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The Pit of Doom
(The Curse of Naar)(From the book "Heroes & Villains")By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor There
are two versions of cover art for Joe Dever's book
The Curse of
Naar by Peter, one for the UK & Commonwealth market,
which was the
first version, and the second for the North American
market for Berkley
Books in New York, this latter created because of market
overlaps of
the
two territories would have caused copyright license
exclusivity breach
and so the second version was done on commission for
Berkley in order
to avoid this conflict.The
Curse of Naar is the twentieth book in the award-winning
Lone Wolf book
series created by Joe Dever. Above is the cover art of
the US
paperback edition and the final book in the "Grand
Master" series, and
the last one released in North America.This
painting (in oil and acrylic) shows Lone Wolf at a
junction of the
Plane of Darkness, tasked with liberating the Moonstone
from the Dark
God's clutches.Naar,
an infinite god of darkness who exists on the Plane of
Darkness,
confronts Lone Wolf and his Sommerswerd (sword) with a
view to
destroying him.Peter's
original paintings for both the Red Fox imprint of
Century Publishing
in London and the Berkeley Books edition differed in
format from the
first versions done for Editions Gallimard in Paris (and
subsequently
licensed to other European publishers) in being
landscape in format to
suit wraparound cover presentation and in having an
extra third,
positioned to the right of the painting and unseen on
the paperbacks,
to give the original a more balanced composition to the
image and you
can see this presentation at the top of this page.Peter's
Lone Wolf paintings are truly global presentations,
skillfully crafted
to respect the demands of publishers and to work across
many language
markets and differing presentations in layout, title
typography and
editorial viewpoints which, along with the author's own
briefs for the
paintings was all part of the sophisticated visual
juggling act to
satisfy all parties. That's the job of a professional
illustrator.Deborah Susan Jones
