CRITERION PRESENTS KURONEKO

Kaneto Shindo's haunting, erotic ghost story KURONEKO is making its way to the Criterion Collection this October. I worked on this cover with Eric Skillman, who came up with this concept as an adaptation of my original theatrical poster. The gang is planning something neat for the printing of this cover and I'll be excited to see it in person. More images from the rest of the package and menus to come. KURONEKO has been one of my favorite film discoveries in recent years... I adore it and I'm excited for others to discover it too. Take a look:

ALL TOMORROW'S POSTERS

Criterion, along with CC alumn Jim Jarmusch, are curating another All Tomorrow's Parties film festival, and this year Criterion head designer Eric Skillman--no stranger to the comic book world as he has written several of his own-- rounded up some amazing comic artists to create new posters for select films in the series. The result is pure pulp awesomeness: the first three that have appeared online are the above NIGHT OF THE HUNTER poster by Matt Kindt and these two below by Scott Morse for BRUTE FORCE and TOUCHES PAS AU GRISBI. According to Morse's blog, it seems that Skillman might be transforming these original paintings into comic-cover form himself. Nice work fellas! Can't wait to see what else has been commissioned for this. Thanks to Ryan at CriterionCast.com for bringing these to my attention.

ERIC SKILLMAN

One of the pleasures of working with The Criterion Collection was meeting a fellow designer whom I admire, Eric Skillman. Eric is a designer, illustrator, art director and comic writer, and he handles a lot of Criterion's gold-standard DVD cover designs in house. His blog, Cozy Lummox, is a great designer's bookmark, as Eric frequently posts about the design process behind some of these already-iconic covers. As someone who recently fell head first into pro cover design with my recent work for Criterion, Eric's process blogs have been extremely helpful and inspiring. Plus, if you're a Criterion junkie like me, it's neat to see all of the rejected cover designs, no matter how unfinished. Below are some of Eric's Criterion covers, including some fantastic illustrations for the release of BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (also seen above), and his latest cover for John Ford's STAGECOACH. I watched the latter on Blu-ray just last night, and I can say that this cover definitely amps you up to appreciate this black-and-white western as a piece of entertainment. Also check out this 20 Questions piece, in which Eric talks some more about his process and designing for Criterion.