#Gary A. Lippincott

[comparativetarot]

Goblin Market. Art by Gary A. Lippincott, from The Victorian Faery Tarot.

[lookcaitlin]

[hada-gotica]

by Gary A. Lippincott

[osz-winkelmann]

Gary Lippincott

artist unknown

[the-forest-library]

October 2023 Reads

Time to Shine - Rachel Reid

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh - Rachael Lippincott

Jane & Edward - Melodie Edwards

10 Things That Never Happened - Alexis Hall

The Wake-Up Call - Beth O'Leary

Something Fabulous - Alexis Hall

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date - Ashley Herring Blake

Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross

You, Again - Kate Goldbeck

Stars in Your Eyes - Kacen Callender

Icebreaker - A.L. Graziadei

Thin Air - Kellie M. Parker

Lock Every Door - Riley Sager

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty

Are You Listening? - Tillie Walden

I Must Be Dreaming - Roz Chast

The Best of the Rejection Collection - Matthew Differ

Why Cats are Assholes - Liz Miele

Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren't Aware Of - Doogie Horner

In the Form of a Question - Amy Schneider

Pageboy - Elliot Page

Leslie F*cking Jones - Leslie Jones

Soul Boom - Rainn Wilson

You're Gonna Die Alone - Devrie Donalson

The Other Family Doctor - Karen Fine

Misfit - Gary Gulman

Wordslut - Amanda Montell

Unruly - David Mitchell

Poverty by America - Matthew Desmond

Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean - Christopher Kimball

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Bit of a lackluster month with few standouts and several disappointments.

Goodreads Goal: 354/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads| 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

[nicxxx5]

book wish list

hi! this is different from my typical posts ig but if there's one thing i love it's making lists! here is my wish list for books that i want to get as of now

The Hate U Give; Angie Thomas

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; Erika L. Sanchez

You're Welcome Universe; Whitney Gardner

Leah on The Offbeat; Becky Albertalli

Picture us in the Light; Kelly Log Gilbert

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg

Cupid Painted Blind; Marcus Herzig

The Dangerous Art of Blending In; Angelo Surmelis

Mexican Whiteboy; Matt de la Pena

Ball Don't Lie; Matt de la Pena

Bloom; Kevin Panetta

We Contain Multitudes; Sarah Henstra

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Kheryn Callender

Been Here All Along; Sandy Hall

You Asked For Perfect; Laura Silverman

The Music of Dolphins; Karen Hesse

Silence; Deborah Lytton

Accidental Love; Gary Soto

Every Day; David Levithan

Me Before You; Jojo Moyes

Artemis Fowl; Eoin Colfer

Unspoken; Sarah Rees Brennan

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell; Chris Colfer

Snakehead: Alex Rider; Anthony Horowitz

Fablehaven; Brandon Mull

Virals; Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (or the Golden Compass); Philip Pullman

The Last Apprectice/The Spook's Secret; Joseph Delaney

Disney After Dark: Kingdom Keepers; Ridley Pearson

The Thing About Jellyfish; Ali Benjamin

Pan's Labyrinth; Guillermo del Toro

History is All You Left Me; Adam Silvera

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros; Edith Hamilton

Starfish; Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mosquitoland; David Arnold

Challenger Deep; Neal Shusterman

The Ghosts we Keep; Mason Deaver

The Passing Playbook; Isaac Fitzsimons

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

Holding up the Universe; Jennifer Niven

All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

Renegades; Marissa Meyer

The Female of the Species; Mindy McGinnis

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Holly Jackson

Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid

She Gets the Girl; Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derric

Kisses and Croissants; Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe

The Rise of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

Love and Olives; Jenna Evans Welch

The Midnight Library; Matt Haig

The Spanish Love Deception; Elena Armas

Every Word You Never Said; Jordon Greene

When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall

The Gravity of Missing Things; Marisa Urgo

We Are The Ants; Shaun David Hutchinson

Iron Heart; Nina Varela

Coming up for Air; Nicole B. Ryndall

Unmasking Autism; Devon Price

Planting a Seed; Kate Gaertner

Period Power; Maisie Hill

Disibility Visibility; Alice Wong

Queerly Autistic; Erin Ekins

We're Not Broken; Eric Garcia

Divergent Mind; Jenara Nerenberg

Loveless; Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This; Alice Oseman

there is for sure some that i am missing so there will definitely be a part 2 to this at some point

