I first stumbled across Steven Gettis’ Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures site around mid-2000. I was trapped in a poisonous business partnership and was swimming in frustration caused by a not-zippy-enough career in comics illustration.

I was tickled by Steven’s idea though, which is in a nutshell, a website where comic artists contribute portraits of either: a) their favorite author or b) their favorite hero of fiction. So I contacted Steven and proceeded to make this.

When Steven turned up out of the blue recently asking if I’d like to do another, I briefly considered contributing my favorite author Jorge Luis Borges, but ultimately couldn’t resist doing a reinterpretation of Paul Muad’dib, lovingly crafted with 5 additional years experience and (one hopes) skill.

Same time in 2010 Steve…?

NOTE: This is a digital snap of the drawing — all I was able to get since I finished it at a con. Hi-res scan to follow soon.

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