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Hart Rieckhof (graphic designer extraordinaire) sent me this great Marquis piece~ if there ever was a Marquis opera, this would be the perfect playbill!

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It's always a great surprise to come across cool Marquis fan art while plodding around the internet~ like this wonderful Marquis portrait by storyboard artist Jim Miller!

Big Jim Sucks! (I didn't say that~ he did!)

Marquis bookplate artwork

More found artwork~ this drawing of the Marquis with pistol and devils was done as a book plate for the signed hardcover volume of Danse Macabre that ONI put out years back.

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And speaking of artists with great and unique styles~ Warwick Johnson Cadwell sent me this wonderful drawing of the Marquis facing off against a huge devil!

WJC

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A few years ago, Javier Olivares sent me this wonderful drawing of a brooding Marquis in his great and unique style!

Javier Olivares Black Blog News

le Marquis layout

While going through some old sketchbooks I found the original designs for the French edition of The Marquis: Intermezzo cover. For the Danse Macabre cover I went through a few different designs before the settling on the final version, but with Intermezzo I got lucky and figured it out with the first sketch. The backcover was pretty close too, but almost matched the english version (lower right). The b/w line work to the French Intermezzo cover can be found here.

Intermezzo back cover

For the 2003 Marquis: Intermezzo collection (that reprinted Hell's Courtesan and A Sin of One), I did this drawing of the Marquis and the escaping devils of Hell for the backcover~ which became clearer when reversed out and colored (but ended up being covered by a lot of text copy). The stories from "Intermezzo" were reprinted in the new Marquis: Inferno collection, but there wasn't room to include this piece in the sketchbook section.