{"id":61430,"date":"2023-09-04T01:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=61430"},"modified":"2023-09-04T01:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:11:43","slug":"recent-and-forthcoming-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/recent-and-forthcoming-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent and forthcoming comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for a look at comics.<\/p>\n

The delayed single-volume Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath<\/em> collected comics series \/ graphic-novel should be shipping in about two weeks, just in time for the ‘student grant-money arrival’ season. Also to be available as a Kindle ebook<\/a>. I see there’s also to be a French single-volume edition of this recent Kadath<\/em> series of comics, with the French translation due early November 2023.<\/p>\n

There’s also a French graphic novel or ‘BD’, Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft<\/em> (‘The Last Day of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’). No page-count that I can find, but presumably it’ll be the usual ‘BD’ length and large page dimensions. <\/p>\n

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Set to ship just before Halloween 2023…<\/p>\n

Romuald Giulivo and artist Jakub Rebelka bring us the dreamlike story of Lovecraft’s final moments in the form of interior dialogues, [in which he] revisits his imaginary lands, memories, his anger and his grey areas. We follow the last journey of a complex and tortured man [who is] convinced that only a comforting eternal night awaits men at the moment of their death. But isn’t an author inherently immortal thanks to his stories of which we are the custodians? Constructed like a strange Gothic cathedral, Lovecraft’s Last Day is an extraordinary graphic novel turning the end of a man into the beginning of a myth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds good, though only in French. One would have thought that the French ‘BD’ industry would have installed a streamlined AI-assisted insta-translation system by now. They must be missing out on a large chunk of revenue by not doing so. They have so much<\/em> quality content and back-catalogue material. For grown-ups, self-contained complete stories, great art. Many English readers would gladly pay $10 for that, in ebook.<\/p>\n

Later in the year, we have a new maybe-perhaps shipping date for Gou Tanabe’s mammoth H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth<\/em> graphic novel manga adaptation, in the English Dark Horse translation. Like the single-volume Kadath<\/em>, this has been much delayed. But Amazon is now suggesting possible UK in-your-hands delivery by 7th December 2023.<\/p>\n

By the way, I was able to read The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence<\/em> graphic novel. Hmmm… entertaining in a ‘Neil Gaiman meets Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’<\/em> sort of way. Very beautiful artwork and lettering. But not really<\/em> about the Lovecraft I recognise.<\/p>\n

And it looks like the older graphic novel \/ comics biography Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> is now firmly out-of-print. Time for a new affordable e-book edition from PS Publishing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time for a look at comics. The delayed single-volume Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath collected comics series \/ graphic-novel should be shipping …<\/p>\n

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