Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A Grisly Desktop
This is my new desktop graphic. What do you think? It’s a little gruesome, I’ll grant you, but I love it!
It’s for Neil Gaiman’s new novel, The Graveyard Book, due out this October.
This is how the author describes it:
Lots of scary. Some funny (some of the funniest stuff is also the scariest, though). A fair amount of action. Some drama. No kissing. Late nights. Fish and chips. A werewolf, a vampire, an Assyrian mummy and a small pig. A knife in the dark.
And here’s where Neil blogs about Dave McKean’s great bookslip design
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Comments:
Did you paint this? Do it graphically/digitally?
What is it? A cover for his new book? Oy. Yes, very scary indeed!!!!!!
I don’t think I will read that one as I am not one who delights in being scared.
Posted by lynn on 03/25 at 07:30 PM
It’s by frequent Gaiman collaborator Dave McKean. He has digital manipulation skills I can only dream of!
I love all the mirroring going on in it. The graveyard reflected in the bloody knife, the little boy mirroring the hand, and so on. It’s a really arresting image.
I’m of the opinion that a little scare at bedtime can do you the world of good. I’m reminded of a quote by GK Chesterton:
“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Posted by Bad Faery on 03/25 at 08:02 PM
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