Gaimania, Who and faeries, oh my
A Neil Gaiman tribute album that will be released by Dancing Ferret Discs in mid July (according to Billboard article) will have Gaiman-inspired music by Tori Amos (a new recording of Sister Named Desire) and 16 other artists. (via The Beat)
The new Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston will start showing in Finnish tv (YLE TV2) in autumn! Right, no commercials! Wohoo ^_^ (in the news, via Snowgrouse)
I only recently noticed (via Emma) that Brian Froud’s ingenious Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book has received two sequels: Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album…
Brian Froud, faery expert and somewhat reluctant consultant to the Cottington Archive, has verified that this rare Victorian photo album is the property of Angelica Cottington’s elder sister, Euphemia Cottington, who mysteriously disappeared when Angelica was a young child. This facsimile reproduction is exact in every detail, featuring what Froud believes to be actual photographs of fairies taken by Euphemia accompanied by a journal of her magical and somewhat scandalous and shocking exploits. The volume is also overflowing with a wild assortment of Angelica’s now-infamous pressed, flattened and squashed fairies.
…and Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Letters…
The Cottington Archive reluctantly announces that more information about the infamous Lady Cottington has surfaced: a scrapbook compiled by the fairy smasher herself of her correspondence with luminaries such as Queen Victoria, Annie Oakley, Igor Stravinsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lang, P.T. Barnum, and more. All about fairies, these hilarious letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she EVER STOP this nasty habit?!).
…that I simply must have ^_^ I was somewhat less pleased about the re-release of Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book as a 10th Anniversary Edition with “eight additional pages and enhanced artwork throughout, virtually overflowing with freshly flattened fairies” and a new introduction by Brian Froud and Terry Jones. Since I already have the original version, that is. They also have released an enhanced 25th Anniversary Edition of Faeries that we already own two copies of (my paperback and Dugi’s harcover) O.o
The good news is that they’re doing this to many other Froud books as well and I’m really looking forward to the October release of Anniversary Edition of Goblins of Labyrinth! More info on these and a lot more in World of Froud.
