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SEVERANCE S1 LP Soundtrack

Greg Ruth

*SPOILER WARNING: If you're not familiar with or have seen the first season of Severance, please fix that first. While this article is primarily about the process around the 2-set LP we did for MONDO/Death Waltz Records, I'm not going to hold back on worrying about spoilers. So this is your only warning. Essentially, stop, go right now and watch the first season toot sweet. As design and illustration jobs go there to date hasn't…

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Interior Illustrations – To Green Angel Tower

Donato Giancola

January 14, 2026 - 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 that the amount of artwork for that 'third book' would be doubled to 12 images, compared to the first two books with 6 each. Each tome would have 6 interior full color plates as well as signature page title illustrations. Given the freedom, trust and time Shawn Speakman and Jeff Larson, the publishers of Grim Oak Press, gave to me,…

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