August 2023

Art!!

Greg’s painting for the battle inside the station where the creature is building something in the labs which the men must stop! The image didn’t change that much as you can see from his initial ideas, he knew what he wanted to paint from day one, two years ago now, time goes so fast. This plate is a four page print, in the Roman Edition it is nearly three feet long! It is a truly immersive experience. https://www.arete-editions.com/

A stack of Liber Charter, a gorgeous new paper from John Purcell Paper. We’re using it for Frozen Hell, now available for pre-sale at www.arete-editions.com

I’ve had an internet outage all last week, in London, I’m next to what is known as the silicon roundabout area, it was a pain for me but I can only imagine what it was like for all those tech startups. We were really late to show Frozen Hell and have a back log of a couple of other books coming which required time working through their productions, so probably not a bad thing to have time working analogue!

Here are a bunch of pencil sketches that will be inside the Roman Edition of Frozen Hell. I love Greg’s pencil work, he manages to find both the tonal values and the compositions, each project I work with him on he has managed to constantly astonish me! And I’ve worked with him for over twenty years! I was going to dribble these out last week, but hey! Here a treasure trove of images! Enjoy, they are fantastic insights and great visuals. https://www.arete-editions.com/

Six minutes of craft gold! https://www.arete-editions.com/

We are pleased to announce the store will open today!

‘Frozen Hell’ by John W. Campbell ; the books will be available for pre-order from: 5 pm BST on Saturday 12th August at https://www.arete-editions.com

The web site is now open where you can peruse each edition.

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Lyra’s Books

We are pleased to announce when the store will be open!

‘Frozen Hell’ by John W. Campbell ; the books will be available for pre-order from: 5 pm BST on Saturday 12th August at https://www.arete-editions.com

The web site is now open where you can peruse each edition.

This is a painting Greg did for a new part of FROZEN HELL that was only talked about in ‘Who Goes There’ but in the found novel of the story it is part of the narrative opening chapters:

“The thunder of the vast plume of steam bellowing through the growing pit was whipped away by the wind as the men threw themselves flat on the ice. A sky-shaking roar thrust fifty-foot blocks of ice into the air, freeing an incandescent, growing lake of molten, blazing metal.”

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“The wavering curtains of the aurora overhead jerked suddenly, spiraled in a mad vortex of shimmering light, and beat down a savage stalk to the incandescent fury. From the mountain, from the ice, vast angry tongues of lightning crashed against the molten pool. Lesser lightnings darted from the tractor, from the steel treads to the ice.”…

This is a spectacular, colourful, image! It explodes when you open up the four-page plate. Greg’s composition didn’t actually change too much, but his finding of the colours and brightness was really found in the oil paint.