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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and…

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The Life of Chuck

Gregory Manchess

July 18, 2025 - 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 designs with master bookbinder, Richard Tong, publisher of Lyra’s Books. Rich and Marcelo had been working on a number of very private commissions for the director Mike Flanagan (an edition of Midnight Mass), when Mike contacted them to make a very special book. But this wasn’t an average assignment at all. King’s story is a unique three-act tale told in…

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