Central Terre Haute
The mecha genre has fascinated me for decades, from Gundam Wing to Neon Genesis Evangelion to Pacific Rim. Not just because of the large, cool robots, but because of what they are made to represent: the outsized devastation humanity can wreak; the way we instrumentalize the innocent to perpetuate war; the fragility and resilience of the human body writ large.
editor Carl Engle-Laird on Emma Mieko Candon ‘s novel The Archive Undying
“Exclamation Point” by A. Raskin and M. Slobodsky. Cover art by K. Rotov (USSR, 1939)
Love the Herrimanesque vibe of this Soviet book cover by Konstantin Rotov. The flower print matches and yet contrasts perfectly.
Soviet cartoonist and illustrator Konstantin Rotov’s cover for A Bear's Teeth Began to Ache from Too Much Honey.