This character is Flay, assistant of Lord Sepulchrave, Earl of the castle Gormenghast. He’s described in the book as being somewhat vulture-like, and there’s a lot of description of his “slow march” walking–which is what I’ve tried to capture him doing here.<\/p>\n Next week: \u201cG\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n You can find all the AlphaBooks entries to-date at the AlphaBooks tumblr:\u00a0http:\/\/alphabooks.tumblr.com<\/a>. You can also follow many of the entries as they\u2019re posted in real-time by following the #AlphaBooks hashtag on Twitter<\/a> on Mondays.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s only by about a half an hour, but this unfortunately is my first genuinely late Alpha-illustration for any of the three Alphabet projects I’ve been involved with. Chalk it up to how amazingly busy this Heroes Con was! But, anyway…. F is for Flay – From the the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake I … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Flay.jpg\" "\\"Flay\\"")
<\/a>I have to admit, I didn’t make it all the way through Titus Groan<\/em>, the first novel of the Gormenghast<\/em> series. That’s largely my fault, not the book’s. I just wasn’t in the mood for a slow-moving gothic fantasy when I happened to pick up Titus Groan<\/em>. The two thirds or so of it that I did read, though, I found interesting enough to at least put on my “come back to” list.<\/p>\n