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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 to due issues around binding that many pages in one book. Luckily for me as an illustrator tackling this project, it meant…

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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION


Greg Ruth

November 20, 2025 - As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and potent superpowers that inspiration possesses that it would despite its marginal affect, occupy such a lofty and present sphere, but an idea with out tangible agency is a carpenter without a hammer. Inspiration: the Muse or the lightening strike... (or whatever you want too call it), hat out of no where blossoming of thought and invention whether it's a solve…

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