tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44458476166729671142024-02-08T00:49:24.845-05:00evan jensen's artworkingIllustration, Art, Printmaking - by Evan M. Jensen. Occasional confused whistles, hat pins, and spiced chai.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-24143878082089775932013-05-21T17:22:00.001-04:002015-05-28T12:03:00.803-04:00Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2<div dir="ltr">
There is just too much greatness emblazoned by the SFAL mark. This was <a href="http://www.magneticcrow.com/">Li's</a> and my first time attending, and after hearing such praise last year, I have to conclude it only got better. </div>
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Thank you so much to every blasted person who came down to Kansas City for the weekend to support the Fantastic Art community. It was amazing to meet all you fine internet people, and even if we didn't meet everyone, the overall vibe was so positive that we can't help but feel welcomed by even the farthest strangers there. Thanks for 20 years of great work, Arnie and Cathy Fenner. I hope the next 20 exceed these last.</div>
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Getting to see friends and meet people whose work I admire just makes me want to forgo sleep and draw. Our booth was tucked away but we got to talk to some great folks as they wandered by. </div>
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Awesome time. Be back next year. With europop electro and a dance off. And also some new art!</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-27142975843231385732013-05-03T10:38:00.001-04:002013-05-03T10:38:44.301-04:00Magical shipment arrived!Got a great stack of 250 of these beasties. If you want one, come to Booth 521 at S<a href="http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/" target="_blank">pectrum Fantastic Art Live!</a> Sometime on or after May 17, I mean. Before that, no one will be there. Or it'll be a peanut butter convention or somethin'.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-27722443549681799112013-04-22T11:35:00.002-04:002013-04-22T11:35:27.721-04:00Spectrum Fantastic Art Live will Contain 100% more Evan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Since I've been plugging it on <a href="http://facebook.com/evanmjensen" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/eimhinart" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, I forgot to post some'at here! But yes, as mentioned above, there will be a me spot at SFAL, May 17-19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Excitement! Art! Colorful monsters! </div>
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<br />Come see me, <a href="http://www.magneticcrow.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Grabenstetter</a>, and <a href="http://www.galendara.com/" target="_blank">Galen Dara</a> as we share booth #521 and gawk at all the amazing art in the room. We don't bite, but we might blink a few times.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-91639412425388721072012-12-20T10:51:00.000-05:002012-12-20T10:58:17.867-05:00Bunzum's Ex Libris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently, I was commissioned to do a bookplate for a 3-year-old who loves to tell stories. Something which could serve in the coming years as she grew up and read more books. The parents wanted something including her favorite plushies and the stories she tells about their ongoing "battle" for the basement. 'Cause children always have armies of mice & bats led by rats & rabbits, right? It's such a fun idea, I wanted to do something using household goods as materiel, but that was getting really complicated for a 3x4-inch block... So I got to come up with some cozy images of the protagonists reading together up during a lull in the fight.<br />
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The alphabet behind them is a nod to this <i>excellent</i> <a href="http://www.kentandlondon.co.uk/chestofdrawers/product_03/product_info.php" target="_blank">dresser</a> the kid uses, composed entirely of drawers shaped like giant wood type. <br />
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After a serious, all-day printing session, the bookplates are drying prior to posting off to their anxious patrons. Some photos of the print session. : )<br />
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Now, I hope I have time to make our holiday candy... luckily Lisa wrapped all our presents this year. Off to do all the (remaining) things! </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-82107023256353345072012-12-05T13:47:00.000-05:002012-12-05T13:49:40.141-05:00Some Bookplates I'd NeglectedSomehow, these two bookplates slipped through and didn't get shared (except with their commissioner, of course). He asked that I kindly wait until after his friend's birthday, but then I plum forgot... for almost 2 years.<br />
