NEW AT PULP'S ART MAY 30

Hello readers, quite a lot to like in this week's new releases and we'll take off with,

ANGRY BIRDS: HATCHING A UNIVERSE

HC162pp Color Black + White

Insight Editions

The phenomenal success of this game franchise is another one of those that passed this old duffer by as I like traditional media and means of communication. So what I know is that what started out as a game for mobiles and such from Finland has become a world wide hit, spawning all the spin offs enterprise can think off and oh yeah the characters are all irritable birds.

Anything else I might want to know about past, present and future for the cranky chicks and their franchise I can find in this coffee table art book, dedicated to the feathered fiends from Espoo Finland!

And we're stuck with crazy fauna again in,

THE RESURRECTIONIST: THE LOST WORK OF Dr SPENCER BLACK

HC 192pp Color, Black + White

Quirck Books

Well this is certainly an original oddity in which the actual author E.B. Hudspeth imagines the lost journals and research of a Doctor Black, a scientist of the mid 19th century convinced that mythical creatures were in fact evolutionary steps on humanities journey to today's specimens.

The book is the biography of Dr Black's strange life and his  weirder research including detailed and oddly beautiful anatomical studies of mermaids, satyrs, minotaurs etc., you haven't read or seen anything quite like this!

A  very welcome addition to our shelves is,

JEFFREY JONES THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE

HC or SC 208pp Color Black + White

Vanguard Productions

Vanguard follow up their definitive reference of Frank Frazett's works with this volume dedicated to another master of heroic fantasy, Jeffrey Jones.

That Jones would venture off from illustration and comic strip work to pursuit fine art was hardly surprising given the subtlety of his work, which was as much informed by masters of the impressionist movement as it was by the giants of the Brandywine School of Illustration but at the height of his commercial success he was as much sort after as Frazetta, himself an enthusiastic admirer of Jones' work.

This full run down of the artist's published work is profusely illustrated and in addition there are essays and tributes by collectors, collaborators and friends to this extraordinarily talented artist.

So, I'm hoping to receive some more books but I don't want to tempt fate and so I'll just post this for now but keep watching this space please.

Oh, and any readers in Germany should know we've a significant presence at the Munchen Comic Festival these next 4 days, including having Daniela Uhlig signing her new book with us, Sugar Girls over the weekend.  CHEERS!