Original Comic Art titled Ian Miller - The Time Machine - 1974, located in Glynn's Ian Miller Comic Art Gallery (1816592)

Work-related research over the past week has had me looking for interesting 14th-century alphabets. This is a period I usually ignore in favour of the designs of the following century which tend to be a lot more florid, often to the point of illegibility. (Michael Baurenfeind’s books offer prime examples.) Medieval alphabets are more readable on the whole, once you attune yourself to the missing letters ("j", "u" and sometimes "w"), also the common occurrence of the long "s", the bar that crosses the "x", and the way that "z" will resemble a number 3.

Poster art by Nicholas Kouninos for Procol Harum / Pink Floyd / HP Lovecraft at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1967. • Take a break from so-called reality with Gruesome Shrewd, more queasy psychedelia by Moon Wiring Club. MWC's Ian Hodgson described his intentions to Simon Reynolds in a Reynolds roundup which notes the 20th anniversary of the Ghost Box project.

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Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today

It's that man again. Presenting the latest reworked page from the ongoing reconstruction/improvement of my Haunter of the Dark book. The picture will illustrate "Abdul Alhazred", the final section of Alan Moore's text for The Great Old Ones in which HP Lovecraft is positioned at Malkuth, the "Kingdom" in Alan's eldritch Kabbalah. This makes Lovecraft himself the receptive vessel of the energies descending from the spheres above, while paradoxically being the source of those energies.

After another cycle around the sun, and as the darker days of winter approach, it’s time to look back at what we managed to accomplish this year here at Swan River Press. Along the housing front, the ...

If you've spent a great deal of time looking at European design publications from before or after 1900 you may experience a shock of surprise when you encounter a Japanese publication from the same period. Shin-Bijutsukai ("New Oceans of Art") was a Japanese magazine published in monthly issues from 1902 to 1906. At first glance it looks like an equivalent of European design samplers such as…