Yesterday, while taking a break from writing, I was browsing the Facebook updates and I stumbled on an image that I remembered from my high school days.
This one.
It is an illustration for Poul Anderson’s story Tiger by the Tail, part of the Dominic Flandry series.
It’s been thirty-five years, yet I still remember when I first saw it, and I still get the same feeling, the same thought…
I must write something like this one day or another.
The artist is the multi-award winner Michael Whelan, and I’m surprised and pleased at the number of my favorite books he illustrated. Here’s a small gallery of my favorite paintings by him.
27 August 2017 at 05:52
I have to credit Whelan with introducing me to a bunch of authors I hadn’t read before in the 80s — Julian May, Celia S Friedman, CJ Cherryh, and my original set of Elric books had his covers. There was a time when I looked for that M-rune and if I found it, chances were I’d buy the book. 🙂
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27 August 2017 at 20:03
Same here.
They say you can’t judge a book by the cover.
They lie.
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27 August 2017 at 10:14
This is my type of artwork. Reminds me of aborts Vallejo’s works a bit.
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27 August 2017 at 20:04
Boris Vallejo is another favorite of mine from back when I was in high school.
Pity he stopped doing covers and focused on mythology-themed calendars.
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28 August 2017 at 05:09
More money in calendars probably?
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28 August 2017 at 09:30
More money, less stress, softer deadlines.
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