Friday, September 11, 2009

Le Marquis and the Colorist

Back in 2006 when I did the advance cover for the French Marquis and the Midwife for Les Humanoïdes Associés, they had the image fully colored. I wanted this to be the "white" cover to set it off from the other French Marquis tomes (Danse Macabre was the black cover and Intermezzo was the red one)~ and the colorist did a wonderful job of giving it a hazy winter feel too.

Unfortunately, I don't remember who the colorist was on this and Humanoides couldn't find their contact info either~ so if the colorist happens to find this blog, email me so we can give credit where credit is due and get you back in contact with Humanoides.

UPDATE: Thanks to FHNavarro for figuring out that the colorist is the talented, Javier Montes!

10 comments:

  1. this would make a really nice poster (35x50cm)

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  2. My God this a real smasher ! And I agree with the poster thing, that would be awesome !

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  3. Agree with the above two...this needs to be a print! C'mon Guy, we want to give you our money...help us out! How bout a print from each like the covers...one black, red, and white!

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  4. May be the colorist of The Marquis the spanish artist Javier Montes?

    http://javimontess.googlepages.com/

    Un saludo

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  5. Houu! I love this one! Encore, encore!

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  6. I second (or third) the call for a poster of this image. It is one of my favorite compositions as the crush of demonic cavaliers seems entirely overwhelming, but well within The Marquis' abilities to dispatch.

    And I just saw that you've tackled Solomon Kane too. I will be placing my order for that TPB before the day is out.

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  7. Thanks everyone! Glad you liked the cover image~ I'll look into doing prints again. I offered the covers to the first 2 French volumes as prints on my website in the past.

    Thanks FH~ you might be right, it looks like his style!

    Thanks KingUnicorn~ the Solomon Kane short is will be free online through Dark Horse Presents MySpace and then collected into tpb later.

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  8. Thanks FHNavarro! Got in contact with Javier and you were right it was him who colored the image!

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