Cover Illustrations for the Pulp Series Maddrax, 2000
Götter und Barbaren
Maddrax is a German pulp series published biweekly by Bastei since 2000. The series is a genre mixture of science-fiction, horror and fantasy and evolves around the former United Air Force pilot Matthew Drax who has been transported some 500 years into a post-apocalyptic future.
In addition to the black-and-white title page, used till vol. 100, I contributed two cover illustrations, according to the editor’s descriptions.
The authors of these two novels are Jo Zybell (vol. 10) and Bernd Frenz (vol. 22).
More on Maddrax in the Maddrax Wiki or in a current Deutschlandfunk post.
Covers: © Bastei Lübbe
Title Pages and Other Repeatedly Used Illustrations for Pulp Series , 1994–1999
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- Vampira, Rota-Seite
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- Vampira, Rota-Seite gedruckt
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- Vampira, Vorankündigungsseite
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- Vampira, drei Kapitel-Trenner
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- Die UFO-Akten, Rota-Seite
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- Amerika!, Rota-Seite
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- Amerika! Vorankündigungsseite
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- Maddrax, Rota-Seite
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- Maddrax, Vorankündigungsseite
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- Maddrax, drei Kapitel-Trenner
Vampira, Illustration for the reader's page
The so called “Rota-Seite” (named after the rotating printing machines) is the third page of a pulp magazine. In some cases it is illustrated with a fitting drawing to frame the teaser. I drew this kind of repeatedly used illustrations for four different pulp series. Maddrax and Vampira are still (or again) running, but have new title pages, Amerika! and Die UFO-Akten (inspired, obviously, by The X-Files) were abandoned after a year.
In 2011 I drew the title page for the series 2012.
