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Interior Illustrations – To Green Angel Tower

Donato Giancola

These past few years I have had the honor to interpret a classic fantasy trilogy from the 1990's, Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series for Grim Oak Press. This trilogy culminates in the final massive tome To Green Angel Tower, and is so large it has historically been published as two volumes due to issues around binding that many pages in one book. Luckily for me as an illustrator tackling this project, it meant…

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Icons of the Fantastic

Arnie Fenner

December 1, 2025 - My shelves groan and bow and creak with our collection of art books and artist biographies; by this point in my life probably the last thing I need is another—and yet ... I didn't hesitate for a moment to get a copy of Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection. I couldn't help myself. Because it's really not your typical f&sf art book, not by a long shot. Above: "The Mock Turtle (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)" by Arthur Rackham. Carefully compiled, organized, and edited by Amanda T. Zehnder and David M. Brinley, there are numerous pages of beautiful and amazing art by a wide variety of artists, but it doesn't attempt to be a comprehensive history of the field and its participants: it's not claiming to be the "best of…

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