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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jan 23, 2022 12:16:23 GMT
Your discovery of the signed painting of book 6 led me to review all the art we know as Brian Salmon's, as I was depending on gamebooks.org for that. 5's beaver reprint which was unattributed looked pretty unquestionably to be by the same artist as 6's 2nd beaver cover, so I contacted Fred Gambino to enquire if he did the book 5 beaver coverart as well (and ask if he'd done any others other than Cauldron). He confirmed that he did the cover for 5, 6, 9 as well as 8 that gamebooks also attributes to Brian Salmon. He also did the original cover for the "Sword of the Sun" novel. In short, he is responsible for these five covers:  Given this I find the need to reexamine Brian Salmon's body of lone wolf coverart. Personally I am confident he did the 4 beaver reprints for 1-2-3-4. Will look to see what attribution is around for 10 & 12. Unfortunately as far as I can tell he does not have any kind of website or contact details. --edit Asked Fred about the other original novel covers, he also did the original "eclipse of the kai" cover which project aon credits to Brian Williams:  |
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Post by Black Cat on Jan 23, 2022 15:53:56 GMT
Glad to be helpful!
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Post by Black Cat on Jan 23, 2022 22:34:19 GMT
Given this I find the need to reexamine Brian Salmon's body of lone wolf coverart. Personally I am confident he did the 4 beaver reprints for 1-2-3-4. Will look to see what attribution is around for 10 & 12. Unfortunately as far as I can tell he does not have any kind of website or contact details. Book 2 and 4 are clearly signed "B. S.". Book 1 seems to have also that signature (near LW foot on the right) but I'm not sure (edit: found a better image and yes, it is the signature). I did not find it on book 3. As for book 12, there seems to be the top of the signature at the bottom right of the cover, the lower half being covered by the "Gamebook of the year" thing. The signature might also be covered on the cover of book 10 but that's just speculation. |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jan 23, 2022 22:53:30 GMT
Yes, that looks pretty clear for 12. Also opens up that he did a different style from the 1-4 ones, so perhaps the first print of 6 may have been him?
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Post by Black Cat on Jan 24, 2022 0:03:18 GMT
Looking at the face and fingers of Vonotar on book 2 of the Pacer edition and comparing them to the cover of book 3 by Don Maitz, I'm pretty sure it is the same artist as they are very similar (the artist himself made a lapsus by saying his cover for book was for book 2: link). Maybe you could ask him directly on his website? |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jan 25, 2022 0:37:53 GMT
Looking at the face and fingers of Vonotar on book 2 of the Pacer edition and comparing them to the cover of book 3 by Don Maitz, I'm pretty sure it is the same artist as they are very similar (the artist himself made a lapsus by saying his cover for book was for book 2: link). Maybe you could ask him directly on his website? Checked with him, he confirmed just books 1 & 3. |
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Post by Black Cat on Jan 25, 2022 5:27:35 GMT
Looking at the face and fingers of Vonotar on book 2 of the Pacer edition and comparing them to the cover of book 3 by Don Maitz, I'm pretty sure it is the same artist as they are very similar (the artist himself made a lapsus by saying his cover for book was for book 2: link). Maybe you could ask him directly on his website? Checked with him, he confirmed just books 1 & 3. Aww... The two Vonotars do look similar though... For that German cover of book 9 that we have no clue where it comes from, I was thinking that since they used Gary Chalk's artwork that was inside book 5 to make the covers of books 5 and 6, maybe they used an artwork from inside another book of another series that they have published? |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jan 25, 2022 10:42:36 GMT
Checked with him, he confirmed just books 1 & 3. Aww... The two Vonotars do look similar though... Might be that Pacer gave it to him as a guide "do a wizard that looks like this" or something. For that German cover of book 9 that we have no clue where it comes from, I was thinking that since they used Gary Chalk's artwork that was inside book 5 to make the covers of books 5 and 6, maybe they used an artwork from inside another book of another series that they have published? Could be, though the art kind of looks like it was always supposed to be in colour. Might also be art planned for a cancelled book that they moved across. |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Feb 27, 2022 9:17:06 GMT
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Aug 2, 2022 21:18:39 GMT
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Aug 10, 2022 18:32:20 GMT
Added Slobodan Cedić for Mantikore 26/27 (thanks for confirming palarran!) And....a big one, added Brian Salmon for Beaver 1st edition book 6! This completes all UK books. I had a thought about Joe Dever's notes to Fred Gambino for book 9 that are in the PA misc pdf, and wondered if Joe had kept more. Contacted August Hahn...and he had them and confirmed Brian Salmon for book 6 from them.  I doubt we'll ever find out who did the missing Pacer ones so this is the quest essentially done for me - though I will continue to keep it updated with the newer covers that come out. |
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 15, 2022 20:45:58 GMT
Someone just posted a picture of the only LW book published in Hungarian on the official Lone Wolf Facebook group. Among the comments, the name of the artist that did the cover, Attila Boross. link |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jul 15, 2023 10:21:51 GMT
Added: Alberto Dal Lago up to book 12 for Holmgard now the previews are available. Lucas Torquato for Jambo 1/2 (thanks Black Cat) Elementi.Studio for Mantikore 29.  The engraving on the Celaeno Books hardback for book 1 (which has a Dal Lago dustjacket same as Vincent Books) is by Eliezer Mayor  If it turns out to be unique to book one (and not, say, for the whole Kai series) I will add it to the list. |
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Post by matthill on Jul 23, 2023 23:14:54 GMT
Fascinating thread, thank you for compiing all this info -- I've long been confused about the artists for the various Beaver reprintings and this clears it up. However, I'm still confused about the first Beaver edition of Kingdoms of Terror. You seem confident that it's Brian Salmon, but the style is so different from his other covers. Is it possible it could still be someone else, as yet unidentified?  |
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Post by lorddarkstorm on Jul 24, 2023 13:30:10 GMT
Fascinating thread, thank you for compiing all this info -- I've long been confused about the artists for the various Beaver reprintings and this clears it up. However, I'm still confused about the first Beaver edition of Kingdoms of Terror. You seem confident that it's Brian Salmon, but the style is so different from his other covers. Is it possible it could still be someone else, as yet unidentified? Thanks! I agree about how different it is from his other covers - but then his 1-4 covers are also quite different to his 10 & 12 covers, so that's not enough on its own to raise alarm bells for me. The reason I am pretty confident is because I asked August Hahn (a LW writer who is part of the Holmgard Publishing team alongside Ben and Vincent - he's authored some of the bonus adventures and was key in the creation of the RPG for instance), who has access to Joe's notes, and August said that he had Joe's original art brief for this piece as part of his notebooks, and that it was Brian Salmon. I suppose it's still possible that Brian ended up having to pass on the job and someone else did it, as with Angus Fieldhouse for 11, but it being in Joe's notes is pretty strong for me. Sadly Brian, if he is still with us, does not have any kind of online presence I am aware of. |
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