Sunday, September 8, 2013

Todd Lockwood's cover art for the Dark Elf Trilogy

Mass market paperback covers for the Homeland , Exile and Sojourn. Click on thumbnails to view full size images on artist's site:
Homeland
Exile

Sojourn

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Haroon Rashid's Burka Avenger

In this animated series conceptualized by pop star Haroon Rashid, the superhero battles corrupt politicians and misogynistic extremists in a fictional Pakistani city.

Jia teaches at a girl's school by day and fights injustice as a burqa-wearing action heroine by night.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Yasuhiro Imagawa's "Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Giant Robo assists
the warriors of Mount Liang
This retro-futuristic anime, inspired by Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same title, is set largely in a 2039 China that is simultaneously medieval, modern, and futuristic, where dirigibles, skyscrapers and trains co-exist with Taoist sorcerers and warriors on horseback.

A Japanese child Daisaku Kusama, recruited into the International Police Organization for his unique ability to command a powerful robot, goes to China to support the Beijing/Peking branch of the IPO. There he meets a colorful team of colleagues, many of them based on well-known characters from the Chinese classical novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin (aka Outlaws of the Marsh).

Monday, April 8, 2013

John Jude Palencar's cover art for Octavia Butler's Patternist series

Mass market paperback covers:
Wild Seed (1999) and Mind of my Mind (1994). (click thumbnails to view larger images on on artist's site)
Wild Seed cover art Mind of my Mind cover art
Clay's Ark (1996) and Patternmaster (1995), Click thumbnails to view larger images on on ifsdb.com.
Clay's Ark cover art Patternmaster cover art

Friday, March 8, 2013

Michel Ocelot's "Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest"

In this animated feature directed by Michel Ocelot, a sojourning Saracen widow is employed as a nanny by a European nobleman. The widow Jenane treats her young charge Azur with the same love that she gives her biological son, Asmar. Both boys grow up listening to Jenane sing about the Djinn Fairy who awaits a rescuer to break her curse.

The two boys are close as brothers until Azur's father, annoyed by the rough horseplay between the children, and uncomfortable with the bilingual upbringing that Azur is receiving from Jenane,  expels the nanny and her son.