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Post by lemming13 on Aug 16, 2010 14:08:51 GMT
I know it's way, way modern stuff, but I'm surprised to find nothing on Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's groundbreaking 30 Days of Night series here. I know that some of the outings were very much filler material, just milking the franchise for all it's worth, but the first three graphic novels alone (30 Days, Dark Days and Return to Barrow), along with Red Snow, are such wonderful work, both on art and story, that I just had to give them a mention. I'll try and post an image here, forgive me if it goes to pot.  |
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 16, 2010 14:11:52 GMT
This was supposed to be part of the original post but I had issues with the image, sorry. And Templesmith is also responsible for the Wormwood stories - Wormwood Gentleman Corpse, It Only Hurts When I Pee and Calamari Rising, all incredibly funny and innovative works that I recommend without reservation.  |
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 18, 2010 14:05:28 GMT
 Okay, I'm a bit obsessive with the Ben Templesmith, but his work is just so damn good I love to share it. Fell is another series of his, concerning Snowtown, a creepy, decaying urban hellhole, and a detective dumped in it to try and deal with it. Really atmospheric and eerie. He's also been involved with a number of pastiche series such as The Looking Glass Wars, The Irregulars, and graphic versions of Dracula and Robert Bloch's Lori. |
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Post by dem on Aug 18, 2010 22:07:06 GMT
i can certainly see the appeal. just scrutinised Feral City on Amazon and i love the gloomy tower block ("My new home. I think maybe a lot of people killed themselves here") and decrepit street scenes - atmospheric, that's the word i'm looking for - and you sure can't argue with a sinister nun. to be honest, i'm terrified of graphic novels - what if i get addicted to them as well as paperbacks? - but will have a look if there's any Ben Templesmith titles in the library, sorry, 'idea shop' next time i'm in there.
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 22, 2010 15:24:46 GMT
Don't be afraid, Demonik, jump on in there, the water's lovely. Though the shelves are overloaded.... And when you're done relishing Ben Templesmith (go on, Wormwood, nowhere else will you find psychopathic transvestite leprechauns and a lapdancing club staffed by supernatural ladies with rather lively tattoos - or indeed a ZZTop lookalike cyborg constantly moaning about his lack of genital apparatus), try Thomas Ligotti's The Nightmare Factory. And John Coulthard's incredibly disturbing Haunter of the Dark, and Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures. I'm going to have to stop now and fondle my pretties for a bit, actually. Ah, the glossy feel of the pages, the smell of the inks...
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Post by dem on Aug 22, 2010 18:08:42 GMT
John Coulthard's incredibly disturbing Haunter of the Dark ooh, i've a standalone of that somewhere, a slim A3 (i think) from Caermaen Books in the late 'eighties. Around the same time, the publishers of Aklo received a visit from the police who'd been tipped off that the Coulthart four-page Lovecraft Porfolio in the debut contained an "obscene" picture of Cthulhu. It's stayed in my head because it seemed astonishing that anyone so easily offended would have even heard of Aklo far less chanced upon a copy, weirder still, that the police, when shown the picture in question, should have acted on the complaint. a graphic novel that went well with many of the vault old lags was Robert Tinnell and Adrian Salmon's The Faceless (Image, 2005) I'm going to have to stop now and fondle my pretties for a bit, actually. I can see you're getting the hang of this Vault thing!  |
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