Illustration
You know what would make the world a better place? If books had more illustrations. I’ve been looking at books from the 1920s and earlier (because it grieves me to think of all the years they’ve languished unloved on the library shelves) and they all have illustrations. So does The Perilous Gard (which also has fairies and Tam Lin and a love story and Elizabethan England and is made of awesome. Has anyone else read it?), but it’s at the tail end of the illustration boom; after about 1970 only kids’ books have pictures.
I’m not sure if illustrations disappeared because they add to the production costs (and as publishers became more commercial they weren’t willing to eat the loss) or if they were just a fad to begin with, and faded as fads do. Either way it’s tragic.
Perhaps I should start drawing again. I could illustrate my fanfic. It would be like Shoebox!
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Also, links to stuff on Youtube. Trajan is the Movie Font is a rant about how the movie business is addicted to the font Trajan
This Twlight movie trailer spoof is made of hilarious. Also, the actors here are better-looking than the actors in the movie. Especially the guy playing Laurent, who spends his screen time here exposing his abdominal muscles. They’re impressive.
I think Twilight’s main contribution to the world is the excellent parody it spawns, because God knows that the mire of angst and pain that is the second book doesn’t count. Bella needs to stop leading Jacob on. It’s very unkind of her, even if she does have a hole in her chest where her heart ought to be.
I’m not sure if illustrations disappeared because they add to the production costs (and as publishers became more commercial they weren’t willing to eat the loss) or if they were just a fad to begin with, and faded as fads do. Either way it’s tragic.
Perhaps I should start drawing again. I could illustrate my fanfic. It would be like Shoebox!
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Also, links to stuff on Youtube. Trajan is the Movie Font is a rant about how the movie business is addicted to the font Trajan
This Twlight movie trailer spoof is made of hilarious. Also, the actors here are better-looking than the actors in the movie. Especially the guy playing Laurent, who spends his screen time here exposing his abdominal muscles. They’re impressive.
I think Twilight’s main contribution to the world is the excellent parody it spawns, because God knows that the mire of angst and pain that is the second book doesn’t count. Bella needs to stop leading Jacob on. It’s very unkind of her, even if she does have a hole in her chest where her heart ought to be.