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A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
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Maurice Leloir’s Three Musketeers
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/02/09/maurice-leloirs-three-musketeers/
Published: February 9, 2026 16:30
Just after Christmas I watched the recent French film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, after which I resolved to finally read The Three Musketeers, something I’d been intending to do since reading The Count of Monte Cristo four years ago. I’m…
Weekend links 816
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/02/07/weekend-links-816/
Published: February 7, 2026 19:00
The Creative Power of the Spirit, No. 31 of A Goodly Company series, 1920–1933 by Ethel le Rossignol. • “One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying”: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis. More gay porn: Pink…
The Performers: Goya
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/02/04/the-performers-goya/
Published: February 4, 2026 16:30
It’s good to find another arts documentary by Leslie Megahey turning up online. Not the best quality, unfortunately; the audio has been subjected to so much digital compression it sounds like it was run through a ring modulator but the visuals are decent…
Zeuhl Ẁortz!
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/02/02/zeuhl-%e1%ba%81ortz/
Published: February 2, 2026 16:30
Kobaïa / Müh (1970), a single by Magma. 1: Zeuhl definitions Zeuhl is an adjective in Kobaïan, the language written by Christian Vander, drummer and founder of the French band Magma. Pronunciation: zEU(h)l, while the EU are like a French E with a slight U,…
Weekend links 815
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/31/weekend-links-815/
Published: January 31, 2026 19:00
A photograph by FR Yerbury of St George’s-in-the-East, London. From Nicholas Hawksmoor (1924) by HS Goodhart-Rendel. • “Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined. Online platforms structure our personal…
Tadami Yamada’s illustrated Carnacki
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/28/tadami-yamadas-illustrated-carnacki/
Published: January 28, 2026 16:30
It’s William Hope Hodgson’s occult detective again. Late last year I was looking for Hodgson illustrations after reading Timothy S. Murphy’s William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark but couldn’t find much of interest apart…
Beautiful and macabre: two books from Century Guild
Published: January 26, 2026 16:30
Arriving in the mail last week, a pair of beautifully-produced volumes which Thomas Negovan very generously sent to me. Negovan’s Century Guild publishes the kind of art I’ve been writing about here for the past twenty years: Symbolist painting, Art…
Weekend links 814
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/24/weekend-links-814/
Published: January 24, 2026 19:00
Kull of Atlantis—The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune by Ned Dameron for Kull (1985) by Robert E. Howard. Via. • Jeremy Allen reviews the latest reissue of The New Worlds Fair by Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix, describing the album as “a fascinating and quixotic…
Ex Libris, a film by Garik Seko
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/21/ex-libris-a-film-by-garik-seko/
Published: January 21, 2026 14:35
Garik Seko (1935–1994) is an animator whose work I hadn’t encountered before. He was born in Tiflis, Georgia, but worked in Prague where a number of his shorts (this one among them) were made at the Jiřà Trnka Studio. Seko’s speciality was the animation of…
The return of The Thing: Artbook
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/19/the-return-of-the-thing-artbook/
Published: January 19, 2026 16:30
The most notable feature of the alien organism in John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” is its physical mutability, a quality memorably expressed in John Carpenter’s film adaptation of the story, The Thing. Fitting, then, that The Thing: Artbook is due to…
Weekend links 813
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/17/weekend-links-813/
Published: January 17, 2026 16:30
Dwellers of the Sea (1962) by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. • Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard. • At Colossal: “Uncanny personalities appear from nature in Malene…
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/14/nezha-conquers-the-dragon-king/
Published: January 14, 2026 16:30
From an Arabian story with a Chinese theme to a Chinese adaptation of a Chinese story. Nezha Conquers the Dragon King is an hour-long animated presentation of an episode from Chinese mythology, in which Nezha, a magical boy born from a lotus flower, uses…
Edmund Dulac’s Princesse Badourah
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/12/edmund-dulacs-princesse-badourah/
Published: January 12, 2026 16:30
The Chinese princess is usually named Badoura in English editions of The Thousand and One Nights but this volume is a French book which reprints the art that Edmund Dulac created for a retelling of the story by Laurence Housman published in 1913. The…
Weekend links 812
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/10/weekend-links-812/
Published: January 10, 2026 19:00
• RIP Béla Tarr. I came late to Tarr’s films, he’d retired from directing by the time I worked my way through most of his oeuvre in 2019. As I’m always saying: better late than never. What I never expected from reading reviews was the irreducible…
Eclipse and Sunscreen
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/07/eclipse-and-sunscreen/
Published: January 7, 2026 16:30
Gobelins, the French school of film animation, has its own YouTube channel where students post a variety of clips showing technical exercises or, as in the case of this pair of films, complete works. Eclipse (directed by Theo Guignard, Noé Lecombre and…
Thirteen views of snow
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/05/thirteen-views-of-snow/
Published: January 5, 2026 16:30
Lingering Snow at Asukayama, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo (1837–38) by Utagawa Hiroshige. We’ve had one of our mild falls of snow this week, hence the subject. Snow is a very common theme in Japanese prints, a part of the cultural…
Weekend links 811
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/03/weekend-links-811/
Published: January 3, 2026 19:00
A still from The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), a feature-length animated film by Lotte Reiniger. • Hélice 39 is a speculative-fiction journal (in Spanish) whose current issue includes an article by Marcelo Sanchez: “What did Borges think of…
02026
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/01/01/02026/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:30
The Basket of Bread (1926) by Salvador DalĂ. Happy new year. 02026? An affectation via the Long Now. The Cello Player (1926) by Edwin Dickinson. Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926) by Otto Dix. The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before…