Comic creators Mike Mignola, Steve Niles and Hans Rodionoff spoke to an audience of fans about their experiences with and influences by H.P. Lovecraft during their panel at the West Hollywood Book Fair.
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10-02-2010, 10:53 AM #1Mild-Mannered Reporter
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CBR: H.P. Lovecraft and the Horror of Comics
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10-02-2010, 02:30 PM #2From Earth C++
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grant morrison's zenith
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10-02-2010, 08:39 PM #3Enjoy the silence
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God i tried to get into Lovecraft but his writing never got to me the way it has just about every one else. It could be that i just could never get over the race stuff with him. But i don't know give me some Richard Matheson some King and I'm happy, and the thing is i love all the Hellboy stuff and clearly has so much Lovecraft influence, plus my friend's films about Lovecraft stories i really dig, but his writing was just not for me.
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10-03-2010, 03:26 AM #4Hell yeah!
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Well, I look at it like as with Motörhead Lemmy and what some people might be thinking of him, for being rocky, or Jimi Hendrix, for seeming trippy. They'll be about being rocky or trippy. Not necessarily the same as purply bunny rapers.
Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
For modern horror stuff, like just ghost stories or Edgar Allan Poe but with a twist or kick to it, just that, I sense it will be only time 'till I'd end up with some good clean Lovecraft. I could always close the book again if needed. I'm not a wussy, y'know.
What's this 'though:
? Originally Posted by Squashua
Misposted? Or do people do comic spam now too?
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Chillingly good stuff besides Mignola, Slint, M, Knut and really big chunks of tinfoil?Been called a 'good egg'. Been told to rock, been told to steady myself. Been told to (please) be goin' places.
Half sunk in the mud, with one eye showing / a cracked smile and hair still growing /
your hands miles apart, as if they'd never met / you were the happiest I'd seen you yet. ~ (full) lyrics to 'Exhume' by Bedhead.
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10-03-2010, 03:53 AM #5BANNED
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I've never really gotten into Lovecraft's actual work... but I do love Lovecraftian themed books, movies and comics. The idea of something beyond human comprehension going on behind the scenes in the cosmos is very interesting.
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10-03-2010, 05:27 AM #6Peachtree St. Irregular
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A fun comic-related Lovecraft factoid I learned recently:
Lovecraft's literary agent was a young, Golden-Age era Julius Schwartz.
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10-03-2010, 05:34 AM #7From Earth C++
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Read or research Grant Morrison's Zenith and you'll understand the relation to the topic. Originally Posted by Kees_L
What's this 'though?
Misposted? Or do people do comic spam now too?
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10-03-2010, 05:37 AM #8Hell yeah!
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O and while I'm at it, one the subject of Lovecraft being racist - like as a person:
I've heard experts claim that in the past some people worried a lot like from worrying times. And that Lovecraft might have been one of them, while living in down-town New York amid lots of immigrants. (As opposed to what, natives - who'll be native "enough"?) Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
That he even wrote a story about it, worrying. Like a horror-story, about fear.
I'm from a small country - maybe technically I'll be with a minority too, eventhough' I'm white. I'll admit feeling sort of generally fortunate up to a point.
But I know racism I think. Which will be fear-based and kind of silly, thinking that other races will steal your job or just be nasty or blow you up, necessarily.
White people seem to have been loudest in lots of places. I think, that should they be scared of others stealing jobs or opportunities, they should be fearing white people same as everybody else.
Racism will be for getting over quick, like acting dumb or immature. It might happen but should never be for keeps, as well as best avoided.
I'm not gonna let any of that interfere with what stories I like to read. Even horror stories.
Plus I read material, not per se the persons behind it. Who knows what Shakespeare thought privately, or Lord Tennyson, or Stan Lee!Last edited by Kees_L; 10-03-2010 at 05:43 AM. Reason: syntax bits.
Chillingly good stuff besides Mignola, Slint, M, Knut and really big chunks of tinfoil?Been called a 'good egg'. Been told to rock, been told to steady myself. Been told to (please) be goin' places.
Half sunk in the mud, with one eye showing / a cracked smile and hair still growing /
your hands miles apart, as if they'd never met / you were the happiest I'd seen you yet. ~ (full) lyrics to 'Exhume' by Bedhead.
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10-03-2010, 05:48 AM #9Hell yeah!
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Or maybe add such into the post of yours a little? As now I'd feel tricked into it a bit. Originally Posted by Squashua
This thread seems to focus on a panel, at which no one attended named Morrison, I'd think? That's all I'm sayin'.Chillingly good stuff besides Mignola, Slint, M, Knut and really big chunks of tinfoil?Been called a 'good egg'. Been told to rock, been told to steady myself. Been told to (please) be goin' places.
Half sunk in the mud, with one eye showing / a cracked smile and hair still growing /
your hands miles apart, as if they'd never met / you were the happiest I'd seen you yet. ~ (full) lyrics to 'Exhume' by Bedhead.
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10-03-2010, 05:51 AM #10Nyah!
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Heh, I'm with Kees. It just looked like you had some weird kind of Tourette's or something.Squashua blurted:
Read or research Grant Morrison's Zenith and you'll understand the relation to the topic.
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10-04-2010, 09:05 AM #11From Earth C++
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I don't want to ruin 2000AD's Zenith for you guys. Let's just say it is awesome in it's use of Lovecraftian imagery. Originally Posted by Paradox
Heh, I'm with Kees. It just looked like you had some weird kind of Tourette's or something.
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10-04-2010, 03:19 PM #12Triste Noir
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I've read just about all of his work and I hadn't found anything in it which led me to believe he had racist tendencies. Had he made racist comments during an interview or published anything non-fiction which may have had a racist slant? Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
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