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The Life of Chuck

Gregory Manchess

Lately I’ve been illustrating classic novels for special handmade editions. One publishing house I’ve worked with is Arete Editions in the UK. I’ve worked with the publisher, Marcelo Anciano, for twenty years and we love to discuss books and publishing and writing when working together. It’s from one of those conversations that he offered me the chance to illustrate Stephen King’s mild ghost story, The Life of Chuck. Marcelo also works on books and interior…

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THE BLACK HOLE SUPERETTE EXPERIENCE

Justin Coro Kaufman

May 29, 2025 - Hey all, Got kind of an interesting submission this month continuing on with the Aesop Rock theme. On the last album cover I did for him, the special edition had lights in laid into the packaging and it played a song so there was a running joke about how we were going to try to make this one more complicated. at some point, I realized I’m building all of these 3-D assets for the packaging art, so it probably wouldn’t be that much more work to take this stuff and put it in unreal engine and try to turn it into like a little interactive thing where people could dig a little further into the album concept and maybe sample some snippets or whatever. I pitched the idea to Aesop and he seemed into it…

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