Friday, May 8, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
David Bergen's cover illustrations for The Earthsea Quartet
One of the few Earthsea book cover artists who actually depict Ged and Tehanu as people of color. The author Ursula Le Guin describes Ged as "reddish dark", and the Gontish people in general as red-skinned.
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| Click thumbnail to view larger image on katongboy.worpress.com | Detail of Ged | Detail of Tehanu |
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts"
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts is the 2005 followup to Ocelot's 1998 Kirikou and the Sorceress. This anthology of stories takes place within the Kirikou and the Sorceress timeline. Each episodes narrates Kirikou's ways of circumventing the Sorceress' oppressive tactics, or how the infant hero creatively manages human conflicts with wildlife.
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| Waterfall |
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| Sorceress' House |
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| Kirikou rides Giraffe |
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Nancy Duong's "Scarlet Moon" and "Year of the Cat"
Vietnamese-inspired illustrations by Nancy Duong.
Click on thumbnails to view images in artist's web gallery.
Click on thumbnails to view images in artist's web gallery.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Julie Dillon's "Breaking Through" and "Planetary Alignment"
Monday, December 8, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
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