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Imaginary Lands, ed. by Robin McKinley, is one of the collections of stories I remember reading as a kid, and I got the urge to re-read it recently and fortunately my local library still had a copy in the main branch.
The thing that struck me as oddest on this re-read was glancing at the back jacket copy and noting that the cover art was by Peter Sis.
(sorry, I am too lazy to go fetch an accent mark for his last name. This makes me a bad person, but it is what it is.)
It seemed odd because, if I stared hard and squinted at the cover I could sort of see the visual connection to Mr. Sis's style in his very well received picture books, but it was a really vague connection. So I had that moment of going "oh, yeah, artists really change, and all start doing something" that I get when I see, oh, the old black and white interior line illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, or Maurice Sendak's early books that are all soft and watercolor-y. I like all three in their early work, mind you, it's just so different from the work that I instantly think of when I think of their careers.
The thing that struck me as oddest on this re-read was glancing at the back jacket copy and noting that the cover art was by Peter Sis.
(sorry, I am too lazy to go fetch an accent mark for his last name. This makes me a bad person, but it is what it is.)
It seemed odd because, if I stared hard and squinted at the cover I could sort of see the visual connection to Mr. Sis's style in his very well received picture books, but it was a really vague connection. So I had that moment of going "oh, yeah, artists really change, and all start doing something" that I get when I see, oh, the old black and white interior line illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, or Maurice Sendak's early books that are all soft and watercolor-y. I like all three in their early work, mind you, it's just so different from the work that I instantly think of when I think of their careers.
