The French title for A Feast Unknown is La Jungle Nue, “The Naked Jungle”…in Italy it is Festa di Morte, “The Feast of Dead Men”. But it seemed they missed the subtlety in Farmer’s title. Not all editions have it, but most show this stanza from the poem Evolution before the story begins. The poet,Continue reading “A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – Part 2 of 3”
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A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – Part 1 of 3
The Philip José Farmer novel A Feast Unknown debuted in 1969, published by Essex House. I’ve told the story before of how I encountered it four years later, in 1973 at age fifteen. At that time I was living in the beach town of Ocean City, Maryland. Strictly speaking, my family was actually homeless, squattingContinue reading “A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – Part 1 of 3”
Visually conceptualizing Doc in canon and pastiche
In working to portray or extrapolate on an iconic character, one of the most powerful tools is visual presentation. Written descriptions have great power, but a superb visual can have profound impact. If one considers core Doc Savage canon to be the run of pulp magazines from 1933-1949, the visual presentation of Doc is thatContinue reading “Visually conceptualizing Doc in canon and pastiche”
Two Holy Mountains: Philip José Farmer and Alejandro Jodorowsky
Turning back the calendar fifty years, it was an exciting time in society for pushing the boundaries of creativity. It’s hard sometimes to see a clear pathway to who influenced whom, particularly when many concepts are being channeled through a period of cultural extremes. Two strong iconoclastic voices of that period were author Philip JoséContinue reading “Two Holy Mountains: Philip José Farmer and Alejandro Jodorowsky”
A Feast Unknown cover art through the decades
There have been a lot of editions of Philip José Farmer’s A Feast Unknown novel through the years since it was first published over fifty years ago. Because of the intensely visceral quality of the story, it offers a wide range of approaches for publishers to take in presenting it, from restrained to lurid. PriorContinue reading “A Feast Unknown cover art through the decades”
A Feast Unknown On Stage
The article below, written by Jason Robert Bell (AKA Iason Ragnar Bellerophon) appeared in issue #2 of the Philip José Farmer fanzine Farmerphile, back in 2005. Ten years later R. Paul Sardanas acquired a copy of it, and it became the catalyst for the author and artist to join forces in the creation of DocContinue reading “A Feast Unknown On Stage”
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