Title Page for the Pulp Series 2012 – Das Jahr der Apokalypse, 2011
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- Bleistiftskizze
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- Fertige Zeichnung
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- Gedruckte Rotaseite
Maya vignettes
2012 – Das Jahr der Apokalypse (The Year of the Apocalypse) is an adventure/mystery pulp mini-series published by Bastei since September 6, 2011. It deals with the apocalypse allegedly predicted by the Mayan calendar.
To create the ink drawing for the interior title page (The so called “Rota-Seite”) I was given a series synopsis, a list of possible subjects and a few compulsory subjects: the Maya plaque and stele, the Easter Island statue and some Central American pyramids (I chose Uxmal and Chichen Itza). The first sketch was improved according to further suggestions by the editor, Michael Schönenbröcher. The vignettes are used as chapter headers.
More information about the series here
More pulp series title pages here .
Rota-Seite: © Bastei-Lübbe
Illustrations for Die Herren der Zeit (The Lords of Time) by Helmut W. Pesch, 2000
The novel, published in paperback by Bastei Lübbe, is the sequel to The Rings of Power – not quite so close to the Lord of the Rings as its predecessor (in the second part there’s a lot of time travelling going on), but still with substantial and, as in The Rings of Power, deliberately used Tolkien reminiscences.
The original drawings are missing, therefore I scanned the book pages.
Illustrations for “The Alchemy of the Throat” and “The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins” by Brian Hodge, 1999
The book Von Heiligen und Mördern, a collection of two loosely connected novellettes by Brian Hodge, was edited by Frank Festa as part of his Edition Metzengerstein and published by Blitz. Initially they were published within Poppy Z. Brite’s anthologies Love in Vain 1 (1994) und 2 (1995). The first novelette, “The Alchemy of the Throat” (Die Alchemie der Stimme), was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the second,”The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins” (Von Heiligen und Mördern), for the World Fantasy Award.
I love both stories deeply, to work with them and to create these 13 drawings was pure joy.
The book cover was designed by Malte S. Sembten, based on two black-and-white, Celtic inspired initials that I painted with acrylic.
Cover: © Blitz
Illustrations for 1000 unerklärliche Phänomene (1000 Unexplainable Phenomenons) by Kai Hövelmann, 1998
The juvenile non-fiction book was published in 1999 by Loewe, illustrated with 49 interior drawings. A Czech translation was published in 2001 by Nava, a Slovenian translation in 2004 by Mladinska knjiga. As you can see, the book displayed a wide range of themes: from aliens to Tut Ankh Amun’s curse, from mysteriously vanished airplanes to the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation…
Illustrations for a John Sinclair Anniversary Paperback Edition, Part 4 (Vol. 17–21), 1998/99
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- Bd. 17/1, Der Würfel des Unheils
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- Bd. 18/1, Die Mörder-Blumen
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- Bd. 19/3, Flucht in die Schädelwelt
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- Bd. 19/4, Im Land des Vampirs
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- Bd. 20/1, Die fliegenden Särge
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- Bd. 20/3, Das Elexier des Teufels
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- Bd. 20/4, Die Nacht der flammenden Augen
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- Bd. 20/5, Der Gigant von Atlantis
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- Bd. 20/8, Die Teufelsuhr
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- Bd. 21/1, Myxins Entführung
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- Bd. 21/2, Wer mit Gedanken töten kann
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- Bd. 21/3, Der Spiegel-Dämon
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- Bd. 21/5, Medusas Rache
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- Bd. 21/6, Der Zombie-Bus
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- Bd. 21/8, Die Bestien aus dem Geister-Sumpf
Vol. 18/5, Mr. Mondos Monster
A selection of 16 out of 50 illustrations for the John Sinclair anniversary paperbacks vol. 17–21. The edition was was chronological reprint of the original horror pulp series by Jason Dark (Helmut Rellergerd). Each book included 8 novels, the interior illustrations replaced the original color covers but were created independantly from their predecessors.
Altogether I illustrated 21 volumes with 169 drawings; more images in part 1, 2 und 3.
Overview of all John Sinclair books at gruselromane.de.
