The 7th episode in my ongoing series of articles about The Bumper Book has been posted on the Italian web-magazine (Quasi) few days ago.
Below, you can read the extra info that John Coulthart sent me, included in the Italian piece. Enjoy! And... Grazie, John!
The Soul episode 2. I really like the rounded shape of the "strip" images... and the psychedelic feel. We have a Lovecraft reference in the title. And we have also recurring things, like Adeline on the background of "The Discovery of the Archetypal World" illustration seen in a previous section of the book...
John Coulthart: I was also left to my own devices with the Soul illustrations so I decided to vary the presentation slightly for each episode. Since the second one involves a psychedelic ritual I started out with black-and-white line drawings which colour creeps into before exploding in the ritual sequence. I'm not sure where Alan got the title "Discovery of the Archetypal World" from, I think it may be a misattribution since the drawing originally appeared in one of Camille Flammarion's books about astronomy as an illustration showing how the medieval world regarded the cosmos. It does work as an occult illustration, however, so I don't think the misattribution is a problem.
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