The story (both text and artwork) are in the style of a very famous cat with a hat, taking the short story and turning it in to a series of short rhyming verses. Here is the next of Chaosium’s beginners guides to – this time – Dagon (following on from the first instalment The Call of Cthulhu) You can see more of Richard's work - including some great Doctor Who posters - on DeviantArt.Okay now on to another bit of fun. I kind of figured that the whole thing is available to folks online for nothing - but if people would like to get it onto their mobile devices, I'm not averse to the idea. If it doesn't happen that way, I'm sure I'll figure out some other way to make it available to everyone who has requested it.Īs far as an e-book goes, I haven't looked too closely at that. Now that I'm much closer to the end I've been reconnecting with those folks, and I'm very much hopeful that a dead tree edition will see the light of day. I didn't want to pursue it too quickly because I wasn't done yet, and I wanted to make sure that if someone did intend publishing it they could see what they would be getting. Ivankovic: As I was working on the original fifty pages I was contacted by a number of different folks who wanted to publish The Call of Cthulhu (For Beginning Readers), including a prominent publisher of Lovecraft-related works, which was absolutely mind-blowing.

How's that coming? Have you looked into doing an eBook? Some have suggested that I take on some of the other Lovecraft stories, and I imagine that there's a good chance those will appear at some point.ĬranfordTeague: You mention in DeviantArt that you are looking to get The Call of Cthulhu (For Beginning Readers) published. That's how I've ended up re-doing all the single pages into double page spreads. By the time I got to the end I knew I had a lot of revising to do, and one of the things I wanted to do was open up the space on the pages - to 'un-cram' it, so to speak. It's quite easy to lose sight of that Seussian quality once you're fifty pages in. Of course, as I went along I became more comfortable with Seuss's style and could see where things hadn't quite worked with what I was doing – the rhyme, the hatching, the font, the page layouts, and whatever else. I realized that I owed it to those folks to really improve what I was doing, so I had it in my mind quite early on that some revisions would be necessary. The views came flooding in, and I was getting some excellent feedback. Ivankovic: I think it was around page ten when somebody posted something about what I was doing somewhere.

Ivankovic: The original fifty pages took about two and a half months, completed at nights after work.ĬranfordTeague: Why did you decide to redo some of the pages as double spread? CranfordTeague: How long did it end up taking you to create the pages?

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