The Adventure of the Creeping Man by Arthur Conan Doyle, the story that inspired Neil to write The Case of Death and Honey, for the frontis illustration that Gary first designed, for our Fine edition three pass hot metal type letterpress edition, was an evocative mood piece, when we placed the original idea in the draft of the book we both felt that it should really have Holmes and Watson, Gary’s next sketch did just that and still included the evocative mood of the first idea.
I love these sketch images, and giving you all an insight into the long creative process that goes into making an illustrated book.
