Archive for October, 2009

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Selkie

October 12, 2009

According to Scottish folklore, a selkie is a creature able to switch between human and seal form – they do this by the wearing of or removal of a seal skin. Quite often, these were beautiful women, and with their soft brown hair and seal-cow eyes it was not unheard of for a human man to fall in love with a selkie and marry her. These marriages would start off happily enough, but sooner or later the sea would call to her and she would yearn to return to the world of the seals. The only way to stop his wife abandoning him for the ocean was to steal her seal skin and hide it.

Selkie

Selkie

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The Graphic World of Salem Brownstone

October 11, 2009

01 October 2009 – www.shots.net

When shots.net heard that Watchmen guru Alan Moore had tipped writer John Harris Dunning’s debut novel as the future of comics – well, we just had to find out more.
On the cusp between brownish green and sienna, the autumn leaves signal that it’s still just early October. Said leaves are certainly less New England crisp than Old England soggy, yet thanks to a certain package that dropped through the letterbox we’re grooving on the idea of a stateside Halloween.

Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers is the debut graphic novel from writer John Harris Dunning and artist Nikhil Singh. It’s the tale of a dapper Laundromat owner who rocks up at a shadowy manor house to uncover the secrets of his dead father. With its Amityville architecture it’s an outsider’s view of an American dream, a fantastic, hyper-real myth. Noirish, Victorian, rococo, hallucinogenic, magical, dense, burlesque, Lovecraftian – any attempt at a coherent description collapses into a stream of adjectives.

To read the whole of the article click here.salem_brownstone_cvr

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