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Trailer for Art Out Loud, Vol 3 from Kate Feirtag on Vimeo . A little set-up tease for an upcoming DVD of the September 12 th's Art Out Loud at the Society of Illustrators with: James Gurney Sam Weber Charles Vess Donato Giancola Greg Manchess Earlier report of the event here . ...
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Greg Grunberg
Charles Stross
James Bond
IO9 compares various jackets for classic SF novels. And SF Signa l aks a number of publishing folk what they consider the most memorable sf/f cover.
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Tor.com is giving away Kekai's Great Hunt wallpaper as a means of announcing the ebook release of The Great Hunt , now available.
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A while ago I mentioned that Sam Weber turned me on to Cassandra Diaz's work. I now have the pleasure of publishing her comic My Grandmother's House -- an ethereal , dreamy moment -- on Tor.com. Check it out. I'm still blown away that she's just out of school.
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The second Wheel of Time ebook cover is now released, this one by the amazing Kekai Kotaki . You can read a behind-the-scenes post and see lots of progressions on Tor.com: The Great Hunt ebook cover by Kekai Kotaki. RELATED: David Grove's ebook cover for The Eye of the Wolrd
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Storm King Art Center is always magical. Went for the Maya Lin, and to revisit the Andy Goldworthy, and was reminded how much I love Richard Serra .
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We are preparing to send off Steampunk Month on Tor.com. Throughout the month we gave out desktop wallpapers. If you want any, or just want to see some brushstrokes (an in one case sculpture) close up, check out: HMS Stubbington, the logo Thom Tenery Eric Frietas Jon Foster Greg Manchess
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Jon Favreau
Quick update: The posters mentioned below are all called-for. But a sincere thanks to everyone for reading.
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We decided that we absolutely had to have letterpress posters for Tor.com's Stea mpunk Month , so, four of us from Team TorDot drove up to Ross MacDoanld 's Connecticut studio and proceeded to have a blast! We went up with a plan and then threw it away, having much more fun re-designing, ...
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Just out from Massive Black's downloadable demo series: Donato Giancola's "The Mechanic." Long term readers know I've seen Donato demo a bunch of times, he's a born teacher. $60 dollars for 5 hours. Download version available now, there will be a DVD version out in November. Order it here . ...
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The good folks at Idiot's Books continue with what is one of the most interesting works of illustration I've seen come through Tor -- the 81 part serialization of Cory Doctorow's Makers . I'll be sad when it finishes up. Here we are at part 45, and suddenly I really want to wallpaper a part of ...
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My uber-talented friend Scott Fischer has a chance to have his super-cute book Jump placed in a million cereal boxes. V ote for Scott, vote for Jump ! If you don't take my word on it, just try getting through take-two on this video without laughing.
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Quick update to the post below: You can now order The Eye of the World ebook on Amazon. I little behind-the-scenes post on the cover tomorrow.
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Tor will be releasing The Eye of the World , the first Wheel of Time ebook, tomorrow. As announced , each of the Wheel of Time ebooks will have a different artist on them: First up is David Grove. For some background on David, below is Greg Manchess' introduction at David's induction into ...
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Greg Grunberg
We hosted the third Tor.com meet-up last night. In celebration of Steampunk Month we went to Brooklyn's soon-to-open steampunk bar, The Way Station , and encouraged the courageous to polish off their goggles and dress-up for the occasion. Despite heavy rains we had a great, creative crowd that ...
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Last week on Saturday Morning Cartoons : The Cat Piano : A beat-noir-feline-Poe-ish horror story. Beautifully drawn. Narrated by Nick Cave—it’s as great to listen to as it is to watch. (8.30 minutes.) The Lighthouse Keeper : Sometimes bugs are the good guys. A Goeblins film. Which means, of ...
