June 7th, 2010 / 1:11 pm
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Illustrating McCarthy and Melville

page 67: He took off the shirt. It stuck to the skin and a yellow pus ran. His arm was swollen to the size of his thigh and it was garishly discolored and small worms worked in the open wound.

Remember how Zak Smith did that cool illustration of Gravity’s Rainbow?  Well now he’s doing Blood Meridian as a collaborative project with Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle.

Also, Matt Kish is doing one for Moby Dick:

Page 048 : Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

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8 Comments

  1. June 7th, 2010 / 2:36 pm thomas—

      crazy

  2. June 7th, 2010 / 5:08 pm rk—

      Moby and BM are two of my three favorite books so I’m a little … I don’t know… and I’m a little dazzled. The BM pics in particular seem to hit it right. Baroque crazy horror. This GW pic seems to get at the right ideas too.

  3. June 7th, 2010 / 6:36 pm thomas—

      crazy

  4. June 7th, 2010 / 7:49 pm Ken Baumann—

      Projects like these make me move.

  5. June 7th, 2010 / 9:08 pm rk—

      Moby and BM are two of my three favorite books so I’m a little … I don’t know… and I’m a little dazzled. The BM pics in particular seem to hit it right. Baroque crazy horror. This GW pic seems to get at the right ideas too.

  6. June 7th, 2010 / 11:49 pm Ken Baumann—

      Projects like these make me move.

  7. June 8th, 2010 / 1:26 pm Brennen—

      Can someone point me to pack animals falling to their deaths while carrying loads of quicksilver? Or the creation of some dastardly batter with human urine to make gunpowder?

  8. June 8th, 2010 / 5:26 pm Brennen—

      Can someone point me to pack animals falling to their deaths while carrying loads of quicksilver? Or the creation of some dastardly batter with human urine to make gunpowder?