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Here's a matched pair of bookplates for a client in Australia (other-side-of-the-globe art) from 2011. The theme was SF/F. The blank spaces in each were to be filled by the client's and his friend's names. I carved them rubber stamps for the purpose.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-34991046330412095902012-10-12T13:50:00.000-04:002012-10-12T13:51:30.760-04:00Nautilii Herds for Fun and Profit?At the request of <a href="http://www.magneticcrow.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Grabenstetter</a>, I drew some Fiji mercreatures herding (or hunting?) some giant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus" target="_blank">nautilii</a>. Because you do. I'll take any excuse to play around more with my new Pentel Aquash <a href="http://www.pentel.com/store/aquash-brush" target="_blank">brushpen</a>. It's one of my favorite tools, now. Great variety of line, and always carrying a color wash! (these are walnut ink, undiluted in the resevoir)<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-83272481696302452022012-09-06T14:36:00.004-04:002012-09-06T14:38:04.832-04:00Sketch Spillover<br />
I've been kinda slumping this year on bigger projects, so here's a sketch dump. Not sure what of these I've posted before, if any, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself. <br />
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Again, I didn't make it to Dragon*Con, but <a href="http://magneticcrow.com/" target="_blank">Lisa</a>, <a href="http://www.galendara.com/" target="_blank">Galen</a> & I look like we'll be sharing a table at next year's <a href="https://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/?page=sfal_home" target="_blank">Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!</a> in Kansas City. That's <i>really </i><i>exciting!</i> We might do <a href="http://illuxcon.com/" target="_blank">IlluxCon</a> this fall, too. Who knows! Everything's tangential and up for grabs!<br />
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In current work, I just did this quick t-shirt design for a corporate event at the Downtown Houston, Texas aquarium. The back of the light grey shirts simply reads "Volunteer" with a little water droplet. I hope it screens alright... I'll see when I get my shirt in the mail, I guess.<br />
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Otherwise, dayjob eats my lithesome calm, encouraging me through helpless rage to <i>"move West, young man!"</i> Which is the current Above All Else Goal.</div>
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They now have not only their iPad app, but <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flyingbooks-kids-books/id466277060?mt=8" target="_blank">a version for iPhone/Pod</a> as well! More people can see the books, which is always awesome.<br />
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Follow to my guest post: <a href="http://www.inkpunks.com/2012/05/09/guest-post-workspace-by-evan-jensen/#content" target="_blank">Don't Lock Yourself in a Dungeon to Work</a> (or, Creating a Workspace).<br />
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Also, check out <a href="http://www.magneticcrow.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Grabenstetter</a>'s recent guest post on <a href="http://www.inkpunks.com/2012/04/20/guest-post-what-not-to-do-with-your-website-by-lisa-grabbenstetter/" target="_blank">website avoidances for artists</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-76391159253998815182012-04-07T11:51:00.000-04:002012-04-07T11:51:00.535-04:0012 Days of a Winter HolidayYou believe I'm a professional? Ha! Look at how long it took me to just slip some of these up on the blog, when the book's been published since December? Yeah, Procrastination and I, we're chums. <.<<br />
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Some samples from my slightly askew version of <i>The 12 Days of Christmas</i>, which was published over the 2011 holidays by <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/flyingbooks-ltd/id466277063" target="_blank">Flying Books, LTD</a> (iPad App Store link). They let me play with the story as I wished! That's just AMAZING. It could have gone bad, Space Opera Christmas bad. But ended up setting it in a tiny urban apartment and a more modern time, rather that the usual Edwardian-maybe-18th-century-maybe-earlier-England look. The text has little quips poking at the absurdity and inconvenience of the whole gift exchange in the song.<br />
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It was a spectacular experience all around, working with Hana, my contact point on this. I'm looking forward to doing some more books with them when the chance arises. Maybe even something... <i>I</i>... might write? Chances of that = chances of me running across Nebraska in my knickers... not impossible, see.<br />
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The book can be had through Flying Books' App linked earlier (sadly for me, I dunna even own one).<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-5188919618692106952012-04-04T11:54:00.000-04:002012-04-04T12:10:48.655-04:00Whistling Teeth in a Storm<div style="text-align: left;">
While I was waiting for the train to deliver <a href="http://magneticcrow.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Lisa</a>, I ended up sketching two images based on random people in the parking lot, in two very different styles. One seems to be a nod to <a href="http://ericorchard.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Eric Orchard's</a> work.</div>
