I resisted the PCS Howling statue pre-order, but my financial restraint has crumbled.
The campaign ends on November 11th, and Nakatomi, Inc is optimistic that they can have backer rewards in the mail in time for those 2017 calendars to be hung on walls by January 1st. Some images of the 2017 calendar reward and Bernie’s concept sketches are below. Those extra rewards include a 2017 calendar, a 1984 calendar(!), a t-shirt, and a special boxed set of prints featuring a real (inert) silver bullet and original hand-drawn Cycle of the Werewolf art from Bernie’s archives. This campaign is less than two days old and it’s already raised over $45,000 against a $12,000 goal, with many of its limited quantity higher-tier rewards quickly on the way to being sold out. This Kickstarter project is to fund a high-quality artist edition collection of the full color illustrations from Cycle of the Werewolf as a print set, along with a book collecting the Black and White illustrations and never-before printed concept and process sketches. It’s not going to change your life, but it might entertain you for half an hour.Bernie Wrightson and Nakatomi, Inc are collaborating on a deluxe fine art portfolio of Wrightson’s artwork for Stephen King’s 1984 calendar-turned-book, Cycle of the Werewolf. But it’s fun and a quick read I suppose, on par with Creepshow. I wouldn’t recommend it to the casual reader – King fans only. So, like I said, it’s hard to write about this one because you can’t compare it to his novels or even his stories. Who cares if that meant scrapping the calendar? Let’s face it, doesn’t matter what they asked for, Steve is a storyteller and the story was going to find a way out. So, the first months start out as little vignettes about a werewolf killing someone that month (conveniently around the most important date) but eventually a plot emerges and some of the months are stretched out a little.
I really can’t remember why I know this, but I think this book was commissioned as a calendar – hence the pictures and short chapters revolving around the months. I’d say it’s shorter than a lot of the short stories – AND there’s not much story to it! Not until halfway at least. It’s hard to write about this one as it’s not a novel, or even a novella. I messed up the count a couple of books ago and I’ve changed them, but this is definitely number 18. Stephen King re-read #18 (current position #14) Cycle of The Werewolf by Stephen King 3.5⭐
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