Kevin's Watch

According to SRD on the "gradual interview" at his official site the great Sci-Fi/Fantasy cover artist, Michael Whelan, will be doing the cover of Runes of the Earth! Whelan is my favorite artist in these genre known for a multitute of famous covers including Startide Rising and most David Brin covers as well as King's The Dark Tower series. To see samples of his work go to: www.michaelwhelan.com/

Cool!! I love whelan!

His DT artwork is still my favorite of them all...

Thanks Danlo! He is very very good!

Thanks for the link, danlo. I hadn't heard of him, and was gonna try to track him down. But I certainly know many of his covers!

A pity it's just a cover. I could imagine an illustrated hardcover with some Allan Lee-quality pics.

He has also done the covers for all of Melanie Rawn's books!

THIS IS SO COOL! I heard he wasn't doing book covers anymore. Now he's doing Runes?

SWEET!

Stephen R. Donaldson wrote:After the atrocities that Darrel K. Sweet perpetrated on the earlier "Covenant" books, I'm blissfully happy to be in Whelan's hands.

Heh, doesn't mince his words, does he?

No, he certainly doesn't.

In another thread, I told a story that Steve related to me at the last World Fantasy Con. He said that DelRey and Sweet got together for the cover art for The Wounded Land, and ended up drawing Covenant in a robe (which wasn't in the manuscript). DelRey had Steve rewrite the scene so that he's properly attired when the the Krill rises from the lake. One of the haruchai throws a robe over him just before that scene, and right after, he shrugs it off.

BTW - Whelan did the original cover art for Mordant's Need (which will shortly be posted on the official web site).

Romeo wrote:In another thread, I told a story that Steve related to me at the last World Fantasy Con. He said that DelRey and Sweet got together for the cover art for The Wounded Land, and ended up drawing Covenant in a robe (which wasn't in the manuscript). DelRey had Steve rewrite the scene so that he's properly attired when the the Krill rises from the lake. One of the haruchai throws a robe over him just before that scene, and right after, he shrugs it off.

That's just sick. Jeez. Lester Del Ray shoulda been ashamed of himself.

Michael Whelan's art is in a word stunning. I'm very happy to hear he is on board.

As to Darrel K. Sweet, I didn't think what he did was bad at all but then again I didn't have to work with the guy so what do I know.

Its all good news.

Same here. I like Sweet's work. He's definately a very talented artist. I guess the problem is crossing art, business, and politics.

Sweet's OK but look at TWL and especially WGW-Wielder is horrid, seriously horrid. I'm reading McKillup's Riddle-Master of Hed books and Sweet did those too--and they're cool-I guess he was the 'in-house" Del Rey artist for a long time. Sweet's OK but he's no Whelan.

aliantha wrote:

Romeo wrote:In another thread, I told a story that Steve related to me at the last World Fantasy Con. He said that DelRey and Sweet got together for the cover art for The Wounded Land, and ended up drawing Covenant in a robe (which wasn't in the manuscript). DelRey had Steve rewrite the scene so that he's properly attired when the the Krill rises from the lake. One of the haruchai throws a robe over him just before that scene, and right after, he shrugs it off.

That's just sick. Jeez. Lester Del Ray shoulda been ashamed of himself.

Wonder why Del Ray didn't try to have SRD change the story to explain the appearance of the African safari hunter standing on the banks of Glimmermere? That surely isn't supposed to be Brinn.

Sweet's OK but look at TWL and especially WGW-Wielder is horrid, seriously horrid. I'm reading McKillup's Riddle-Master of Hed books and Sweet did those too--and they're cool-I guess he was the 'in-house" Del Rey artist for a long time. Sweet's OK but he's no Whelan.

Which WGW cover are you talking about? The original, with Honninscrave melded into the floor, isn't bad - of course, TC looks like Igor from "Young Frankenstein" (it's pronounced I-gor ) and LA looks like she's practicing for an audition for an Excedrin commercial, but Gibbon looks really scary. The cover for which the KW logo is derived (see above) is horrible. It's like TC is telling LA "Someday, my dear, this Sunbane-wracked Land will be all yours."

ROFLMAO!!!!

Whelan is a fantastic artist. I am glad he will be doing the cover.

Linden in the cover picture up above i nthe banner always reminds me of this old tv show called The Bionic Woman. She looks like the actress in that show to me. Wonder if that would make Thomas Covenant the Six Million Dollar Man?

I always wondered what Thomas was doing with the Staff on that cover...he never touched the thing in the book.

And Whelan is awesome...I love the art he did for the DT books

You mean we need a new logo for KW?

I believe the only time he touched the staff (and both times that come to mind was the original staff), there were big explosions. I think if I were Linden, I'd tell him to keep his destructive paws off of it!

Yep, he only touched the original twice. First time in LFB to call the Fire Lions. Second time on the Colossus where his ring destroyed it. I was referring to WGW's cover, which depicts the new Staff, which Covenant never touched let alone held...

And then, there is the book club cover for the Second Chrons omnibus, where Covenant is holding up that disk thingie thing...what the?!?!

Just the artists idea of something. I asked Steve about it at WFC, and all he said was that he doesn't have much input on what gets drawn (and then went into the story about the Wounded Land cover).

I still think it's The One Plate - the serving lost serving dish from Berek's queen.