Choosing a theme for Christmas this year
A number of you joined this newsletter (hello!) as part of backing Studio Wondercabinet's Cthulhu Christmas Greeting Card Kickstarter campaign last winter. Some of you signed up at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month. Some of you are long time subscribers. Your opinions are important to me because all of you enjoyed my work enough to follow me here. That means a lot to me. If you have a moment, I would value your thoughts about a possible project.
The Question
Late last year Studio Wondercabinet successfully ran our first kickstarter campaign to create a set of gently humorous Lovecraftian Christmas cards. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun; we started way too late in the season and managed to pull it off anyway, shipping our CCGC card sets in time for the holidays. Hurrah for luck! And many thanks to the good folks who backed us -- I hope you had fun with your cards!
So here we are in 2016, and I'm being asked if I'm going to create another set of C'thulhu Christmas Cards this year. And I don't know. I don't want to paint the same old gods all over again -- that would be boring for all of us, and I'd worry about whether this year's Great Race of Yith joke was as funny as last year's. (Probably not, alas.) On the other hand, I don't know how far I can wander from the famous Old Ones before I lose your interest. So, talk to me. Of the possibilities I've been considering, which of them sound potentially interesting to you, personally? How far away from Cthulhu is too far?
- Robert W. Chambers' The King In Yellow; the content of the play as it is known from stories like "The Repairer of Reputations," not just a lot of thespians going mad in rehearsal.
- Gothic horror that Lovecraft himself would have read. Arthur Machen's The White People, for example, is a lovely intersection of Gothic horror and pre-Christian magic that Lovecraft greatly admired.
I could have great fun working from any of these themes, but it would be sad to find that I had created art that no one wanted to see. Do any of them excite you? Talk to me...
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