Donald M. Grant has put out an email announcing that Jae Lee has signed on to illustrate The Wind Through the Keyhole.
Lilja's Library cites the moderator at the S.K. message board:
Jae Lee has signed on to illustrate Stephen's next Dark Tower book, The Wind Through the Keyhole, which will be published as a limited edition by Donald M. Grant Publisher. Orders are not yet being taken and a final release date has not been established. For more details about this upcoming limited edition, please visit Donald M. Grant Publisher.
Check out more of Jae Lee's work here:
http://theartofjaelee.com/index.php
Bryant likey.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing how Lee depicts Eddie and Susannah and Jake -- should be pretty cool.
I keep almost forgetting that there's a new Dark Tower novel coming. Seems almost too cool to even be true.
This will sound crazy. . . but I'm not getting my hopes up. Saving my energy for the time travel novel.
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Tower is a tale told; so it's hard to see how a new novel will add to the plot or storyline of the dark tower.
But then. . . I'm not the master of horror! I do lookforward tos eeing what he does with this. I'm just afraid it iwll focus solely on secondary characters. But then, maybe we'll get a "hobbit" out of this.
I can see that. I'd say a good barometer for how "The Wind Through the Keyhole" can succeed despite being part of a story that is generally already ended is "The Little Sisters of Eluria." That novella doesn't have any great significance in terms of the overall story, but it's still a very entertaining and well-written story.
ReplyDeleteIf that's basically all we get with the new novel, then I'll be more than pleased with it.
I don't think I own, or have read, little sisters!
ReplyDeleteYou need to getcha one!
ReplyDeleteI find Jae Lee to be overrated, but I prefer realism to stylized art. I am... reserving judgement on WttK. If it is like W&G, mostly Roland telling a tale of lost lands, then I am down with it. If it is more rollicking adventures with Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy, then I will be turned off.
ReplyDeleteKnow what. . . I haven't read W&G yet (cover to cover). I skipped and dipped. I need to read the whole series again, but don't want to start since I am in the middle of the Stand and the new novel comes out in the fall. But I will say. . . I don't feel like I missed much having skipped the middle section of WG.
ReplyDeleteGrumpy Celt, I don't entirely know what you mean by saying you prefer realistic art as opposed to what Jae Lee does. His art seems to be less realistic than, say, Michael Whelan's ... but on the other hand, it's far more realistic than the dreadful "illustrations" Dave McKean did for Wizard and Glass.
ReplyDeleteOf course, taste in art is highly subjective; I'm sure a lot of people love McKean's work, I'm just not one of them.
And by the way, just so we're clear, I'm not criticizing your opinion, I just don't understand what you mean in a literal sense. I'm interested, though, so feel free to keep the conversation a-rollin'.
And David, my man ... you are DEFINITELY missing much by having skipped over the middle section of Wizard and Glass. Easily some of the best stuff King has ever written.
I missed W&G because I had checked out of SK for a while! I returned to serious reading about the time Wolves came out. In the mean time, there was a college degree to worry about. Funny, I own about 3 copies, even a first, of the book. Even have it on audible. I just need to have the time to read it. It's not like a short story.
ReplyDeleteYou know, as many S.K. books as there are out there, I think even hardcore fans can be forgiven for not having read every single word.
ReplyDeleteSo there's your pass, sir!
I do prefer Michael Whelan's work and dislike Dave McKean's work.
ReplyDeleteA beautifully written fairy tale. One thing that always bothered me about Roland's matricide is how utterly offhand it felt in Wizard and Glass, and how little we knew of Roland's reaction to it. Now we get to hear more of Gabrielle Deschain and Roland's relationship with her. It not only adds to the story, it's crucial to fleshing out Roland as a person
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