Hippocampus Press has just announced Clark Ashton Smith: A Comprehensive Bibliography:

[www.hippocampuspress.com]

Looking forward this one. I have the Donald Sydney-Fryer bibliography from 1978, and I'm curious to see what new information the Hippocampus Press volume will contain.

Oldjoe Wrote:
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> Looking forward this one. I have the Donald
> Sydney-Fryer bibliography from 1978, and I'm
> curious to see what new information the
> Hippocampus Press volume will contain.


Highly interesting and highly-priced no doubt. Some may want to check with early reviews first, considering Hippo's very poorly illustrated & long-delayed edition of FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. Somebody needed to tell Jason Eckhardt his drawings look like the work of an adolescent.

jkh

I hope that no such scrawly drawing is used for the jacket of the CAS bibliography. A photo of Smith, or even no jacket at all would be more fitting for a bibliography, IMO.

Kipling Wrote:
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> Highly interesting and highly-priced no doubt.
> Some may want to check with early reviews first,
> considering Hippo's very poorly illustrated &
> long-delayed edition of FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH.
> Somebody needed to tell Jason Eckhardt his
> drawings look like the work of an adolescent.

Have you seen Jason C. Eckhardt's old illustrations for Necronomicon Press, and the covers of Crypt of Cthulhu, and on Lovecraft Remembered? Excellent work. No artist captures the atmosphere of Lovecraft's New England and its details better than Eckhardt.

Knygatin Wrote:
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> Kipling Wrote:
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>
> > Highly interesting and highly-priced no
> doubt.
> > Some may want to check with early reviews
> first,
> > considering Hippo's very poorly illustrated &
> > long-delayed edition of FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH.
> > Somebody needed to tell Jason Eckhardt his
> > drawings look like the work of an adolescent.
>
> Have you seen Jason C. Eckhardt's old
> illustrations for Necronomicon Press, and the
> covers of Crypt of Cthulhu, and on Lovecraft
> Remembered? Excellent work. No artist captures the
> atmosphere of Lovecraft's New England and its
> details better than Eckhardt.

Yes, I'm seen all of that, excepting some of the COC stuff. Have you seen his FUNGI illos? They are, or should have been an embarrassment, yet I see that he was apparently proud of them, for he gave a speech on the subject of his work for the book. Oh well, taste is everything. Those drawings are not up to his own standards.

I had a distant glimpse of it, ... but it didn't quite grab me.

His Fungi cover for the Necronomicon Press edition was alright, although sketchy, ... expressive and memorable. Still, he has done much better work, and I prefer his more worked-through illustrations, in which he has good command of both anatomy, architecture, and landscape.