Patrick David Reinhart's Blog: Ongoing Illustration Adventures., page 5
November 29, 2014
(egad! zounds! good grief and bewilderment. Too long since I...
(egad! zounds! good grief and bewilderment. Too long since I posted last, too long since I’ve been drawing. Must change. But my day job as a bookseller has kept me busy. I designed the website, keep up the blog, the twitter and facebook, design bookmarks and whatever else needs designing, in addition to actually selling books….Tom the Book Guy. Check us out.)
Working for a small-time online bookstore, I often start dreaming about opening my own little brick-and-mortar niche bookstore. I recently read about the old sci-fi/fantasy bookstore A Change of Hobbit, and oh my god does it sound like it was amazing.
Folk: The Bookstore From Beyond The Fields We Know is the bookstore I want to operate (and above is the logo I’d have swinging above the door). "Beyond the fields we know" is the Lord Dunsany way of saying "fairyland".
BUT NOT JUST ANY BOOKSTORE! No, if I’m dreaming, I’d want it to be a community hub - not an uncommon aspiration - but a hub for oral storytelling, for children and adults, with of course an emphasis on the folk, or fairy, or fantastic tale (I’ve been reading Ruth Sawyer’s stupendous “The Way of the Storyteller”). A hub for writers of fantasy, book clubs, and such. A small stage for readings (open-mic for tales, poetry, music and puppetry performances), an area for children to play with simple puppets and other things to “make believe” with, a full selection of classic folk and fairy tales from around the world, as well as newer, more adult interpretations, literary/folklore studies, etc. So not just a children’s bookstore.
Easier said than done, I know.
In addition, I can picture some of the layout, I know the sort of things I’d put on the walls (fantasy maps in particular - I just picked up the extraordinarily brilliant book “An Atlas of Fantasy” by J.B. Post), and I know what sort of front door I’d have…
I would make the front door look smaller, maybe an appropriate size (and shape?) for a hobbit, but it would be normal size - the top third or so would just be made to blend in with the building. Maybe I could do something inside with a wardrobe?
Gandalf-size-pipe dreams; for when I write that best seller, become richer than Rowling and am able to satisfy every one of my wildest whims and fancies…
oh yeah, and I’d run my own wee printing press/publishing business onsite, as well.
January 3, 2014
ANAMNESIA, an ambigram (rotate it 180° and it looks the same)....
ANAMNESIA, an ambigram (rotate it 180° and it looks the same). Whaddaya think as a micro-publishing business name/logo? I’m thinking it would look stupendous on the bottom of the spine.
December 30, 2013
In the near future I’d like to start a...
In the near future I’d like to start a micro/hobby-publishing biz. I’d like to find some under-appreciated or forgotten works in the public domain and do ‘em up proper. None of this facsimile crap, none of this cheapo reprinting/POD that many companies are doing these days. I aim to design layouts, get high quality scans of the original book illustrations, and hand bind the books. In small quantities.
I have two possible names in mind for my wee company: MARKHOR, for the Middle Eastern wild goat, or ANAMNESIS, the platonic concept that all knowledge is simply remembered from past lives.
ANAMNESIS has a more solid grounding, but it doesn’t conjure the visuals like MARKHOR. The silhouette in the logo mock-up is Jane Austen, but could potentially be anybody.
September 23, 2013
I put together a multilingual epub with the original French of...
I put together a multilingual epub with the original French of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ A Rebours from 1884, an 1897 German translation by M. Capsius, Gegen den Strich, and the anonymously translated English translation, Against the Grain, from 1926. I could have included John Howard’s 1922 translation, but he deleted an entire chapter, for cryin’ out loud! I kept the format relatively simple.
One of my favorite books, though the newer, not-public domain translations are better (see Margaret Mauldon and Brendan King, who both used the title Against Nature for their respective translations).
September 5, 2013
BFWK - Beyond The Fields We Know, a reference to Lord...
BFWK - Beyond The Fields We Know, a reference to Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter. I just put this together and posted it for sale on my Zazzle. Technically, to be a proper parody of the European country code oval stickers, there should only be three letters or fewer. But I like it this way. I need one for my scooter now.
August 15, 2013
The 6th Doctor. I used a still from Vengeance on Varos for...
The 6th Doctor. I used a still from Vengeance on Varos for reference. Yes, he is wearing sensible, tasteful clothes. Not a great scan.
March 6, 2013
The Pug Who Roared.
The Pug Who Roared.
February 15, 2013
Buster Keaton caricature and rainy-day variant. Itchingly close...
Buster Keaton caricature and rainy-day variant. Itchingly close to finishing this, not sure I’ll ever be 100% happy with it.
February 12, 2013
February 11, 2013
A bout of fisticuffs. I’d forgotten about this sketch!
A bout of fisticuffs. I’d forgotten about this sketch!
