Leland and I made this for Charles Vess a few years ago when BALLADS came out. I knew we had a scan around here somewhere but couldn’t find it… until now!
I’ve always liked it.
Leland’s art more than my words, of course.
But, y’know.
The awsomeness that is Jeff Zornow (WEIRD SISTER artist, but you knew that) finally has his website up:
http://www.yourmidnightreader.com/jwzornow/
Don’t fear the reaper, just go check it out.
For those of you not in the know, Daleth’s dog, Shock, is based on various and sundry legends of ghostly black dogs. Many such pooches are found in European folklore, namely that of the British Isles, but some tales have spread to this side of the pond. Like this one, found on S. E. Schlosser’s grand American Folklore site.
It’s funny how the black dog in this story has changed from the hulky and brooding variety to the “little” and “cute fellow” sort.
I’d also like to point out that Shock’s bad side only comes out if you mess around with his master.
More black dog tales as I find ‘em.
That does it. Wordpress theme, you have officially beaten me. No rollovers on the sidebar. Life is just too damn short to waste on decipering style sheet obscura.
I did get an ordering page up, though.
More content; huzzah. I have a couple of additional pages to make and edit, and will have to get some Paypal buttons on. Simple, but functional. Then there will be some aesthetic fixes. I still haven’t figured out how to make all of the links turn red on rollovers, and all of the visited links should be underlined.
Okay, enough with the details that nobody cares about but me.
In other non-news, I fricking love our logo.
Looks like I got a basic install of Wordpress up and running, and knobs sufficiently twiddled on the themes tip that the presentation doesn’t make me want to gag.
Can you believe that the theme originally looked like this? Cute (I am the biggest Courier fan in the world, a fact that drives Leland bananas), but that typewriter is a little out of control.
Anyway. Dig on our logo?