Howl's Moving Picture Gallery

[shewhomust]

durham_rambler sent me a link to this gallery in the Guardian. The Folio Society, in a clever piece of self-promotion, is holding a competition to choose who will illustrate its forthcoming edition of Howl's Moving Castle, and these are the finalists. I'm not at all sure that I approve of this entire enterprise, but there are some very pleasing pictures here. And how often do you get a gallery of DWJ fan-art in the Guardian?

ETA: fjm e-mails to point out a fuller selection, and how to vote.

Comments

[larryhammer]

I can't honestly say from this side of the Puddle, but I can't imagine it's often.

[sovay]

I'm not at all sure that I approve of this entire enterprise, but there are some very pleasing pictures here.

I definitely feel weird about crowdsourcing the choice, but I love seeing what moments people decided to illustrate. Like I would not have expected multiple takes on the mermaids singing at the harbor wall, but I like that we got them.

(I would now go with a collaborative approach and have the book illustrated by the twenty-five different people or whatever, but that's me.)

[shewhomust]

See edit for another gallery, which shows multiple images from each artist, and casts light on how people chose what to illustrate (I think a cover design must have been part of the brief).

I sympathise with the 'I'll have some of each' approach, but I think I prefer to have a single illustrator!

[sovay]

See edit for another gallery, which shows multiple images from each artist, and casts light on how people chose what to illustrate (I think a cover design must have been part of the brief).

Oh, cool. I will go look at that.

I sympathise with the 'I'll have some of each' approach, but I think I prefer to have a single illustrator!

I liked different people's designs for different characters!

[anef]

Thank you, those are really interesting.

[shewhomust]

Happy to share them!