“Night Startled by the Lark” (1820) by William Blake
The other day, I got in touch with The Blake Society (www.blakesociety.org) hoping to bring their attention to The Poet and the Flea and to ask them about next year’s Blake Society Tithe Grant.
To my surprise and delight, The Blake Society had already heard of my graphic novel and had made an announcement on their December newsletter as well as their Facebook page.
I think it’s really wonderful that The Blake Society seems to keep tabs on as many Blake-related projects as possible. They have a great website with many resources, including a full biography of William Blake and links to other useful sites.
If only I were in London, I would have joined this society long ago. But San Francisco is so far away and I’m unaware of any local societies here (although according to The Blake Society, there was a William Blake society in Palo Alto around 1940 
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Excerpt from The Blake Society December newsletter:
BLAKE IN THE WORLD OF GRAPHIC NOVELS
A new graphic novel is being published in installments on the web. The Poet and the Flea is written and illustrated by G. E. Gallas and a new page appears every Wednesday. Gallas is inspired by Blake as ‘the junction between Dante Alighieri and Allen Ginsberg’.
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Excerpt from The Black Society on Facebook:
The Poet and the Flea is a new online graphic novel by G. E. Gallas which re-imagines the life of Blake. A new page is added every Wednesday; today we reach page 7, when William tells Kate about seeing a tree full of angels.
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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Just wanted to organize some images that have inspired/continue to inspire me of late.
Images in chronological order.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these images!!
(Click on images to enlarge.)
“Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell” (1827) by William Blake
“Symphony in White no 1″ (1862) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1887) by John Singer Sargent
“Landscape with Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel”
(1893) by Maurice Denis
Actress Barbara Stanwyck (1940s)
Japanese author Dazai Osamu (1940s)
“Mahoning” (1956) by Franz Klein
“Tet” (1958) by Morris Louis
Poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958)
From Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magician” (1958) starring Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin
Actress Sarah Miles in “Vogue” (1964).
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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