CRYPTS of TERROR
(Saga of The
Demonspawn)
(From the artist's book "Heroes
& Villains II")By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor This painting was created in the artist's
Wimbledon-based London studio in January
1992.The painting is unusual in
terms of the artist's normal working methods at that time
in that it takes a picture proportion he normally reserved
for wraparound book covers and up-ends it to a vertical
which, when appearing on the actual book cover, sheds a
portion of the top of the picture. At the time of
creation, so hot was the market for the artist's output,
publishers welcomed any extra usage they could extract
from a painting and this layout was tried sometimes to
provide the publisher with the option of areas for a
poster to appear in book stores and other printed
promotional settings and positions.Sagas of The
Demonspawn was a Role play game books series written by
J. H. Brennan and which, amongst other countries, was
published in Italy by Edizione E.Elle in Trieste, a
publisher that the artist had a long working
relationship with born out of their initial involvement
in publishing Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series which they
had initially sub-licensed from Editions Gallimard, the
Paris based publishers of the series and for who they
provided printing services of the French paperback
series, which led to the Italian publisher asking the
artist to work on further role play titles and some
related novels in the Italian role play publishing
market during the 1980s and into the 90s.It was also subsequently
licensed to a publisher in the Czech Republic called Laser
Books in February 1997.The picture is also related to
another in the Demonspawn series, Fire Wolf, which you can
see here.Deborah
Susan Jones : Editor
