Book Cover Illustrations

In keeping with the holiday season, I’m offering a free download of the newly illustrated Edgar Allan Poe classic, “The Raven” (which illustrated and laid out this last week). Careful, the virtual ink’s still wet. Please note that in addition to the new illustrations, I also created a new typeface for this publication as well […]

Even though this is a blog about book cover illustration, the ebook seems to be taking the publishing world by storm (at least in talk if not in sales) and thus it seems appropriate to express my own personal experience with these devices. Recently the ebook reader market has heated up, with at least three […]

I was rather startled to see the news about the possibly tragic story about a small boy in Colorado thought to be in a balloon. Hopefully he will be found alive, but it looks like he might have fallen to earth from some height. It is so easy to be detached these days. Yet this […]

I can remember as a kid pouring for what seemed hours (and possibly was for hours) over the cover illustration from a science fiction pulp magazine. I am uncertain now what magazine it was – it had a monstrous cat-like creature, and 1950s-style spaceship, and men in tight silver suits with a moonscape. And for […]