Argumento
While appearing to be in black and white, each page has been scanned in color to recreate as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual originals—including blue pencils, notes, art corrections and more. Pages are reproduced at original size on heavy paper stock to provide fans, aficionados and collectors with the best possible reproductions.
Featuring Complete Graphic Stories and Stunning Comic-Book Adaptations of Songs and Poems
P. CRAIG RUSSELL: "Our fourth Fine Art Edition is a little unusual this time—it’s not directed at certain characters or collections of short stories. We're just going all out with the most obscure—yet I think most visually exciting—things to look at, without any reference to mainstream comics. It’s way deeper into the fantasy genre. A lot of us guys who started working in the seventies—Kaluta, Vess, Wrightson and Windsor-Smith—we were all influenced by that era of late 19th, early 20th century art and book illustration. All of these guys have continued working for decades, but that's where we came from. And so this book hearkens back to that."
Current contents include the following:
The Avatar and The Chimera (1978, 16 pages)
Pelléas & Mélisande (1985, 56 pages)
Ariane and Bluebeard (1988, 42 pages)
Two Anxious Songs (Whispers at Night, Beheading) (2013, 2 pages)
Little Nemo in Final Slumberland (2013, 1 page)
Nightride and Sunrise (Two Songs) (2014, 2 pages)
Spring and Autumn (Two Songs) (2014, 2 pages)
Love: Bitter and Sweet (Two Songs) (2015, 2 pages)
The Spectre of the Rose (Two Songs) (2015, 2 pages)
Pendant to the Rose (A Symbolist Fantasy) (2016, 2 pages)
Selected color pages from The Dreaming City (12 pages)