First, Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there, young and old! Second, I owe a lot of people e-mail responses, phone calls, and thank you notes. By contrast, I’ve been unable to reach a few people—voice mail, full inboxes, and the like, and for those people, I will try again later. Mom included. (She must be working today on Mother’s Day. Employers not cool!) Third and final, some covers: For the following, Frauke Spanuth of Croco Designs worked on…
Still waiting on blurb copy for the two print covers I mentioned last time—they appear to be very busy at headquarters. In the meantime, there are these: The following cover was originally done by Laura Givens. I did only the spine and back to match: Front cover illustration and design by Laura Givens. Spine and back design by me. The following illustration is for a short story by Michael Turner, titled “Job Security”—to be published in Tales of the Talisman….
Years and years ago when I was young, incredibly stupid, and eager for work, I received an e-mail from someone who had a “possible design job” for me. He was a photographer who was interested in having a web site, an online gallery that would showcase his work. As I had at the time never been paid to do web design before, it sounded like a great opportunity for me. Numerous e-mails ensued. Mine asked a lot of questions about…
The first two covers have been dubbed as part of a classics collection, so I created a frame as required. I also redid the first of those, Ice Man. Tales of Enchantment, however, uses art by Christine Clavel; I did the lettering. The third is my usual work, and the rest, which are print covers, are a rehashing of my old work—redone slightly because the set of fonts I use for print are a bit different from that which I…
There’s actually one more cover and several ads for both print and web, but I wanted to keep it to a nice even six on the blog today. Share this post: