That only turned up a couple weeks ago. When it did, I commented, "Oh, IF ONLY this had turned up a while back." Due to the "chronological" nature of blogs, I've been struggling to get past the 1960s for the last few YEARS so I can finally move back onto the 70s, where a TON of new items have turned up since I last set up stories from that decade. I was working on the
last "new" item from
1969... in fact, I STILL AM (damned thing is taking way, WAY too long). I just ran out of pages (my doctor friend in Mexico, who's very over-worked these days, still needs to scan and send me the last part of the book). So I decided to set this one up now.
Following some research, I found the scan I used (up to now, the ONLY scan of it online!!!) had been posted at a Frank Bellamy blog. A comics fan, Paul Duncan, re-posted it at a FB group dedicated to English comics. He also re-posted it at the FB page of Paul Gravett, who I recently added to my FB friends list.
Paul Duncan was actually looking for info and scans by one of the OTHER artists who'd worked on that newspaper's "classics" feature. But the Bellamy age was all he'd seen. Good for me. But it caused me about 3 WHOLE DAYS worth of work on the blog, for that SINGLE image!!!!!
It was rather low-res (72 dpi). First I did some minor clean-up. Then I confirmed that the text, at that size, on my blog, was UNREADABLE. So I had to cut it up into 3 horizontal tiers, and re-do the text. Once I'd typed it in, I did 4 different versions, each with larger text, before I was satsified I could read it easily on the blog. ONLY THEN did I decide... yeah, go ahead and COLOR it. It was only at that point that I realized that due to the difference in dpi betrween the 2 programs I was using, I had to make some technical adjustments to the size in Photoshop. This took a few tries to get it right. It wasn't that much work... but, it was CONFUSING. (WHY doesn't everyone just scan at
300 dpi-- and SAVE as "
JPG" format?)
Anyway, there appears to only be
2 of these Poe stories in that newspaper's "
Classics" feature. The other one, "
Amontillado", has art by Roger Martin. And I have NO IDEA who that is. Suffice to say, it has NOT turned up yet.
Now I have to move the other 2 "
1966" stories so they'll all be in sequence. I'm sure a lot of people would say this project is TOO "organized".
Oh, by the way, I don't know if anybody has ever noticed this... but in EVERY Poe story I color, I try to use certain colors for some things as a standard thing. Like, curtains, furniture, and candles. Yes, those oddly-colored MAGENTA candles are that color because... that's what's Corman used in his movies. (I never would have picked such a color for those things on my own.)
It saves me some time if I don't have to come up with colors for every single thing all the time. I started this when, after coloring Tom Sutton's "
RED DEATH" adaptation, I then used the SAME color scheme for 2 other versions of the same story! I've also done SEVERAL different versions of "
USHER" with the same color schemes for the house, and people's clothing.
