I bought this as a poster from London’s Forbidden Planet (a pack of six I think) in the early 1980s. Kaluta is one of my favourite, fantastic, graphic artists. He combines grace, power and imagination with such deftness. Kaluta, the much missed Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Barry Windsor Smith and Bernie Wrightson shared a studio together in the late 1970s and …
Gustave Dore Illustration: Empyrean
This astonishing engraving is from Doré’s magnificent illustrated version of Dante’s Paradiso, Canto 31. It’s very hard to create a decent image of this online because there’s so much detail in the engraving. The main version I have is a large format publication by Omega Press, good because it’s large, bad because it’s on wood-free paper so the ink has …
Great Movie Posters: Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction. Smart, sassy, anarchic and deliciously retro. Elliptic story-telling with Tarantino, Travolta and Sam Jackson at their absolute best (for some great reviews, see the Rotten Tomatoes site). Such a brilliant poster too, it somehow manages to combine the fantastic pulp magazine feel of the 1930s and 40s pulps, with a slicker modern sensibility. Here’s a review of almost …
Dark Knight Rises Trailer
It’s going to be Fantastic! The new Dark Knight movie releases in a week or so. I can’t wait that long! I really hated the cheesy Batman of the 60s and 70s, then came Frank Miller and Alan Moore who pitched the character into deeper psychological territories, transforming Batman into the fantastic dark knight of the more recent films. So …