Today, Beehive Books launched a Kickstarter for the newest launch from their Illuminated Editions imprint: an illustrated and annotated version of Carlo Collodi‘s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. The new Pinocchio: The Illuminated Edition will feature Collodi’s authentic textual content accompanied by illustrations from comics celebrity Mike Mignola and colorist Dave Stewart, in addition to annotations to the textual content by novelist Lemony Snicket. To have fun the launch of the crowdfunding marketing campaign for the e book, The Beat is happy to current an unique first take a look at just a few of Mignola’s illustrations, in addition to just a few phrases from Mignola himself about the challenge.
Here’s how Beehive Books describes Pinocchio: The Illuminated Edition:
This is a totally authentic option to learn PINOCCHIO. Mignola and Snicket should not merely elaborating on or presenting Carlo Collodi’s beloved novel – they’re having their very own unusual adventures by way of it, and we’re fortunate sufficient to be invited alongside as their companions.
Our version consists of not solely a set of over fifty beautiful authentic illustrations from Mike Mignola and colorist Dave Stewart, respiration a beautiful new life to the allure, gloom, and chaos of this traditional… it additionally contains a full textual content annotation by Lemony Snicket, who takes the reader together with him for his personal first expertise of the story in all of its effervescent stew of anarchic insanity, surreal symbolism and social commentary. Snicket’s annotations are introduced as detachable typewritten sheets, full with all the tell-tale revisions and ink-stains of an incipient authorial insanity.
Speaking with The Beat about the challenge, artist Mike Mignola described what drew him to it. “I love that what PINOCCHIO comes down to is basically “If you’re bad, you will kill your parents.””, Mignola stated. “I don’t know that that really resonates with me but it is what I find fascinating about the book.”
The new presentation of Pinocchio might be out there in three completely different print codecs, as described in the assertion asserting the Kickstarter:
PINOCCHIO: An Illuminated Edition is available in three print editions: a slipcase hardcover, a signed and numbered version, and a sketched and lettered version. All ten titles in the Beehive Books’ Illuminated Editions sequence can be found by way of the marketing campaign, and Beehive will provide sure reductions on bulk orders. Each title additionally comes as a DRM-free digital PDF, which is included together with each print version. The normal version is an oversize 9×12″ hardcover, sure in sewn signatures, and housed in an elaborately embossed and debossed die-cut slipcase, silk-screened or foil-stamped with paintings. The inside is printed on creamy, acid-free heavy-weight 140gsm uncoated paper with a fantastic tooth, and consists of dozens of full shade illustrations, illuminated letters, and particular design items.
The complete bundle is designed by Maëlle Doliveux with a restrained graphic boldness, and an unparalleled eye for magnificence, readability and readability. There may also be a signed & numbered version restricted to 250 backers which is available in a foil-stamped slipcase wrapped in natural-fiber binding material. The editions have dyed edges, bound-in silk ribbon markers, and specialty bookplates, signed and numbered by Mike Mignola and Lemony Snicket. This version additionally comes with a Kickstarter-exclusive foil-blocked 8×11″ print by Mike Mignola. The lettered version is available in a clamshell housing with enamel plates re-creating Mignola’s paintings mounted onto its French door enclosures, and consists of an authentic Pinocchio drawing from Mignola. All editions embody dozens of slipped-in typesheet pages authored by Snicket on a mid-century Smith Corona typewriter.
Check out the unique reveal of a trio of Mignola’s illustrations from the e book beneath. The Kickstarter marketing campaign for Pinocchio: The Illuminated Edition is dwell now, and runs by way of Thursday, April twentieth.
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