The Moorcock Inn

[lemec]

I'm having a nice gin.

I'm looking forward to this Monday.

I heard something faintly drifting upon the Winds.

I have learned that there perhaps will be an announcement that might be of interest to us.

I think that on February 1st, 2021, there will be news about an upcoming Michael Moorcock related item.

It is something that will be in print on March 1st, if I remember it right.

I'll stop by the Inn again, when I have more information and details.

Hooray!

[Pietro_Mercurios]

That's very interesting & intriguing... 🤔

Me, I'm going to kick back & sink a Gulpener &/or a Grimbergen, or two. Maybe watch an Avengers episode, with Steed & Mrs Peel, or a Maigret, with Bruno Cremer. Maybe, all of the above.

[lemec]

That's very interesting & intriguing... 🤔

Me, I'm going to kick back & sink a Gulpener &/or a Grimbergen, or two. Maybe watch an Avengers episode, with Steed & Mrs Peel, or a Maigret, with Bruno Cremer. Maybe, all of the above.

Yes! Indeed it is!

This is impressive!

From Jayde Design-

"Jayde Design (in association with Savoy Books) proudly presents The Stormbringer Sessions: Sketches For a Graphic Novel by James Cawthorn.

This book is not a finished graphic novel, as such. Neither is it merely a book of rough sketches.

While organising the late, great James Cawthorn’s archive for deposit at Oxford University’s world-renowned Bodleian Library, two boxes were discovered labelled “Stormbringer Roughs” and “Stormbringer Strip Photocopies”. In combination, they comprised a complete set of the artist’s incredibly detailed preliminary sketches for an ultimately unrealised, brand-new graphic adaptation -- some two hundred and fifty pages, in total -- of Michael Moorcock’s classic Elric of Melniboné novel, Stormbringer.

Entirely unpublished previously, that is what this book is…

A “work of powerful and sustained imagination” and the “most perfect collaboration between artist and writer that there has ever been”.

Due to be published on 1st March, 2021, as a 272-page outsized hardcover (approx. 12¼" x 9" [31cm x 23cm]) with a brand-new introduction by John Davey and an afterword by Savoy Books co-founder David Britton (his last completed piece of writing before his death in December 2020 [although there is one final novel left to be published posthumously]).

N.B. “This edition includes one hundred [decorated] slip-cased copies numbered from 1 to 100, one hundred trade copies branded ‘TR’ and fifty complimentary copies (for contributors, legal deposit, review, etc.) branded ‘C.C.’.”; the limited edition also comes with a full-colour loose-leaf print.

For an illustrated preview, plus links to pre-order copies, please see here: https://moorcography.org/the-stormbringer-sessions-sketches-for-a-graphic-novel.

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[Kamelion]

Really happy to see preorders up for the Cawthorn book! Can't wait to see the book in print (which may take a while for me, as it's going to my UK address rather than risk shipping it out to the UAE... and it's not really clear at the moment when I'll be able to get back to the UK in person!)

[lemec]

The sketches sound like they are going to be really cool. It looks to be many pages of fantastic material, it will be very nice to see, and a lot of fun.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

I would love a copy, at least of the TPB. The temptation... 🤩

It's driving me to order a bottle of, Hertog Jan, Grand Prestige.

[lemec]

I would love a copy, at least of the TPB. The temptation... 🤩

It's driving me to order a bottle of, Hertog Jan, Grand Prestige.

Very cool!

I think that both are limited editions.

There might only be 100 of the TPBs.

[lemec]

I received a copy, and I'm going to look through it after the weekend.

[Doc]

I received a copy, and I'm going to look through it after the weekend.

Very nice. Acquisition of any limited edition deserves a toast!

[lemec]

Very nice. Acquisition of any limited edition deserves a toast!

I'm joining you with a Vodka!

Cheers!