For Hallmark Cards

I worked on the Rainbow Brite project for Hallmark Cards when it was conceived back in the mid 1980s. I did this and several other pen & inks and another artist added color to them. This is Red Butler.

Remarques...

This is a remarque I did in a Hodder (U.K.) edition of The Green Mile. I do no preliminary sketches in pencil because book paper is soft and absorbent and you don't want to start erasing on it. The collector wanted an electric chair. I started drawing in ink, beginning at the top and working my way down but not really knowing where I was going: I wanted something more ghoulish than the chair I did for the Dutton chapbooks, so I did not mind the distortions that came with having made no preliminary sketch. And, the collector was very happy with it.

Check out the new Inquisitor Apprentice website!

Author Chris Moriarty has created the very best website for the much-anticipated Inquisitor's Apprentice!
Here's the link: http://www.inquisitorsapprentice.com/   Chris offers a history of New York City and its people around the time that the novel was set--in the early 1900s. She discusses The Lower East Side, Coney Island, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, Little Italy, and Harlem and what life was like in those days. She talks about growing up in Manhattan and how some of the characters in Inquisitors are based on members of her extended family. She will be posting some of my illustrations from the novel once the book is out--October 3rd.

Going Through My Files...

Here's a portrait I did of biologist Edward O. Wilson for World Watch magazine.

Remarques

        Most people in publishing know what a remarque is, but for those who don't: a remarque (pronounced ree-mark) is a small, personalized drawing that an artist adds to a print or book. I do them on the title pages, as most illustrators do.
        Today I did remarques in two sets of The Green Mile for two different collectors, six chapbooks per set. Here's an example:

        Tomorrow I'm doing a remarque in a copy of Rose Madder that a collector has sent me. I'm going to do something more than the small drawing of a rose that I've done in the past: I want to do a viney rose that takes up more of the title page. Later this week I'm remarquing a set of the Dutton paperback chapbooks of The Green Mile for someone else. The paper is very absorbent and will require a different pen than that used on the Subterranean hardback set.
        I'm adding a News & Reviews page to my website. I've just started it. Here's the link: http://markedwardgeyernews.blogspot.com/

       

One of several new promo pieces that I showed editors and art directors in NYC June 1-3.