Nov 12 2012
OK, before you call me on suddenly deciding that last names are now legit for my Alphabooks entries, note that “Mi” in the novel Planet of the Apes is a fictional honorific, like “Dr.” or “Mrs.” In the book, the character is referred to as “Zaius” or “Mi Zaius” throughout. Anyway… Z is for Mi …
Nov 05 2012
Y is for Yang Xiong — from Water Margin by Shi Nai’an Well, I had to once again break my self-imposed rule of doing only characters from books I’ve actually read. And, again, I could have easily avoided this with a bit of advance planning. Ygritte from The Song of Ice and Fire series would …
Oct 29 2012
X is for Xavier Desmond – from Wild Cards by George R. R. Martin Well, this is for sure one of my least favorite AlphaBooks illos. First off, I don’t really like the drawing very much. My wife was out of town this past weekend and the extra child-wrangling took a lot of my sketching …
Oct 22 2012
Ok, technically he’s John Wemmick, but he’s referred to simply as “Wemmick” throughout most of the book. So… W is for Wemmick – from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Wemmick is one of my favorite characters from all of Dickens’ writing. Wemmick is a bill collector for Jaggers who winds up befriending Pip. Despite his …
Oct 15 2012
I’ve had this guy in mind for “V” since the very beginning… V is for Vladimir Harkonnen – from Dune by Frank Herbert I’m pretty happy with the way this turned out; I think it’s one of my stronger AlphaBooks drawings. I did the initial sketch for this one right after Ahab (I was considering …
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