{"id":45291,"date":"2021-02-23T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=45291"},"modified":"2021-02-23T05:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T02:32:04","slug":"druillets-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/druillets-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Druillet&#8217;s Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now at last I understand why the French so closely associate the <em>Metal Hurlant<\/em> artist Druillet with Lovecraft. It wasn&#8217;t just the <em>Metal Hurlant<\/em> work etc. His art was used for the covers of their seminal paperback series, and a great many of the French must have first encountered their Lovecraft that way. I&#8217;d never seen these before, still less all in one place, and I guess they must be so collectable and\/or cherished that they&#8217;re rarely seen for sale. Anyway, here&#8217;s the set of covers, in the largest versions of each that I could find.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-kadath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-kadath.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"867\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-mountains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-mountains.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"880\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-dagon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-dagon.jpg?w=400\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-innsmouth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-innsmouth.jpg?w=496\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-cthulhu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-cthulhu.jpg?w=423\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"694\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-ward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-ward.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"842\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-dunwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-dunwich.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"742\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-nightocean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-nightocean.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"790\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last appears to be an anomaly in terms of the design. I&#8217;m guessing that the &#8220;et Derleth&#8221; on the cover might mean it&#8217;s &#8220;The Colour out of Space&#8221; fronting some of Derleth&#8217;s posthumous collaborations?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/druillet-space.jpg?w=402\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now at last I understand why the French so closely associate the Metal Hurlant artist Druillet with Lovecraft. It wasn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/druillets-lovecraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}