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Horror movies and reasons to look sad on the Metro, we are GO.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-7391908779747381302012-02-17T11:48:00.001-05:002012-02-17T11:48:39.651-05:00Happy Belated New Year & Near-end of Meteorological Winter<div style="text-align: center;">
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Enjoy a hedgehog on ukelele with a wyvern.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-49449231677933399042012-02-10T13:57:00.001-05:002012-02-10T14:05:46.422-05:00Prodding at the DigitalsPoked a little more at the digital painting. I now feel like I want to <i>keep painting</i>, which is a big step for me. Any time I was using a tablet before, I felt like I was trying to shape antithetical butter. You know, not soft at all. Contrary, even. This isn't even Cintiq-centric. I did most of the further work on the Intuos.<br />
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On a side note, if you like hedgehogs or newsletters, there's gonna be an interview/article thing about me & my hedgie adventurer paintings in the March/April e-newsletter from the <a href="http://www.hedgehogwelfare.org/" target="_blank">Hedgehog Welfare Society</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-31285563014370231492012-01-27T12:20:00.000-05:002012-01-27T12:20:57.189-05:00Trying out a CintiqI haven't had <strike>much</strike> any opportunity to try the Cintiqs, so I just snatched the one left behind by a departing graphic designer this morning. 21UX, for the tech minded, and it's BULKY. Huge thing, but got it connected and doodled a little to get the feel.<br />
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Gotta say, I do like it a lot, even if it's weird to use Photoshop as yet.<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-10454447851129420262012-01-24T15:35:00.001-05:002012-01-24T15:35:42.600-05:0012 Days of Christmas Out on iPad!So the fun of the holidays (and the likewise chaotic evil scheduling) have finally let go over the past few weeks, and I can make the awesome that I've got my first tablet-based book out! It's only on the iPad at the moment, but maybe one day the publisher will release for Android, too?<br />
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The app (and publisher) is <a href="http://www.flyingbooks.co/" target="_blank">FlyingBooks</a>, and if you download the app (free), you can buy whatever books catch your fancy (not free). They're a children's e-book publisher, and they have some really nice books available.<br />
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Back in December, I super-rush adapted <i>The 12 Days of Christmas</i> for them, from a modern standpoint, in a small, urban apartment. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eebooreader/id466277060?ls=1&mt=8">Go see! <i>12 Days of Christmas</i>!</a> You've seen the chickens and the sneak peeks, and the whole book is definitely available. : )<br />
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If you're like me, and don't have an iPad, we can mope sadly together, with bedraggled pigeons.<br />
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I got a chance to see the <i>12 Days</i> on a friend's iPad, and it looks so goooood. Really happy with how it transferred from traditional media to digital display.<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-55967093079924978402011-12-21T14:09:00.000-05:002011-12-21T14:40:00.231-05:00How to travel in the finest Imperial fashion<span style="text-align: left;">Well... I found some sketches! How did I never post these? </span><span style="text-align: left;">I think this was intended to be an <a href="http://theartorder.com/" target="_blank">ArtOrder</a> Challenge submission, but I never got around to finishing it. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Anyway, here you go!</span>
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The fun part of finding stuff sitting in your sketchbook is realizing that I still want to make these into a painting. I mean, BIOMECHANICAL FISH BIKE; what's not awesome about that?<br />
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I'm talking about those seizure-inducing light displays that are put up by certain tasteless neighbors. Who clearly have something against neural function; or maybe they only hate the idea of a warm white glow.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Some of those ever-present French hens that you see promenading along the quay this time of year. <br />Peek in at the book I'm engaged in right now.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-10486032755331570842011-08-23T12:49:00.001-04:002011-08-23T13:07:44.447-04:00The Nixies of Spa CreekA quick doodle done the other day in my big moleskin, while waiting on the IT folks to install Snow Leopard on my work box.<br />
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I love the creepy, duckweed-trailing river faeries of myth vastly more than the singing, sunbathing merfolk of most people's imaginations. Jenny Greenteeth for the win.<br />
