I just plunked down $200 for this blanket illustrated by cartoonist Charles Burns (Black Hole, X'd Out, Big Baby). Last year I bought the Jim Woodring blanket (still available!) and I was so impressed by the quality, I didn't hesitate to get the Burns blanket. — Read the rest
Most people familiar with the Pinocchio story likely know it through the 1940 Disney animated film, or one of the many animated or live action films that have followed. The original Carlo Collodi fantasy novel from the late 1800s is far darker and more surreal than most of the adaptations that have followed. — Read the rest
I just pledged $200 for a woven cotton blanket with a Jim Woodring design. It's one of three blankets offered in Beehive Books' latest Kickstarter, Illuminated Tapestries, featuring original artwork from Woodring, Lisa Hanawalt, and Yuko Shimzu.
Each is limited to an edition of five hundred pieces, never to be re-released. — Read the rest
Last week, we got news that acclaimed comics artist Ronald Wimberly's webcomic, GratNin, was heading to Kickstarter for a fancy boxed accordion-style print version of the "endless scrolling" comic.
From the press release:
— Read the restCartoonist and storyteller extraordinaire Ronald Wimberly and Philadelphia-based boutique publisher Beehive Books are launching a Kickstarter campaign for the first-ever print edition of Wimberly's critically-acclaimed, endless scroll webcomic GratNin.
I'm a huge fan of Beehive Books, which creates illuminated editions of classic books illustrated by contemporary artists. They are doing a Kickstarter for a new series of three books:
Josh O'Neill writes, "We're doing a box set edition of Dracula in which we reconstitute the novel into the primary source documents from which it's drawn: Mina's diary, Lucy's letters, Dailygraph newspaper clippings, even an actual phonograph record from Dr. Seward. — Read the rest
The next tranche of Beehive Books' Illuminated Editions are being crowdfunded now: three gorgeous, slipcased, deluxe illustrated hardcovers, including a new edition of Crime & Punishment, illustrated by Dave McKean, well-known for his work on Sandman (he also did the original cover for my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town); the books are $100 each, and are superb. — Read the rest
Zachary Zmith writes, "A Kickstarter is funding beautifully-designed and illustrated editions of classic stories, with illustrations from Paul Pope, Yuko Shimizu and Bill Sienkiewicz. They have already met their initial goal to fund a version of Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows' with art by Paul Pope. — Read the rest
Beehive Books is kickstarting a super-deluxe book of the work of Herbert Crowley, who was kind of an early 20th Century Jim Woodring.
— Read the restThe cartoonist, painter, illustrator, and sculptor Herbert Crowley was an innovator at the dawn of comics, and a defining figure of the early 20th century New York City avant garde art scene.
