See more ideas about my books, fantasy art and books. His awardwinning work has graced covers and pages from numerous comic book publishers including the books of magic, sandman and swamp thing from dc comics, as well as spiderman. Many of his stories take place in the newford universe. His works have received around 15 nominations for the world fantasy award, plus several nominations from the british fantasy society, nebula awards, bram stoker, and mythopoeic fantasy awards. It carries the feel and mechanics of his newford books, but places the story in the southwestand he does a great job of incorporating the people, the culture, and. It is the story of isabelle copley, a young artist who lives in the city of newford.
Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. It takes place in 1980s ottawa, where sara and jamie, owners of an antique store, discover ancient magic and. See more ideas about how to memorize things, fog photography and a monster calls. If book covers didnt matter, publishers wouldnt put out so many beautiful editions. Charles vess born june 10, 1951 is an american fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. I mentioned above see book covers that my early novels often had cover art that did not reflect the. Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where mystery walks in the moonlight.
Yet women and men should be equally attracted to reading this wonderful book. Its extremely rare for an author to have control over cover art or copy the words that appear on the jacket. The novel is about a number of murders that seems to involve the romany gypsies, thanks to the medieval catholic church, who were sure they came from egypt. His grandmother has trained him hard but inscrutably, and she approves of his dropping. Lillian lives with her aunt in the hills, a wild, gentle girl who puts out saucers of milk for stray cats and gives the gnarled old apple tree man a biscuit for breakfast every morning and whose greatest desire is to. Contentsshow artist list by book to see the book covers, go to the gallery section for the artist or each books page. Though some characters show up in one anothers tales, the books can be enjoyed independently. Samuel key signed and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A series of urban fantasymythic fiction books set in the fictional north american city of newford. You may have seen the many striking book covers graced by the work of john jude palencar as you walk down the fantasy aisles. Originally published in 1985, this is a 1995 darkside press edition in a limited run of 500.
We are grateful to charles vess for the use of his cover and interior illustrations. Memory and dream takes place before dreams underfoot. The double shadow has, hands down, one of the worst covers its been my misfortune to run across in yearsand trust me, i see some bad ones. Both books are published by little brown and illustrated by charles vess with cover design by saho fujii. List of newford artists this is a list of cover artists that contributed to the books cover and any interior art of the newford series. The book will leave you wanting to read more in longer presentation formats. Contentsshow description book 11 blurbthe onion girl 2001. Charles lives in ottawa, ontario with his wife and manager, maryann harris. Memory and dream chronicles her artistic journey from the early 1970s as a university student to the early 1990s as a professional artist. Each of the projected three volumes will feature various combinations of the seven redhaired dillard sisters from seven wild sisters as well as new characters introduced as the stories. A difference is that its a novel versus a collection of short stories. He looks like a 17yearold chinese american from chicago, but, like his grandmother, he is a yellow dragon, which is the image that covers his entire back and grows with him. He is married toand plays music withmaryann harris. His update of fantacy to urban fantacy is remarkable.
Then she can finally see the fairies that she was looking for. Decisions as to what will appear on the book cover are almost invariably made inhouse at the publisher, by. However, the beautiful cover, the title and the merry dancers have stayed with me, so a few years ago i was. Series isbncatalog id price pages format type cover artist verif. Primarily a writer of fantasy fiction, he has written widely in the subgenres of urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. If you wish to continue with short stories in this series, the ivory and the horn is the next short story collection. Newford is not a sequential serieseach novel or story stands alone as a complete tale. See the complete newford series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.
The cover art by david bergen was undeniably part of the enchantment. That said, the onion girl, spirits in the wires, and. A disappointing effort cobbled together from a number of mythologies and cultures, overlong and underimagined. His influences include british golden age book illustrator arthur rackham, czech art nouveau painter alphonse mucha, and comicstrip artist hal foster, among others. Cnns the van jones show covers better angels duration.