Design has been cranking away on cleaning up artwork and placing text among my pictures. Now that the wedding is behind me and I can get back into my industrious passions, I felt it best to give you fiends an update on the Frankenstein book. If there is one thing that I've learned from Victor Frankenstein, it's that obsession in your craft is unhealthy and can/will destroy the relationships around you. Not to follow in the footsteps of the doomed protagonist of which I have so meticulously studied for the past three years, I placed the needed attention towards my fiance and our wedding day. These months marked a hectic time in my life known as the prenuptial period and two weeks ago I became a married man. It hasn't been due to lack of material to post. It has been nearly three months since my last post. Grimly’s images rise to view whenever they think of it." Obsessively readers encountering the story for the first time may find Hastening through them to probe more carefully the monster’s The monster’sĬrimes are shown mostly in b&w thumbnails, as if Grimly were Which the movie versions of the story are remembered. Grimly’s refusal to capitalize on the horror of the iconic scenes for The dissections that lead to the monster’s creation dwell on flesh andīone, yet show, for Grimly, a certain restraint. Crabbed, tense portraits of Frankenstein’s friends andįamily combine historical detail with theatrical emotion. Military jacket and pop-star shock of hair turn him into a sort ofĪnachronistic punk scientist, but other elements of the work are moreĬircumspect. Ink lines and a palette of jaundiced yellows and faded sepias plumb theĭarkness of the writer’s imaginings. "Grimly’s fans have been awaiting this reworking of Shelley’s 1818Ĭlassic for four years, and they will rejoice in the end result. These bits of words were discovered this morning when I awoke to find the first review for Frankenstein was released by Publisher's Weekly. Story for the first time may find Grimly’s images rise to view whenever "Fans will return to these pages obsessively readers encountering the It will remain by their side with loose spine and filthy pages, shared in school hallways and peeped through at midnight under private sheets. They will discover the book and instantly develop a kindred bond as they are transported to another dimension. And then, there are those, the misfit minds for whom this book was created for. Somewhere in a comic shop, the book awaits discovery. Historians eagerly flip through the pages with scrutinizing fingers, appalled and perplexed by the juxtaposition of modern punk icons and Victorian authenticity. Their faces recoil in horror to the grotesque images as their children run out of the store screaming. In my head, I imagine unsuspecting mothers discovering the book nestled somewhere between WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and OLIVIA. Now, it is time to sit back and await the release in August. The work has long been assembled and shipped off for mass production. This may in fact be my final Frankenstein blog.
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