send in the clowns (gulp!)...

you really have no idea how much that title frightens me... it's no accident that i named my illustration/painting/etc. company dead clown art. only clown is a dead clown and all. so why the brave title?

thanks for asking! posting to announce that my full color wraparound cover (plus cover design) for the upcoming (middle 2008) creepy and outstanding novel 'The Pilo Family Circus' by Will Elliott, is damn near ready for press!

here's the cover:



details about the novel:

'The Pilo Family Circus'
a novel by Will Elliott
publication date: Middle 2008
Slipcased hardcover: $100 (print run 200 copies)
Regular hardcover: $40 (print run 500 copies)
Introduction: John Berlyne
to be published by UK-based PS Publishing

link to the novel page on the PS site (slipcased hardcover edition):

novel page

PS Publishing has published books by Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Joe Hill, and Stephen King, just to name a few. check out their site here.

other news: still picking stories to eventually edit for a horror short story collection (currently untitled) to be released by Another Sky Press later 2008. very excited to be working with the visionary Kristopher Young again!

also: trying to find time to paint - grumble - not having much luck in that department. do have two very weird ideas for paintings, once time and i are on speaking terms again:

goat woman with a long, intricate, open coat, exposing hundreds of breasts, creepy crawly bugs, stars and such...

two happy naked men with alligator masks holding hands and hot dogs, standing on a watermelon canoe, floating on water, eyeballs and rub off letters littering the night sky...

um, apologies in advance. thanks for playing!

chris