The Adventures of Dragoman, DJ
- THE ADVENTURES OF DRAGOMAN, DJ - A color pencil drawing on an 11 x 16 size on poster board circa 1979.
This drawing was intended to be the wraparound dust jacket art for a book to be titled, "The Adventures of Dragoman" by Otis Adelbert Kline, which was scheduled for publication in the early 1980s by Ted Dikty of Fax Publications. I also did 7 full page story illustrations in color pencil for the book.
After the artwork was done and before the book actually went into production, Dikty was advised by a book market "expert" that the author's books were not selling, and convinced Dikty not to produce the book
When Dikty sent me a check in payment for my artwork he enclosed a note telling me of his decision. I was really disappointed and even though I got paid for my work, I thought my time had been wasted. Kline's work is considered by some critics to be poor imitations of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. That may be true with Kline's "Mars" books, but I don't think it applies to the Dragoman stories. My artwork for the book appears only in my Art Folio, "The Stephen E. Fabian Collection, No. 10 - Dragoman". And of course, in this website.
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