Comments on: The Jewels of Aptor: Io9 Art Column Goes Live Today

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:14:28 +0000

Good guess, but he’s not an artist. This is an artist who also has taken up some writing.
JV

By: Chris Furst

Chris Furst — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:20:00 +0000

M. John Harrison?

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:31:27 +0000

Good guess, but his surrealism is more full-bodied. This is the kind of surrealism stewed in corrupted English city-scapes and foetid bars, among other things.

By: Caleb Wilson

Caleb Wilson — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:12:37 +0000

Dave McKean?

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:27:32 +0000

I thought it was his first, but only Matt Cheney knows for sure.

Michael Whelan, Fabio? MICHAEL WHELAN? Oh, Fabio, for shame.

By: Fábio

Fábio — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:52:08 +0000

“The Jewels of Aptor one is easy- Delany’s first published novel, I think. Or second. One of his firsts.”

I may be wrong, but I think The Jewels of Aptor is the second Delany published novel, the first being “They Fly, at Ciron”.

hmmm – Michael Whelan?

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:37:17 +0000

Nice try. LOL!

There’re actually lots of clues in the text, in a sense.

By: Caleb Wilson

Caleb Wilson — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:32:56 +0000

Charles Burns.

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:02:18 +0000

Well, remember, it’s someone primarily known as an artist. Since we’ve got until tomorrow the person who guesses right will get an advance copy of Life Sucks, the new graphic novel from First Second. Two guesses each, resetting from now, and the contest ends the minute the io9 column posts, whenever that is.

By: Lane

Lane — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:32:43 +0000

I very nearly said Michael Cisco meets Steve Erickson. A trick question? A collaboration between the two?