In Honor of The King of Horror

Today a new book is coming out by my favorite author. Those of you who know me also know that A) that author is Stephen King and B) that I will likely have the book in my hand by days end. In honor of the new novel, Duma Key, I thought I would show a piece of King inspired art which I created. I designed this poster in my Adobe Illustrator class last semester.

The assignment was to use Adobe Illustrator to create a poster of a fictional Halloween event (a haunted house or haunted graveyard). The event had to have a cooperate sponsor whose name and logo appeared on the poster . Also the poster had to include the important event information, date, place, cost, etc. From there it was up to us to come up with something that was believable, eye catching , and would make people want to come to our event.

Being a King fan my brain went straight to him and his work. After all any King fan knows a Pet Cemetery is much more frightening then your standard haunted graveyard. Mostly it gave me an opportunity to tip my hat to a man whose work I have enjoyed so much over the last 20 years.

For a number of reasons I did take a little liberty with the title, spelling cemetery as it appears in the dictionary instead of semetery as it appears in the title of Mr. Kings book. This was noticed first by one of my best friends. The poster was out in my living room because I wanted to show it to some friends who where coming over. Before I got a chance to do that I heard one of my friends asking my husband if he thought the person who created the poster had spelled cemetery with a "c" to avoid being sued. He didn't realize I had created it until I told him that I spelled cemetery with a "c" so my instructor wouldn't think I spelled it wrong. I was very pleased when he told me he thought it had been done by a professional. There is no better compliment that having some one think my class projects is the real thing.

Okay so here is the part where I do cover myself to avoid being sued, so pay attention. This poster was intended as a school project only, the event described on the poster is fiction. The poster was not endorsed by Mr. King or Scribner publishing.