The truly inestimable Matt Kish, artist and librarian, is building up to the publication date of his book Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page both in real life and over at his blog, here: http://everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/
In case this is news to you, these are Matt's words back in August 2009:
Because I honestly consider Moby-Dick to be the greatest novel ever written, I am now going to create one illustration for every single one of the 552 pages in the Signet Classic paperback edition...
And he did, getting picked up on the way by a publisher, Tin House. Last year Matt, his agent and his publisher let me use some of his artwork in my pamphlet, Venti. Now that the illustrating is over, Matt is starting to release the original artwork for sale. I really had to have some, and so bought a couple that I loved.
Page 147. Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men...
Page 208. High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries.
When they arrived all the way from the USA they were not alone, for Matt had kindly sent me the original of one of the works I used in Venti.
Page 322 But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.
And at long last I've managed to get to Mr Girdwood's for the framing. I wasn't thinking a triptych, but that's where we've ended up.
On Mr Girdwood's counter
Mount test. Nope.
Mount test. Yep.
Costings. Eek
And in the parcel were other Matt goodies too, including this:
If you're in the UK, you can find the book at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moby-Dick-Pictures-Drawing-Every-Page/dp/1935639137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316187465&sr=8-1
Matt's original art is to purchase here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/spuddsixtyfour?ga_search_query=spuddsixtyfour&ga_search_type=seller_usernames
And look! Matt talks! Here: http://everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-advance-copies-of-moby-dick-in.html
Matt Kish: artist and sweetheart. Official.
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