[libraryleopard]

All the books I read in 2022, under the cut (* = reread)

January

Giant-Size X-Men by Jonathan Hickman et al

The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane

House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman et al*

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Once & Future vol. 1: The King is Undead by Kieron Gillen et al

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle*

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Heartstopper vol. 2 by Alice Oseman*

Heartstopper vol. 3 by Alice Oseman*

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram

Once and Future vol 2 by Kieron Gillen et al

Once and Future vol 3 by Kieron Gillen et al

Die vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

Moon Knight vol. 1: Lunatic by Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood

Die vol. 2: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

Die vol. 3: The Great Game by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

Excalibur vol. 3 by Tini Howard and Marcus To

Die vol. 4: Bleed by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

February

Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis

Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth

Something Is Killing the Children vol. 1 by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Not For Use in Navigation by Iona Datt Sharma

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

Sabrina and Corina by Kali Farjado-Anstine

It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

The Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

March 

Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

Some By Virtue Fall by Alexandra Rowland

The Sandman vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Druids: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe

April

Homesick by Nino Cipri

The Longest Night by E.E. Ottoman

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Hellions vol. 3 by Zeb Wells

S.W.O.R.D. vol 2 by Al Ewing

Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Tales of the Elders of Ireland translated by Ann Dooley

May

Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero edited by Anna F. Peppard

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho*

June

Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie

From Dust, A Flame by Rebecca Podos

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho

Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei

The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux

Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell

Messy Roots by Laura Gao

The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Vampires Never Get Old: New Tales With Fresh Bite edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derick

The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke

Abbott vol. 1 by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä

Abbott vol. 2 by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä

Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

July

X-Men vol. 1 by Gerry Duggan

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

Lost and Found Kathryn Schulz

X-Men: Season One by Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu

Harleen by Stjepan Šejić

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

Marvel’s Voices: Pride (2022)

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud*

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Lockwood*

The Department of Truth vol. 1: The End of the World by James Tynion and Martin Simmonds

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Excalibur vol. 1: The Sword is Drawn by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis

The Memory Librarian and Other Stories by Janelle Monáe and others

Excalibur vol. 2: Two-Edged Sword by Chris Claremont and Alan Davus

Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper

X-Men Hellfire Gala bind-up by various authors

X-Men: Magneto Testament by Greg Pak and Carmine di Giandomenico

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass

Black Bolt vol. 1: Hard Time by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward

Black Bolt vol. 2 by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward

The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud*

Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

August

The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud*

The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

Sandman vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman and others

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert

Sandman vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman and various

King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens

By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery

Sandman vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman and various

Ireland in the Medieval World AD 400-1000: Landscape, kingship, and religion by Edel Bhreathnach

Sandman vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman and others

The Many Death of Laila Starr by Ram V and Felipe Amdrade

Sandman vol. 8: Worlds’ End by Neil Gaiman and various

Sandman vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman and various

Sandman vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman and various

The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan

Hellblazer vol. 3: The Fear Machine by Jamie Delano

Something is Killing the Children vol. 1 by James Tynion Iv, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel Muerto

Something is Killing the Children vol. 2 by James Tynion Iv, Werther Dell’Edera, 

Black Spring by Alison Croggon

September

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri

Spear by Nicola Griffith

Piranesi by Susanna Clark

October

Bach in the Barn by Leigh Ellis

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Hellblazer vol. 4: The Family Man by Jamie Delano and others

John Constantine, Hellblazer: All His Engines by John Carey and Leonardo Manco

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Hellblazer vol. 5: Dangerous Habits by Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis and others

