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Fortean Gifts & Presents

MorningAngel said:
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I've got one of these:

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Thought this artist might be of interest.

I am not a particularly energetic consumer of the graphic novel form, but I could not resist the black and white illustrations in Tom Charlesworth's, The Silent Stones - which I think I first came across a copy in Gosh! Comics, Soho, but which I actually bought direct from Charlesworth's Etsy shop.

I'm also not a fan of fantasy fiction and art - unless maybe it leans more towards myth and folklore. It strikes me that there's a big difference in tone between the artist's coloured images and the more monotone work: the former feels like 'fantasy' to me, the latter myth and folklore. I dare say the former will be of interest to some people here, but my tastes very definitely lean towards the latter - I really like this stuff:


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Tom Charlesworth's Etsy shop is here. Prints, cards and the graphic novel available.
 
Spookdaddy said:
Thought this artist might be of interest.

I am not a particularly energetic consumer of the graphic novel form, but I could not resist the black and white illustrations in Tom Charlesworth's, The Silent Stones - which I think I first came across a copy in Gosh! Comics, Soho, but which I actually bought direct from Charlesworth's Etsy shop.

I'm also not a fan of fantasy fiction and art - unless maybe it leans more towards myth and folklore. It strikes me that there's a big difference in tone between the artist's coloured images and the more monotone work: the former feels like 'fantasy' to me, the latter myth and folklore. I dare say the former will be of interest to some people here, but my tastes very definitely lean towards the latter - I really like this stuff:


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Tom Charlesworth's Etsy shop is here. Prints, cards and the graphic novel available.
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This is beautiful. May well be of interest to my folklore PhD son in law..will investigate for Christmas!
 
catseye said:
This is beautiful. May well be of interest to my folklore PhD son in law..will investigate for Christmas!
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Yes, it's very nice. It's not overly long - twenty-ish large pages (on good solid art paper), but the illustrations are very striking and the accompanying written narrative has the terse and unadulterated - yet still poetic - feel of the saga.

I think I'd describe it as more as a work of illustrative art in book form, than a book with illustrations in it (I think that makes sense). I'm not even sure I'd call it a graphic novel.
 
Spookdaddy said:
Thought this artist might be of interest.

I am not a particularly energetic consumer of the graphic novel form, but I could not resist the black and white illustrations in Tom Charlesworth's, The Silent Stones - which I think I first came across a copy in Gosh! Comics, Soho, but which I actually bought direct from Charlesworth's Etsy shop.

I'm also not a fan of fantasy fiction and art - unless maybe it leans more towards myth and folklore. It strikes me that there's a big difference in tone between the artist's coloured images and the more monotone work: the former feels like 'fantasy' to me, the latter myth and folklore. I dare say the former will be of interest to some people here, but my tastes very definitely lean towards the latter - I really like this stuff:


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Tom Charlesworth's Etsy shop is here. Prints, cards and the graphic novel available.
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I've ordered this now for my son in law's birthday (or Christmas)!
 
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