Evolution of a cover

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When I asked John Kissee to create the cover for the second Piper Houdini novel, Nightmare on Esopus Island, we started with a simple premise: make it look like a cover from a 1920s pulp fiction magazine. Here was his initial sketch…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice job, John! Only Piper looks a bit anorexic,
and tentacle-twins are too close together…

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Okay, that’s better! Let’s see it fleshed out as line art…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Looking real good! Now let’s see how it looks in color!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wow! That’s amazing! It really captures that classic pulp feel.
I just want you to tweak a couple of things…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Perfect!

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