Independent publisher Beehive Books has announced The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works & Words of Herbert Corwley, an oversized biography collecting Crowley’s long-out-of-print artwork and cartoons.

Beehive Books has turned to Kickstarter to fund the project. The campaign is led by Locust Moon Books’ Josh O’Neill and author Justin Duerr. The project, which has raised more than $16,000 over its $50,000 goal with 15 days to go, has a retailer backer level.

Crowley was a cartoonist, painter, and sculptor who showed work in the early 20th Century alongside contemporaries like Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. His cartoons were printed in The New York Herald’s Sunday comics section opposite Windsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland.

In 1917, Crowley disappeared from the New York scene. Since, very little of his work has been reprinted, and it has not been exhibited for decades. Over years of research, Deurr unearthed hundreds of Crowley’s pieces and compiled a comprehensive biography of the artist.

Duerr turned to O’Neill to help translate the research into The Temple of Silence, a 100-page, 11” x 17 art book. The publisher anticipates November 2017 backer fulfillment and trade release via Diamond to follow. MSRP is expected to be $85.00.

O’Neill is no stranger to Kickstarter. Locust Moon Books used the platform for successful campaigns in support of the tribute anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (see “'Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream'”) and The Lost Works of Will Eisner, a collection of comics drawn during Eisner’s teen years (see “'The Lost Work of Will Eisner'”).