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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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Grub, Storied Matriarch

Jesper Ejsing

October 13, 2025 - When I first started working for Magic in 2005 the set I worked on was Lorwyn. Now; 20 years later we return to Lorwyn and I had the great pleasure of being part of the design team for the set. One of the task I was given was to try and make the Boggarts a tiny bit more likeable. Especially the elderly female boggarts called Aunties - something like witches - had to look like size and smart and to some degree likeable in their own way. I ended up doing 2 illustrations of the same character; one where is is in her good version ( Lorwyn) and one where she is in her more sinister version ( Shadowmore). She is a potion maker and a collector of strange ingredients. I thought of old Disney…

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