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Los mitos de Cthulhu

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Published: October 12, 2026 15:30

Appearing on Spanish bookshelves this month is Los mitos de Cthulhu, a 576-page story collection which I spent the first six half of this year illustrating. This is my third illustrated Lovecraft for Editorial Alma, with an introduction by ST Joshi and…

Weekend links 851

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Published: October 10, 2026 18:00

Amber Light, a print by Phil Greenwood. • “When I heard the term industrial music, I mistook it for techno and soon learned it was not.” Steven Heller talks to Chris Grimley and Alan Rapp about Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement. •…

Ghosts on the Cam

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Published: October 7, 2026 15:30

Presenting my latest cover illustration for Swan River Press, and another story collection edited by Robert Lloyd Parry: Ghosts on the Cam is the third in a series of linked anthologies. Ghosts of the Chit-Chat (2020) collected supernatural tales by…

Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century

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Published: October 5, 2026 15:30

In which orchestral conductor Simon Rattle explores a century of music in much the same way that Robert Hughes explored a century of art in The Shock of the New. Or almost… It’s unfair to compare this more modest TV series to a landmark which was shot on…

Weekend links 850

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Published: October 3, 2026 18:00

Peacock Mandala (no date) by Judith Drury. • A few links related to my own activities this week. Firstly, the mix of the week is a guest mix I put together for The Invisible College. I haven’t made a properly mixed mix for a while. This one was made with…

Panic by Sándor Reisenbüchler

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Published: September 30, 2026 15:30

I suspect that if Sándor Reisenbüchler had been French, say, rather than Hungarian his animated films might be better known today. Panic (1979), like Moon Flight (1975), is another of his short exercises in Pop-art science fiction, a rush through a series…

Percy Billinghurst’s fables

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Published: September 28, 2026 15:30

These are actually La Fontaine’s fables illustrated by a British artist, Percy J. Billinghurst, but I try to avoid unwieldly post titles that mix artist and writer. There isn’t much of a biographical record for Percy Billinghurst, and what records there…

Weekend links 849

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Published: September 26, 2026 18:00

Mushroom Lady poster (1967) by East Totem West. • “I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music.” Composer Steve Reich talks to Flora Willson about his long career. More Reich: live performances from 1976 by Steve Reich and…

Cthulhu’s new labyrinth

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Published: September 24, 2026 15:30

Here in The North the weather is slowly turning against the wearing of T-shirts outdoors but this week I’ve made a new shirt available based on an old design. The first Cthulhu Labyrinth came about when I was putting together pages for a Cthulhu calendar…

Two short films by István Orosz

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Published: September 23, 2026 15:30

Hungarian artist István Orosz has directed fifteen short animated films to date, and co-directed three more, yet he’s known more for his drawings than his films, especially those works which follow MC Escher by combining a careful graphic technique with an…