Charles Vess Book of Ballads and Sagas Original Art Edition

The Book Of Ballads, The Original Art Edition

Twenty-two years ago, superstar artist Charles Vess teamed up with an all-star ensemble of basis-breaking and award winning writers including Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Jane Yolen (Lost Girls), Sharyn McCrumb (The Ballad of Frankie Silverish), and Jeff Smith (Os) to produce THE BOOK OF BALLADS – which reimagined the greatest English, Irish, and Scottish folktales in sequential art.

This September, Titan Comics will produce a special, oversized hardcover art edition presenting Charles Vess' original work in a glorious 10 x fifteen dimension then fans tin enjoy the legendary collection from a modernistic master in an all-new way. In addition to this oversized page treatment, Charles Vess' original thumbnails and story notes are also included in this unique and unmissable art edition.

From Neil Gaiman's retelling of "The False Knight on the Route", to Jeff Smith's "The Galtee Farmer", and Jane Yolen'south "Male monarch Henry" – Charles Vess' The Book of Ballads brought new visions of the classic folktales from the brightest New York Times bestsellers, honour winners, and masters of scientific discipline fiction and fantasy together with stunning art from Charles Vess. With this new THE Volume OF BALLADS Art EDITION, get ready to feel the stories afresh!

Titan Comics, November 01, 2017
ISBN: 978-178276-332-1
x″ x 15″, 160 pages
$75 USD
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Later a v year hiatus we are treated to a second Original Art Edition from Titan, this time a wonderful collection of Charles Vess doing what he does best.

The introduction by Vess provides a comprehensive history of the piece of work and its path to this edition. From there nosotros become a table of contents, thirteen stories of original art, an extras section and to close it all out short biographies of the artist and writers. The extras department includes scripts, thumbnails, alternating art, all with notes. Vess changes upward his manner so many times throughout the stories it's a true please to admire every page.

Scans are clean and clear, except for the pages with text from Alison Gross, which are slightly blurry and have a gray colour that doesn't await right. Blacks are fairly consistent with no gradients, just we get an endless array of cantankerous hatching. Pages accept aged well, showing off white to low-cal tan. Correction fluid used throughout, on word balloons, borders and console images. The latter stories have their text pasted into the discussion balloons. No notes in the margins but each story has hand numbered pages.

Blueprint by Donna Askem is minimal, with no colour. Spot illustrations used on indices and championship pages accept been cleaned up to lineart and don't fit with this volume of original fine art. Title page lists stories and page numbers but page numbers aren't used as the scans are full size with no margins. No chapter dividers only each story has a dainty splash with title.

Product is excellent: sewn binding of heavy matte paper stock. Every page lays flat in one case the heart is smoothed. The volume comes shrink wrapped, with no cardboard case. This is one of the smaller Creative person'southward Edition format books at 10″ ten 15″, and also one of the cheapest. The UPC and price on the back of the book is a sticker and lists U.South., Canadian and Uk pricing.

There's nothing in the solicitation or introduction about whether the art is printed at total size, but like art from Vess on sale sites is also 10″ ten 15″.