Thursday, January 31, 2013

Sit, ubues. Sit.

If you're even moderately familiar with the history of D&D Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess, then you're no doubt aware of the two versions of the module, and the questionable artwork from the first version.

While doing some digging/scouring yesterday for some public domain artwork, I came across the following Arthur Rackham illustration from the 1922/27 edition of Macmillan's English Fairy Tales. It's an illustration of the three-headed giant from the story Jack the Giant Killer and when I saw it, the first thing that popped in my head was Erol Otus's illustration of the ubues from B3.

Was Erol influenced by the Rackham illustration? Probably. But if I actually make it out the North Texas RPG Con this year, I'm going to ask him for myself!



3 comments:

  1. I saw that Rackham illustration before and thought the exact same thing.

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  2. Fantastic find, New Big Dragon. Great pun in the title, also!

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  3. And if you do see Errol Otus, ask him how he can be contacted about creating new artwork! :)

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