8th Dark Tower Novel - The Wind Through the Keyhole

[Nerak]

was good story!! And It does matter what the title is. It needs to be The Dark Tower: Wind Through the Keyhole if it's gonna match..... at least I think so!

[Tito_Villa]

Quick question - with Jae Lee being the illustrator will all of the illustrations be in black and white because he had a colourer in the comics?

[Brainslinger]

Quick question - with Jae Lee being the illustrator will all of the illustrations be in black and white because he had a colourer in the comics?

I would think not, although it's possible. I think the two types of art are produced rather differently (although comic art is sometimes used in prose novels.) From what I understand, the big two, DC and Marvel, tend to produce a lot of their work like a factory production line. So often you have one artist doing pencils, one inking, one colouring. (That's not a strict rule but that seems to be how many do things. It's a bit different over here in the UK, as one artist will often do the whole lot, or at least ink his own pencils. ) I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's a speed thing or maybe they just like the idea of lots of artists bringing something slightly different to the art. (Bearing in mind inking isn't just tracing. )

With the novel art I'm sure Jae Lee will have more time to produce the art, so he'll likely paint it too. there isn't the need for speed that the comics require. A lot of comic artists are well capable of doing the other art jobs even if they tend to stick to one thing on comics.

This is just me guessing though. Maybe someone in the actual know will provide us with more information soon.

[Nerak]

Quick question - with Jae Lee being the illustrator will all of the illustrations be in black and white because he had a colourer in the comics?

Not all B&W

[Tito_Villa]

Quick question - with Jae Lee being the illustrator will all of the illustrations be in black and white because he had a colourer in the comics?

Not all B&W

Thanks Karen

[Ari_Racing]

Any sneak peak we can see of the artwork that is already made?

[Jimimck]

Any sneak peak we can see of the artwork that is already made?

Go on. You know CD would give us a preview Nudge Nudge

[Ari_Racing]

But the S/L is made by Grant, not Cemetery Dance.

[herbertwest]

So the BIG announcement on this board will be around the date of the 1st of october, which is the end of the DARKTOWER.COM countdown...

[Ari_Racing]

Actually the countdown ends on September 18th, and this one ends on October.

[JameseyLefebure]

Hey Guys - Does anyone know when this is coming out? I've not actually been on the board for about a year so i'm finding it a nightmare to try and read EVERYTHING that got posted while I was away - you guys sure do talk alot

Jamesey
xxxxx

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

April 3rd, 2012

[JameseyLefebure]

thanks very much

[herbertwest]

Actually the countdown ends on September 18th, and this one ends on October.

Oh yeah darktower.com 's countdown finishes the 18th of september then? i thought it was the first of october!
18th of september... and ron howard's announcement was done on the 8th of september 2010

[costanza]

Ms. Mod on the main site says this is official but that it doesn't mention everything. From amazon.uk

For readers new to The Dark Tower, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.

This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." "A person's never too old for stories," he says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them." And stories like these, they live for us.

[mae]

We have cover:



Very Tolkienesque. Although it does say, it's not the final cover: http://catalog.simonandschuster.com/...=9781451658903

[Ben Staad]

I like it and yes it does remind me of the Tolkien books. Hopefully they won't add "bestselling author" anywhere to the cover.

[frik]

Kinda dull, isn't it?
Not one of my favorites.

sk

[mae]

And very un-Kinglike.

[Merlin1958]

Is it just me or, does anyone else feel that it is just screaming for someone(s) or something to be depicted in that clearing past the big rock. Or maybe on the big rock for that matter!!!

[Bev Vincent]

I like it a lot -- it's very representative of the book, especially the underlying story within the story within the story, which is very much a quest-type tale.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

I does not say, "Wind Through the Keyhole" to me.

[Merlin1958]

FWIW, it's not yet utilized on the King site.................yet

I hear ya RT, but maybe it makes more sense after reading the story?

[mae]

Again, I reiterate, the Scribner site states the cover is not final, so very likely it can change. I kinda like it, it's different. And this is the Scribner edition. The Grant edition will surely have its own cover.

[Bev Vincent]

The title is more metaphorical than literal.