In the latest forthcoming titles solicitations from Dark Horse was a book I imagine a lot of fans will have been looking forward to: Drawing Down the Moon, a collection of art by the wonderful Charles Vess. The book was first mentioned a couple of years back, but work on selecting and designing a book to cover some 35-plus years of Charles’ illustration career took a while (understandably) and the publication slipped back. Now it is confirmed for this December from Dark Horse (it’s available to pre-order here) and Charles tells me he’s actually got a complete set of proofs of the book and he’s quite pleased with how it is all looking; it covers pretty much from when he left school through to today and features an introduction by acclaimed fantasy author Susanna Clarke. He’s posted up several examples of some of his work which we’ll be able to see in the book on his Green Man site, from book illustration to comics (the medium where I first encountered his beautiful, often ethereal art) to the recent (and enchanting) fountain he designed which I mentioned a while back, so why not go and enjoy some gorgeous art?
(a beautifully ethereal Swamp Thing piece for DC by Charles Vess, borrowed from his site)
Fri, Aug 7, 2009
Books, Comics and cartoons