Garrido, Hector - Cade Curse, The - 1978 (Pop Lib -445-04266-4) Maurice CoonsBOARD: 15. 25 x 21. 5Acrylic on 1 8" Illustration BoardThis is the original painting published as the cover to the vintage Gothic novel The Cade Curse, written by Willo Davis Roberts in 1978. The artist, Hector Garrido, had an extremely successful, decades long career and along with Gothic covers such as this one, is also well known for painting book covers for famous series such as Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys and later in life became even more well
Such a gorgeous page
In a style highly reminiscent of Gustave Doré's wood etchings and the New York setting of Will Eisner's Spirit
With this incredible and instantly iconic looking image
landing a haymaker
I was fortunate enough to have that other cover sold to me
this cover hints at the content of the story and while it is being sold separately
Art by Robert Maguire
and most importantly
so he voluntarily decided to take an entire day out of his already busy schedule and redrew it to better depict the explosive turn of events for the poor Pale Wanderer
But as we see in the next page
yet deadly German damsels who band together to fight crime across the Motherland
Art by Robert E