January 2022

So, Rich Tong sent us the folios to check, he pulled at random a set of the hand made paper artist’s edition and numbered edition. And look! Gary Gianni has drawn a little bee in some of the signature pages in the numbered edition! Some lucky owners may have a surprise, certainly surprised me…😲😄

Arete Editions are well into the production of “Frozen Hell”, the extended version of John W. Campbell Jr.’s “Who Goes There?” which was made into the movie “The Thing” by John Carpenter. The newly found novel length manuscript was discovered in 2019. Greg Manchess is the artist. He has created a lavish, richly illustrated interpretation of the story. He loves the snowy Antarctic landscapes and the scientists’ growing realisation that the shape shifting creature from another world is alive. The story will be illuminated by sixteen oil paintings, from single page to four-page foldouts, and loads of black and white illustrations and decorations. This will be printed at @Hand and Eye.

Printing Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey” on the Heidelberg cylinder press at Hand and Eye. This new edition published by Arete Editions is illustrated by Gary Gianni. “The Case of Death and Honey” will be finished by the end of the first quarter of 2022. You can find more information at arete-editions.com

Ink dribbles on our Heidelberg cylinder press. It’s been working hard printing “The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman. There are 500 numbered copies and 70 publishers’ copies of the Fine Edition, printed letterpress from hot metal typesetting in two colours, red and black, on Munken Design paper.

Have you pre-ordered “The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman? 📚
Paul and Rich at Ludlow Bookbinders tell us that the bindings for our inaugural book The Case of Death and Honey will be finished by the end of the first quarter of 2022. Although all of us have been making books for decades now, Death and Honey pushed our skill sets. You can find more information at arete-editions.com

Happy New Year! This next year we have a few plans for a couple of wonderful books! Death and Honey starts binding and we hope to ship soon, we have Neil Gaiman’s selection of poems ‘Word’s of Fire’ with the amazing artist Bill Sienkiewicz and ‘Frozen Hell’, the longer version of ‘Who Goes There’, that was found in a safe a couple of years ago, featuring Greg Manchess’s stunning interpretation of The Thing. Here are a couple of ‘sketches’ of some ideas by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington and Rich Tong and Gary Gianni… Happy New Year!