Above and below, preview pictures of the dummy for the three-volumes-in-a-slipcase edition of Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
Jerusalem will be published this September by Knockabout.
Jerusalem will be published this September by Knockabout.
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 10, 2016
This is an IMAGINARY STORY... aren't they all?
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| Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Alan Moore: Writer - Curt Swan & George Pérez: Artists. |
This is an IMAGINARY STORY (which may never happen, but then again may) about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good. It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his enemies conspired against him and of that final war in the snowblind wastes beneath the Northern Lights; of the women he loved and of the choice he made between them; of how he broke his most sacred oath, and how finally all the things he had were taken from him save one. It ends with a wink. It begins in a quiet midwestern town, one summer afternoon in the quiet midwestern future. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky... but no: it's only a bird, only a plane — Superman died ten years ago. This is an IMAGINARY STORY...
Aren't they all?
Jul 6, 2016
Jerusalem first review
Excerpt from Kirkus review posted online June 22nd, 2016.
"Mind-meld James Michener, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King and you'll approach the territory the endlessly inventive Moore stakes out in his most magnum of magna opera.
[...] Magisterial: an epic that outdoes Danielewski, Vollmann, Stephenson, and other worldbuilders in vision and depth."
The complete review is available here.
Jul 2, 2016
Kurt Hathaway: lettering Providence
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| Lettering by Kurt Hathaway from Providence N. 3. |
Excerpt from an interview with Providence's letterer Kurt Hathaway.
"Providence utilizes multiple fonts for various different characters from Salem’s fish-men hybrids, to Willard Wheatley, to the ghoul King George. Even Neonomicon‘s Deep One has his own font. How did you come up with the lettering style for each of these?
Kurt Hathaway: These are outlined by Alan in some way - no specific font, per se, but an idea of what he’d like to see graphically. A short description of the font style - and balloon style - maybe a color note - I then put together something I think may fit the bill.
This is something I do on a fairly regular basis on other series and graphic novels anyway, so I’m always prepared to put together something.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time designing all kinds of caption and balloon styles, so I have a gallery of styles to choose from when the request comes in. I have ghost balloons, and zombie balloons and all kindsa crazy styles already prepped in advance. I can usually grab one of those, and make a tweak or two to make it suit the book’s needs.
In Providence #3, there is a tiny unreadable font coming from some of the Terrible Old Man’s bottles. One of our readers actually took photos of it through a microscope device. A somewhat similar font appears in Providence #7 as Pitman and King George walk away. Are these just stand-ins for indistinct speech, or is there more to it that you would explain?
Kurt Hathaway: I’d forgotten about the bottles until I looked at my page file a few days ago - I was trying to locate one of the balloon styles to match it again. Not that one - another one, but it crossed my radar all the same. The bottles contain tiny people if I’m not mistaken, so that balloon indicates to the reader two things - there’s a tiny person in the bottle - and they’re voice is so low in volume, that its content is indistinguishable. But the balloon draws the eye to the bottle. It’s a clever storytelling device."
Kurt Hathaway: These are outlined by Alan in some way - no specific font, per se, but an idea of what he’d like to see graphically. A short description of the font style - and balloon style - maybe a color note - I then put together something I think may fit the bill.
This is something I do on a fairly regular basis on other series and graphic novels anyway, so I’m always prepared to put together something.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time designing all kinds of caption and balloon styles, so I have a gallery of styles to choose from when the request comes in. I have ghost balloons, and zombie balloons and all kindsa crazy styles already prepped in advance. I can usually grab one of those, and make a tweak or two to make it suit the book’s needs.
In Providence #3, there is a tiny unreadable font coming from some of the Terrible Old Man’s bottles. One of our readers actually took photos of it through a microscope device. A somewhat similar font appears in Providence #7 as Pitman and King George walk away. Are these just stand-ins for indistinct speech, or is there more to it that you would explain?
Kurt Hathaway: I’d forgotten about the bottles until I looked at my page file a few days ago - I was trying to locate one of the balloon styles to match it again. Not that one - another one, but it crossed my radar all the same. The bottles contain tiny people if I’m not mistaken, so that balloon indicates to the reader two things - there’s a tiny person in the bottle - and they’re voice is so low in volume, that its content is indistinguishable. But the balloon draws the eye to the bottle. It’s a clever storytelling device."
[The complete interview is available here]