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  "thread": {
    "id": 1412,
    "subject": "_Peace_ cover art",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-03-03T22:15:16+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-03T22:15:16+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "danrabin at a.crl.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-03T22:15:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) _Peace_ cover art",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "William Ansley asks,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Who drew the cover art?\n\nThe back of the Orb edition says: Cover art by Gahan Wilson\nBut the copyright page says: Cover art by Tony Roberts"
        },
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          "text": "I don't know for sure, but when I first saw the cover, I said, \"Aha, Gahan\nWilson!\" and was surprised not to see it credited to him--his style is so\ndistinctive.\n\nI speculate that there may have been some contractual reason why Gahan\nWilson's art could not appear under his own name at the time the artwork\nwas originally used, probably on the Berkley paperback edition dated 1982\n(which edition bears no cover artwork credit that I can find).\n\nThe 1975 hardcover first US edition does not have the Wilsonic artwork.\nThe Orb edition seems to have been otherwise either photographically\nreproduced from the first edition or else printed from the same plates, as\nthe typography and pagination are identical.\n\nThe Berkley edition contains an additional scrap of artwork on the spine, a\nskeleton that is sitting on the \"P\" of \"PEACE\" with its back leaning\nagainst the right edge of the spine.  This skeleton is reused on the title\npage with its back leaning against the \"G\" of \"Gene\" (oooh, secret hidden\nmeanings!).  The occurrence on the title page has an additional component\nthat looks like a mandible placed below the pelvis of the skeleton.\n\nThe Berkley cover also has one bone and five other little marks outside the\nhatched area that is reproduced on the Orb cover.  These marks are directly\nbeneath the \"P\" of \"PEACE\".  The paperback also gives the letters of the\ntitle raised outlines.\n\nIt is possible that the Wilsonic artwork was introduced for some edition\nbetween 1975 and 1982, but the book doesn't seem to have been that popular.\n\n\nOr maybe the discrepancy is a subtle clue that Tom Doherty Associates is an\nunreliable narrator, and that \"Gene Wolfe\" is almost certainly a persona\nforged to avoid paying royalties to a real author (note that \"Peace by Gene\nWolfe\" is an anagram of \"Enfeeble copy wage\").\n\n  -- Dan Rabin"
        }
      ]
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