The Táin translated by Thomas Kinsella*

Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott

Hellblazer vol. 6: Bloodlines by Garth Ennis and others

Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

November

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Wild, Again by Bertha Rogers

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

Hellblazer vol. 7: Tainted Love by Garth Ennis and others

The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho

A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans

Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola

Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney

Hellblazer vol. 8: Rake at the Gates of Hell by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, and others

December

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios

The Hurting King by Ada Limón

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Sword Stone Table edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis

R E D by Chase Berggrun

Truth Be Cold by Alexa Barstow

Ravage the Dark by Tara Sim

[ameliaiv]

Gary A. Lippincott (1953-)

Victorian Fairy Tarot: Ten of Summer & Nine of Spring 

Sources/Fuentes: http://tarot.vn/la-ten-of-summer-victorian-fairy-tarot/

http://www.looktarot.com/tarot_result.php?id=498

[curlyhairedbibliophile]

Five Feet Apart Dir. Justin Baldoni, 2019

[artsytoad]

Gary Lippincott, from Troll Bridge (novel by Neil Gaiman)

“Trolls can smell the rainbows, trolls can smell the stars. Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed, before you were ever born.” ~Neil Gaiman, Troll Bridge

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[comparativetarot]

The Hanging Fairy. Art by Gary A. Lippincott, from The Victorian Faery Tarot.

[lookcaitlin]

[decemberwind]

[Trích dẫn đêm khuya] THỜI GIAN CỦA THỜI GIAN

Con ngài chỉ sống đúng trong một ngày, nhưng bạn chẳng bao giờ thấy chúng khuỵa ngã xuống đất và nguyền rủa sự sống của chính mình. Những bông hoa chẳng bao giờ khóc than khi mùa đông ập đến. Mặt trăng chăng bao giờ thở dài mỗi lúc bình minh lên.

Chúng ta được ban tặng chỉ từng ấy thời gian, và đó luôn luôn là chỗ thời gian vừa đủ để sống.

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Nếu chiến thắng là gượng dậy thêm một lần sau khi ngã xuống. Nếu sức mạnh không chỉ nằm ở những thớ cơ. Nếu thời gian dạy ta biết đợi chờ. Và tri thức cho ta sự duyên dáng.

Ta tiến về phía trước mang theo cả dấu ấn thời gian, những điều gì đã xảy ra trong quá khứ. Nhưng ta chẳng bao giờ mong nắm giữ những chuyện đã qua đi.

Bởi có bao điều đáng để ta mong chờ trước mặt.

- Iain S. Thomas -

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Ảnh: The Wheel of Time - Victorian Fairy #Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone, Gary A. Lippincott

[manfrommars2049]

Gary Lippincott: There and Back Again via oldschoolfantasy

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The Victorian Fairy Tarot

Art by Gary Lippincott

[rptv-starwars]

Charles Lippincott - Star Wars‘ unsung hero

- Back in 1976, George Lucas was hard at work on a masterpiece. But without a brilliant publicist like Charles Lippincott, few people would have gone to see it.

That sounds like an overstatement; I don't think it is.

Mark Hamill once said in an interview (on VH1 "When Star Wars Ruled the World") that when they showed the trailer in theaters, an obnoxious man in the audience yelled that it would end up on late night televsion 2 months later.

Star Wars Episode IV (later named "A New Hope") is considered the first blockbuster that was strategically planned (i.e. not organic), and it was due primarily the hard work of one man: Charles Lippincott.

[And not just Star Wars: he practically revolutionized the way movies were promototed, and all others have followed suit ever since.]

Why did countless people line up to see Star Wars in 1977 the day it came out? There was no internet and TV advertising was expensive. George Lucas was not yet a multi-billionaire and he didn't have the clout he has now (Fox almost pulled the plug on his movie as they were wrapping up the final scenes; 20th Century Fox executive Alan Ladd Jr. [who star wars fans owe a debt of gratitude], was able to temporarily keep the pressure off Lucas from the other Fox executives until the film wrapped up).

