Manic Street Preachers-inspired 'Kevin Carter' Art Print Peter Hook called Quench

called Quench

This is one of my first efforts for The Cure

but this was always one of my favourites: she so clearly has huge power over this poor defeated sap

retro cover for Stevenson's 'The Curious Story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' is a pulp horror stalwart

I considered a vintage print ad for tractors - some good John Deere prospects - but in the end the heavy innuendo of the song suggested a better approach was to ignore the actual tractor and go into the seductive barn fatale genre instead

Manic Street Preachers-inspired 'Kevin Carter' Art Print Peter Hook called QuenchManic Street Preachers, in their early days, were kings of intense melancholia. The subject of this song, Kevin Carter, was a photojournalist who committed suicide following his win of the Pulitzer for a photo he took during the crushing drought in (now) South Sudan, called 'The Vulture and The Little Girl'. Tough times; this great vintage retro pulp paperback is an unusual combination of photographer and seediness, which doubles as internal turmoil.