’ …<\/p>\n

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