Lippincott is the reason why Star Wars found its audience, who in turn made it a massive hit.

Lippincott hit the road and promoted the movie where it mattered: conventions. Lippincott got the hardcore science fiction and fantasy (SFF) fanbase totally invested in seeing Star Wars. This was probably his most important contribution; had he not done this, Star Wars might not have succeeded.

There were three conventions essential in Lippincott’s plan on getting the word out to existing SFF fans: Westercon in July 1976 in Los Angeles, San Diego Comic-Con that same month, and most boldly, Worldcon (better known as MidAmeriCon, held in Kansas City, MO), in September of 1976.

San Diego Comic-Con was a relativley young convention (still in its first decade).  Famous Guests that year included Sergio Aragonés (from MAD Magazine), Mel Blanc (the famous voice actor), and Joe Shuster (of Superman fame) – but they also got a panel with Marvel writer Roy Thomas and artist Howard Chaykin, showing a preview of an upcoming release known as "Star Wars".  Nearly a year before the film’s release, Lippincott made the then-unconventional decision to present a 35mm slide show of stills from the film, and also provided slick black and white posters that said, “Star Wars: Coming to Your Galaxy This Summer.”

He also provided another poster at the panel, with artwork by Chaykin (which is now a highly sought after collectors item worth thousands of dollars), and can be found below on my tumblr blog:

https://rptv-starwars.tumblr.com/post/616355444997455872/star-wars-episode-iv-first-promotional-poster-by

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It's not an exaggeration to say that every subsequent blockbuster film that has found success promoting itself to thousands of fans in "Hall H" (the 65,000 square foot room at Comic-Con [now considered "the Convention of all Conventions,”] and called "the most important room in Hollywood" by the Los Angeles Times) owes a debt to Lippincott.

WorldCon in Kansas city received a larger panel which also featured Producer Gary Kurtz and a little-known actor named Mark Hamill. The panel not only presented an expanded slide show, but discussed the entire plot of the film and featured an audience Q-and-A. Lippincott also manned the film’s display space that weekend (featuring costumes, posters, and buttons) which became so popular after the panel that he ran out of the promotional material by the second day.

In addition, Lippincott ran promotions for the movie on college radio stations

He also secured merchandise tie-ins with Marvel Comics, Kenner Toys, and others, establishing Star Wars as a cross-platform media giant. His creative promoting kept the intellectual property in the public eye and helped satisfy ravenous public demand, catapulting Lucasfilm toward the type of success necessary to create and finance its sequels (before the success of Star Wars [A New Hope], George Lucas apparently didn't think he would be making another Star Wars movie).

For those of us who played with Star Wars toys or read the early comics, we have Lippincott to thank.  And Star Wars is still a franchise merchandising powerhouse to this day.

Like most "behind the scenes" types (who do all the work but get no glory), many people have not heard of Charles Lippincott. Shamefully, I myself had never even heard of him until a few days ago (despite being a Star Wars fan since 1977). So that is why I'm writing this; to make up for this unsung hero of Star Wars.

Lippincott passed away in Vermont on May 19, 2020 at the age of 80 following a brief hospital stay after a heart attack.

Thank you sir for all of your hard work. Not only did you make Star Wars profitable; you helped make many children happy (especially Gen X kids like myself). Rest in Peace.

_____________________________ Some of the information above was taken from various sources including Good Morning America, Krypton Radio, and Den of Geek.

_____________________________ Fun fact: When Lippincott first approached Stan Lee at Marvel Comics to produce a 6-issue Star Wars adaptation, Lee initially refused. He later agreed to the deal, and the comic run quickly sold out.

One more fun fact: Lippincott, Like George Lucas, attended USC.  [And they didn't have to buy their way in, either.]

Lippincott helping Darth Vader make is cement footprint at Grauman’s (later Man’s) Chinese Theater in Hollywood, August 03, 1977.

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Charles Lippincott and Mark Hamill at a Star Wars press tour in Japan.