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Based the setting on the grass-choked estuary near our house. There are nutria there, we discovered.<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-25497712423382778212011-08-18T12:42:00.001-04:002011-08-18T12:43:09.911-04:00The other day I got <i>Awesome News</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(TM)</span>:<br />
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<u>Broken Time Blues</u> has officially launched! The great, great anthology of set-in-the-Prohibition Era SF/F stories. This is full of superb authors & will be available in ebook formats soon, but is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">now</span></b> available as a <a href="http://amzn.to/n1bPK9">print edition on Amazon</a>. If you're one of the lucky folks to be at <a href="http://www.renovationsf.org/">WorldCon</a> in Reno this week, the official launch party is @ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2pm on Saturday, August 20th.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Sharing</strong> by James L. Sutter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Chickadee</strong> by Frank Ard<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Semele’s Daughter</strong> by John Nakamura Remy<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Automatic City</strong> By Morgan Dempsey<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Button Up Your Overcoat</strong> by Barbara Krasnoff<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Nor the Moonlight</strong> by Andrew Penn Romine<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Jack and the Wise Birds</strong> by Lucia Starkey<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Madonna and Child, In Jade</strong> by Amanda C. Davis<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Der Graue Engel</strong> by Jack Graham<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Purloined Ledger</strong> by Ari Marmell<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Fight Night</strong> by Ryan McFadden<br />
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">A Drink for Teddy Ford</strong> by Robert Jackson Bennett</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The cover by Galen Dara is pret-ty snazzy; your bookshelf with undoubtedly seem bare and backwoods without it. Don't be that dude.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-36748059419531549682011-07-27T11:41:00.001-04:002011-07-27T11:44:15.704-04:00Cover Sketches for Fantastique Unfettered 3Back in April I finally finished the cover for Issue Three (Prolefeed) of <a href="http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com/">Fantastique Unfettered</a>, an excellent print magazine of SF&F stories. It was an awesome project, and I did a bunch of sketches before the editor finally settled on one for on the cover. Brandon is a great editor to work with, too; he had some neat ideas and is real easy going.<br />
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These sketches I did that weren't chosen... I still like a lot of them. I'd love to pursue some as finished paintings, even though they won't be printed in the magazine.<br />
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The final cover is a few posts down on the Fantastique Unfettered site. The issue should come out on or around August 31st! What a neat birthday present!<div class="blogger-post-footer">// Clandestine hits of illustration a la carte.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05618062431476386822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445847616672967114.post-86447121881561322522011-07-08T22:21:00.003-04:002011-07-08T22:24:44.956-04:00Broken Time Blues Announcement!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So <i><a href="http://absolute-x-press.com/broken-time-blues/">Broken Time Blues</a> </i>is officially slated to release at <a href="http://www.renovationsf.org/">Worldcon</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> (Renovation) in August! Awesome publishing of art and stories. The stories, they rock. As an illustrator thereof, I can safely say that. Also, I can safely say that the artwork is sub-par, rife with allusion of the roughest sort, and probably a mortal sin.</span><br />
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I heard tell it releases for sale August 1st, but if Worldcon is the release party of the year for EDGE Publishing & Absolute XPress... well, get it online before, or buy it there in person if you're so lucky as to be attending.<br />
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For listening to me ramble excitedly, here's a <strike>cookie</strike> quick peek:<br />
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Here are two of the first pictures I did for the book. You should all buy the book when it comes out and see which tales they're for. The book will be published by <a href="http://www.edgewebsite.com/">EDGE Publications</a> sometime later this year. More info to come as I have it!<br />
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