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Just a quick mid-week note:
I’ll be back posting daily starting Friday, but I had to let you know that Cayetano “Cat” Garza and I just finished up a cover art gig for our good friends at Blackcoat Press. If I may say so, it’s a pip, too!
We collaborated on the color cover art for the upcoming translation of the never-before-published-in-English 1910 French science-fiction novel, Panic in Paris.
Dinosaurs erupt from beneath the streets of Paris, two years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Lost World was published (ending with Professor Challenger and his expedition bringing pterodactyls to London for the final chapter) — meaning this is an essential new discovery and addition to the history of paleontological science fiction, and perhaps even the first full-blown entry in the venerable ‘monsters attack metropolis’ genre of giant monster fantasy.
Cat and I are happy to be part of this historic publication. Publisher Jean-Marc Lofficier seems pleased with our final illustration, for which I did my best to channel a bit of Reynold Brown (the artist responsible for many of the now-iconic 1950s and ’60s giant monster movie poster art) and Cat channeled a bit of Jack Kirby (using photocollage techniques for our Parisian backgrounds).
Curiously enough, while researching the subject, I discovered that Paris survived a terrible flood in 1910, the year Panic in Paris was originally published. Could it have been caused by — no, that’s impossible!
In the meantime, I’m working this week on a plethora of Vermonsters for Joe Citro’s and my current book project, The Vermont Monster Guide, for University Press of New England. Some choice art will be previewed here next week from that venture… among other… things.
YOW! What dinosaurs invaded? Just the ones on the cover? Did they end up on the collective French dinner table?
Bob, I’ll write more about PANIC IN PARIS in the coming month, and whet your appetite further — and of course, I can’t give away the ending. Mon dieu! What do you think I am?
For those who care, the latter enigmatic pingback post/link was from the Aussie blog SAVE YOUR BREATH FOR RUNNING PONIES, which is here: http://runningponies.com/2009/02/23/wise-up-mamenchisaurus
And highly entertaining it is, too.
gotta love those pingbacks LOL
Oh thanks for the recommendation!!