 The Pit of Doom
(The Chasm of Doom)
(From the book "Heroes & Villains")
By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor & Contributing writer
Originally
created for the 1985 Lone Wolf roleplay paperback game book "Le
Gouffre Maudit" (The Chasm of Doom) Loup Solitaire: Un Livre Dont Vous
Etes Le Heros - this was the fourth of the first four cover art pieces
produced over Christmas 1984. Painted in Oil and Acrylic on card
mounted on wood panel.
Following
the commercial success of these works produced for the Paris-based
publisher Editions Gallimard the art was subsequently licensed by The
Solar Wind Picture Library to Red Fox books in London at which point,
after several more licenses from other primary French editions he
created, the Artist was asked to create the English covers from scratch from
then on.
 The
French covers were also used by Edizioni E. Elle in Triteste as they
has a commercial trading relationship with Gallimard and eventually
these cover paintings spread out across the globe in almost every
country on the planet with the exception of the USA. where later, due
to copyright restrictions, the Artist created several replacement works
for Berkley Books in New York. It
would be impossible to really assess the number of paperbacks on which
these cover illustrations appeared but certainly it runs into millions.
The
irony in this is that the Artist did not initially seek to be involved
in Roleplay Games Art and the requests to create images for both
paperback and software games products came purely as as result of the
work he was already known for producing, primarily in the Science
Fiction genre.
Indeed,
though later rescinded due to the impossibility and obsolescence of
adopting such a stance, at the outset The Solar Wind Studio had a
policy of never soliciting for work, relying instead on reputation of
previous works to elicit trade.
Eventually
the Artist gave up having any marketing policy because it became
pointless in view of the sheer extent of usage and exposure,
including some infringements of copyright, that came into being.
Deborah Susan Jones
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