The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » quilting http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=7588 Comics quilting http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/comics-quilting/ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/comics-quilting/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:01:33 +0000 Joe http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=14768 Insomnia’s Red Eye blog has a photograph of a “double page bedspread” (as author Cy Dethan described it) – its a 90″ by 70″ quilt based on Stephen Downey’s artwork from Cancertown. There’s more on this bed linen/comics crossover on the blog of the quilter responsible, Ferret. That’s one of the more unusual and cooler comics inspired works I’ve seen recently! I wonder if Ferret would create a Mega City One cityscape quilt…

Stephen Downey bad rain Cancertown

(Stephen Downey’s original artwork – with colouring by Mel Cook – for ‘bad rain’ in Insomnia’s Cancertown)

Cancertown quilt Ferret Stephen Downey

(Ferret’s interpretation of Stephen’s comics art through the medium of quilting; check her blog and look at the large version of this pic, the detail is superb)

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