The John Howe Website has sent us a whole stack of news items from the comings and goings of my favorite watch-wearing Tolkien artist, John Howe. [More]
Day: January 23, 2003
From: The John Howe Website
What’s on the drawing board :
A new Robin HOBB cover, for the third volume of the Tawny Man, which is currently entitled Fool‘s End. Head over to www.robinhobb.com for more details. I’ve drawn myself into a bit of a corner for this series – each cover consists of the border (only had to do that once, thankfully) a main front cover image, a back cover (with loads of room for happy graphic artists to cram with copy) a spine vignette, and eight vignettes. Deadline : the end of the month.
What’s just been delivered :
A cover piece for a book by Eric Van Lustbader, featuring the heroine of the series and a water dragon. I’ll post a jpeg as soon as the editor gives me the green light.
I’ve also finally finished the artwork for A Clash of Kings, by George R. R. Martin.
What’s up next :
Some time away there and back again. Hopefully, I’ll have time to access the site whenever I get near a computer, so I can keep abreast of the forum.
The Tolkien exhibition will be in Rennes starting from March 31st to April 6th. The show went very well in Paris ; we had a marvellous opening, with Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and a generous handful of the cast and crew present. (Every time someone would hand me the catalogue to sign, it was already half-filled with all kinds of famous signatures. I had to squeeze mine in where I could.) Naturally, I managed NOT to actually come out of it all with a ccpy of my own catalogue, much less a signed one. How clueless can I get? We didn’t even take many photos, pretty pitiful, eh? For more information on the event in Rennes :
http://pourtolkien.free.fr/semaine_litteraire.html
After Rennes, the show will be in Charleville-Mézières, before coming to the Neuchâtel for the next International Fantasy Film Festival. A real live film festival, here in sleepy Neuchâtel, coming up on its third edition !. That’s what I call news. (Two years ago I had the immense honour of meeting Tobe Hooper – so, expect LOTS of news about the event as July draws nearer.)
Speaking of events, we just returned from the annual meeting of the Italian Tolkien Society in Rome last weekend. Their Tolkien exhibition is currently at the magnificent Castel Sant’Angelo, near the Vatican. Rome was of course warm and sunny and I took about half a million photos in the Forum. (I think there are definitely some landscapes of Victorian inspiration coming on – all that cracked marble and Mediterranean pines and cypresses is just too much to resist.)
So that’s it for now.
As the saying goes : watch this space !
John
Jamie writes: Today (January 23rd), the country of Ukraine will see the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Okay, so it is still not clear to everyone. I will explain it again: everyone with a mobile phone number is able to vote for The Two Towers as ‘Orange Film of the Year’. It does not matter whether you are from the US, Holland or for all I care Zimbabwe, everyone with a mobile number can enter. The terms and conditions mentioned on the website (Orange.co.uk) only apply when it comes to entering with the chance to win a ticket to the BAFTAS (you have to be over 18, live in the UK etc etc), so everyone from all over the world can vote for TTT by just entering their mobile number but only people from the UK who are over 18 can enter to win a ticket to the BAFTAS. This is however not really important since we all want TTT to win this award, so go out and vote!
The guys over at Andy Serkis’s website dropped us a line to let us know he has a couple of events coming up over the next week. [More]
Here’s a report from Lonestarr, who went to the Bros Hildebrandt exhibition in Santa Monica [More]