The Kitsune Noir Poster Club

December 16, 2009 9:11 AM

The Kitsune Noir Poster Club "feature[s] curated prints by all kinds of artists & designers creating around central themes." Current designs are for Infinite Jest (by Cody Hoyt), Moby Dick (by Mark Weaver), Slaughterhouse 5 (by Frank Chimero), Walden (by Jez Burrows), and The Road by Garrett Vander Leun. From Bobby Solomon's Kitsune Noir Art & Design Blog and Society6.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy (11 comments total)

Some of those books are in the public domain. Maybe they could set something up with Lulu and arrange for prints of the book with those nice covers.
posted by mccarty.tim at 9:22 AM on December 16, 2009

These are pretty cool, I really like the Moby Dick and Walden ones. The prices aren't insane either.
posted by marxchivist at 9:31 AM on December 16, 2009

I'm with marxchivist on Moby Dick and Walden . . . these really hit the central flavor of both books. I liked The Road a lot too, for the same reason.
posted by bearwife at 9:42 AM on December 16, 2009

The Infinite Jest design is purely amazing -- actually approximates to scope of the work, as opposed to that Windows desktop-background version that has proliferated.
posted by hermitosis at 9:44 AM on December 16, 2009

Heads will be microwaved.

Love it.
posted by mrgrimm at 10:15 AM on December 16, 2009

I believe the quote on the IJ cover is:

"I think of John N. R. Wayne, who would have won this year's WhataBurger, standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."
posted by mrgrimm at 10:19 AM on December 16, 2009

Wow, these are really cool! Thanks for sharing. I will be adding Society6 to my GoogleReader. :)
posted by too bad you're not me at 10:43 AM on December 16, 2009

I'm getting about a .500 batting average here if these are meant to represent the work in question, and more like .750 if it's just "this is something kind of based on a book." Infinite Jest is perfection, Walden is great, Moby Dick and Slaughterhouse Five are okay but don't really add anything to the book experience for me, and that The Road thing is kind of shit, unless I'm missing something.
posted by Shepherd at 12:08 PM on December 16, 2009

You're not missing anything. Nor is anyone who skipped the book. Ba-dum-pum!
posted by mrgrimm at 12:25 PM on December 16, 2009

I came for the kitsune.
/disappointed
posted by Wolfdog at 2:03 PM on December 16, 2009

The Infinite Jest poster gave me a serious case of the howling fantods.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:30 AM on December 17, 2009