It feels a little cruel to reveal the cover of a book that is already unavailable – but I finished work on this one and uploaded it to the printers just half an hour ago! If you placed a pre-order for Alexander Zelenyj’s large collection Beware Us Flowers of the Annihilator, then you will receive this slim hardcover chapbook alongside it – Beware Us Flowers of the Devil. This book contains an additional four stories (we originally said two but got carried away) and it will not be available for sale … ever.
With a colour-scheme that was designed to be both gentle and toxic, and based on a deceptively classic artwork by Warwick Goble, this was again quite a different kind of cover to work on. Lots of colour blending and abstract shapes.
Of course, you can still get Alex’s full collection here. I did receive one report of someone having trouble placing a pre-order through PayPal. We are still not quite sure why, but of course, if anyone has encountered any problems or were prevented from ordering, please do reach out to me and I’ll sort it!
And with this, I can finally put the design work for this particular project to bed. With Colby Smith’s wonderful collection and this increasingly large-scale project happing at roughly the same time, it has been quite a workload and there is still much to do. But in terms of art, I can now turn my attention fully to the next projects, which will be the chapbook Gloom and Glow by Tobias Reckermann and Yesterfang by DF Lewis.
And a very very vague teaser … there might, MIGHT be a new Eibonvale imprint starting up sometime soon. And I don’t mean the still in-preperation photobooks.
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