cover art and easy questions
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 May 1998
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William H. Ansley — 09 May 1998, 00:39

> > > I do have one question I'm hoping someone here can help me with:
> > > Does anyone know the artist who did the cover art for "The Book of the
> > > New Sun" tetralogy?

> > Mike,
> > 
> > Ooooh! An easy question! I'll answer it!
> > 
> > Don Maitz is the artist in question.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > William Ansley

> I agree that's probably the set Mike wants, but I should point out that
> there are others: I have an Arrow edition from around 1987 with
> (unexciting) covers by one Peter Andrew Jones. There was also an earlier
> edition (not sure if this was also by Arrow) with rather nice covers by
> (I think) Bruce Pennington.
> ...
> Matt Freestone

Aaaaarrrgh! I should have known! There are no easy questions involving
Wolfe. 8->

Thanks very much to Tony Ellis for putting up the Bruce Pennington cover
paintings. I like them better than the Maitz versions. They strike me as
"old fashioned" somehow. (This is not necessarily a bad thing.) Perhaps it
is because they are scans of worn covers, but I would have guessed that the
books were published at least 25 years ago, just judging from the cover
art. They remind me slightly of Gray Morrow's work, although I am not sure
this would hold up after a side-by-side comparison.

William Ansley

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