IN DAI CHIKIZA (1988)Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 18" x 46"
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IN DAI CHIKIZA (1988)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 18" x 46"Creating the cover for the first book in a proposed epic trilogy can be a daunting task for an illustrator. They have to help the author gain an audience for a new fantasy world with a whole new cast of characters. 1/8
#fantasy #illustration #tadwilliams #memorysorrowandthorn #dawbooks
@MichaelWhelan oh I remember this cover! It actually made me buy the book đ
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No matter how intriguing, when a manuscript is especially long and complicated it's hard to choose one scene that will be faithful to the story and grab new readers. 2/8
Tad Williamsâ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy went on to become both a commercial success, with a long stretch on the New York Times bestseller list, and a critical hit with lasting impact on the genre.
George R.R. Martin cited the books as influential in his own smash hit A Song of Ice and Fire. He praised Tadâs work as âone of the great fantasy epics of all time.â 3/8
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Tad Williamsâ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy went on to become both a commercial success, with a long stretch on the New York Times bestseller list, and a critical hit with lasting impact on the genre.
George R.R. Martin cited the books as influential in his own smash hit A Song of Ice and Fire. He praised Tadâs work as âone of the great fantasy epics of all time.â 3/8
The jacket art for the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn features Jingizu (the Sithi word for âSorrowâ). It was a blade forged by the Storm King. 4/8
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The jacket art for the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn features Jingizu (the Sithi word for âSorrowâ). It was a blade forged by the Storm King. 4/8
It was a blade forged by the Storm King. Inspiration for the design came in these ominously detailed passages:
ââŚin a sheath at [King Eliasâ] side was the sword with the strange crossed hiltâŚthere was something queer and unsettling about the bladeâŚ[It] had a strange double guard, the cross pieces making; with the hilt, a sort of five pointed star.â 5/8
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It was a blade forged by the Storm King. Inspiration for the design came in these ominously detailed passages:
ââŚin a sheath at [King Eliasâ] side was the sword with the strange crossed hiltâŚthere was something queer and unsettling about the bladeâŚ[It] had a strange double guard, the cross pieces making; with the hilt, a sort of five pointed star.â 5/8
ââŚ[the blade] was no mere weapon, but a blasphemy against the earth that had yielded both iron and witchwood. It was a hole in the tapestry of creation, and life leaked away through it.â 6/8
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ââŚ[the blade] was no mere weapon, but a blasphemy against the earth that had yielded both iron and witchwood. It was a hole in the tapestry of creation, and life leaked away through it.â 6/8
When Tad returned to the kingdom of Osten Ard for a new story arc a few decades later, DAW Books asked me to provide illustrations of the swords that had decorated the spines of the original hardcovers. This time they would be placed front and center on the reissued covers. 7/8
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The jacket art for the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn features Jingizu (the Sithi word for âSorrowâ). It was a blade forged by the Storm King. 4/8
@MichaelWhelan Oh my gosh I love seeing this separate layer of detail, isolated like this.
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When Tad returned to the kingdom of Osten Ard for a new story arc a few decades later, DAW Books asked me to provide illustrations of the swords that had decorated the spines of the original hardcovers. This time they would be placed front and center on the reissued covers. 7/8
The order of the swords was corrected to reflect the name of the series, the first being Minneyar, which translates to âyear of memory.â I canât say much more than that as spoilers aboundâeven decades later for some fans! 8/8
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When Tad returned to the kingdom of Osten Ard for a new story arc a few decades later, DAW Books asked me to provide illustrations of the swords that had decorated the spines of the original hardcovers. This time they would be placed front and center on the reissued covers. 7/8
@MichaelWhelan i tend to prefer this *kind* of cover. maybe because i'm british? i noticed years ago (don't know if still true) that british SF/F covers tended to be more symbolic or metaphorical and american ones were like a still from the nonexistent movie version. don't know if that reflected a geographical cultural difference, or if it still exists?
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The order of the swords was corrected to reflect the name of the series, the first being Minneyar, which translates to âyear of memory.â I canât say much more than that as spoilers aboundâeven decades later for some fans! 8/8
@MichaelWhelan One of the things I love about these descriptions of your cover art is that you've clearly read and enjoyed the works in question, and picked up on all the textual details.
There are some pieces of cover art where the artist has clearly only read the blurb for the book, or skimmed the text lightly, and missed important things.
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@zwol I wrote a book in Docbook (SGML first, and then converted to XML later) about 25ish years ago, with a custom vim configuration. It wasn't pleasant. Yes, the tools were bad, but also it's just really sort of tiring looking at all the tags and the processing toolchain was dire.
I was using a LaTeX-based toolchain for the PDF generation, I don't remember details, but Sebastian Rahtz was super helpful when I ran into mysterious issues.
I wouldn't do it again. Different time, different me.
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@jannem Yeah, like, considered as a thing-in-itself apart from the tools, the major complaint I have about DocBook is that the documentation of _how to write a book using DocBook_ is inadequate.
Many people have very similar complaints about LaTeX.
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@Esoteria you might be a little too young for this classic scene from "WKRP in Cincinnati".
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@molly0xfff At first I thought it was about wikipedia socks, the puppet kind... lol
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seriously, I blew this entire afternoon trying to pin down an xmllint error whose cause turned out to have absolutely nothing to do with the error messages it was giving me.
(Actual error: multiple elements with the same xml:id. Error message: "<chapter> not expected as child of <book>" or words to that effect.)
(Giving sensible error messages for multiply defined symbols is a compilers 101 exercise!)
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@zwol
I used LaTeX throughout university. I never found XML significantly more cumbersome.
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Current project number, um, 8? involves DocBook. Never had to do that before. Am now wondering just how much of the hate for XML, that I remember from the early 2010s, is down to the incredible shittiness of the tools for working with XML.
