After the bankruptcy of his first two companies, the young Walt Disney decides to call on his older brother Roy to start a new business: the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios. The combination of their opposing talents, one artistic, the other managerial, will give birth to an entertainment giant despite the difficult nature of Walt. Little by little, Walt will push his brother into the shadows and sink into chronic depression and excessive consumption of alcohol ...but all this will not prevent him from producing the greatest masterpieces of animation.
For all readers and admirers of this genius of supernatural fiction, the hauntingly strange and surprising story of the life of H. P. Lovecraft, vividly presented in graphic novel form for the very first time. Creator of the myth of Cthulhu, Arkham, and the sinister Necronomicon, Howard Phillips Lovecraft became known, after his death, as one of the most influential writers Lovecraft had an unusual childhood marked by tragedy. His traveling salesman father developed a mental disorder and, in 1893, became a patient at the Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and there he remained until his death. A sickly child, Lovecraft became an avid reader. He loved the works of Edgar Allan Poe and developed a special interest in astronomy. As a teenager, he suffered a nervous breakdown and became a reclusive figure, choosing to stay up late studying and reading and writing and then sleeping late into the day. During this time, he managed to start publishing short stories his inimitable form of horror fiction. As mythical as one of his own creations, his innumerable readers see him as having been a rather strange figure from another world. Who really was this recluse from Providence?
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, tvůrce mýtu Cthulhu, Arkhama a zlověstného Necronomiconu, je jedním z nejvlivnějších hororových spisovatelů. Komiks francouzského spisovatele Alexe Nikolavitche a týmu argentinských výtvarníků Gervasio-Aon-Lee přináší čtyři kapitoly z Lovecraftova života z let 1925 až 1937, kdy se Lovecraft snažil stát spisovatelem, jak ho známe dnes. Znalci jeho díla v nich najdou motivy známé z jeho povídek a románů. Nakolik jsou tyto povídky autobiografické? Prožil je jejich autor? Nebo se vše odehrálo jen v jeho temné fantazii? Lovecraft v tomto komiksu překračuje hranice prostoru a času a před očima se nám objevuje s jeho finančními problémy, sklony, zálibou ve zmrzlině, kočkách a mládí.
