The Captives of Kaag
(From the book "Heroes &
Villains")
By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor & Contributing Writer
The Captives of Kaag
is number 14 from the Legends of Lone Wolf book series
of role play games books written by author Joe Dever.
The painting was first created for the Solar
Wind Picture Library, a licensing division of our
company Solar Wind, in 1990, and licensed to Red Fox
Books in the UK in February of that same year and in the
same month the following year to Edizioni E. Elle in
Italy, and Italian publisher we enjoyed a very close
working relationship with.
 Joe Dever, author of
the book series, kept in close communication with Peter
at our London studio throughout the process of creating
this and many other images for the Red Fox book series
and it was a fantastically creative relationship and
working process.
The fresh input of role play games concepts,
fused with all Peter's previous successes in Science
Fiction and Fantasy book cover design, even his time as
a student at St. Martins School of Art, where his
strongest influence was probably still Salvador
Dali, an artist that Peter spent hours studying at the
Tate Gallery even as a child - the whole of this visual
background produced the imaginative,
characteristic and deeply descriptive mode of creating
illustration after illustration for Joe Dever's
incredibly imaginative series.
The studio was always a-buzz with writers
from the genre, phoning, visiting and if not bsed
in the UK, faxing and phoning - Steve Jackson, Ian
Livingstone, Mark Smith and Jamie Thompson were studio
visitors, David Hickling and Perry HInton, Dan Glimne at
Brio/Alga - all these role-play games authors and more,
passed through or were closely involved in
the studio's process of creating these legendary and
famous role-play games works.
You can share in the exprience, with a copy
of the luxury edition of our HEROES &
VILLAINS book and indulge in a visual treat, a
whole host of Peter's role play art, from Lone Wolf to
Fighting Fantasy, Starflight Zero, The Falcon series,
Kult and more!
Deborah Susan Jones

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