Taking a break from showing the books we have for sale, next week, I hope, to show more of the elaborate printing that goes into Letterpress. Now, it’s an art day. Here is the image for Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Case of Death and Honey’ as Holmes himself says in the story;
‘But when each crime is soluble, and so easily soluble at that, why then there is no point in solving them.
Look: this man has been murdered. Well then, someone murdered him. He was murdered for one or more of a tiny handful of reasons: he inconvenienced someone, or he had something that someone wanted, or he had angered someone.
Where is the challenge in that?’
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‘I am only alive when I perceive a challenge.’
I love seeing the progression of Gary’s art here, how he started to create the image’s values by having the alley and how that became a wall with the curved light behind, in order to create the right tone for the figures. Wonderful stuff.
