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Weekend links 834

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Published: June 13, 2026 18:00

A Bigger Splash (1967) by David Hockney. • I was interviewed this week at Retrofuturista, the first interview I’ve done in a while, and more wide-ranging than they sometimes are. Subjects covered include illustration, design, weird fiction, the Reverbstorm…

Hello Dali! revisited

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Published: June 10, 2026 15:30

After mentioning Salvador Dalí in the previous post, here’s the man himself in a UK TV profile from 1973. I wouldn’t usually return to something like this but for years the only copy of Hello Dali! on YouTube was spoiled by having been recorded with a…

The art of Helmut Wenske

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Published: June 8, 2026 15:30

A Tab in the Ocean (1972) by Nektar. This is another post in which I refer to Franz Rottensteiner’s The Fantasy Book: The Ghostly, the Gothic, the Magical, the Unreal (Thames & Hudson, 1978) as a source of discovery. Rottensteiner is Austrian which no…

Weekend links 833

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Published: June 6, 2026 18:00

Tony Hyde’s original artwork for the front cover of Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music by Hawkwind. The painting is being auctioned later this month. • At the Daily Heller: Steven Heller reprints his 2012 Atlantic review of The Graphic Canon, a three-volume…

Rhino Head

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Published: June 3, 2026 15:30

A new book arrived in the post this week. Rhino Head is a collection of words (in both German and English) by Carlos Atanes and drawings by Jan van Rijn which describes itself thus: This illustrated fantastical narrative consists of 21 chapters and…

Huszti Horvath’s Three Dragons

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Published: June 1, 2026 15:30

Book of the Three Dragons is an unusual illustrated volume, being an American edition of a retelling of Welsh myths by a Welsh writer, Kenneth Morris, with illustrations by a Hungarian artist, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath (1891–1973). Morris was, among other…

Weekend links 832

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Published: May 30, 2026 18:00

Dark Corridor (1990s) by Unknown Artist. • “I greatly enjoyed this rich, allusive and strange text, which has affinities to the literary form and style of TS Eliot, David Jones and Iain Sinclair, uniting high modernism with demotic and pulp elements, as…

Steal Me

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Published: May 27, 2026 15:30

Coming soon from Absinthe Books, the novella imprint of PS Publishing, is Steal Me by Helen Grant, a book for which I created the wraparound cover art: Rowan Byrne hasn’t stolen anything for ages—not since she started to straighten her life out after a…

The Black Goat

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Published: May 25, 2026 15:30

I found time recently to finish another picture for the revised edition of my Lovecraft book, a picture which I almost completed several months ago then had to set aside. Last year’s steady progress on the book’s production was brought to a halt in…

Weekend links 831

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Published: May 23, 2026 18:00

Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman. • The summer catalogue of lots for the After Dark: Gay Art and Culture online auction. Homoerotic art, photos, historic porn, etc. • New music: The Sanctity Of…