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Out and About

Or There and Back Again (Again) Just returned from a bit of a safari to rather colder climes, which made returning to Switzerland feel positively springlike. After several amusing episodes involving visas and border guards, missed planes and queueing in consulates,...

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Images of Middle Earth

The poster collection Images of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is scheduled for reprinting I’ve just received news from HarperCollinsPublishers that the long-out-of-print and much-sought-after poster collection (by me too; I don’t have any left myself!) will be reprinted in...

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There and Back Again

John’s Big Day Out… or a Few Days in Middle-Earth. Just returned from New Zealand. Had a free day in Wellington, and the privilege of seeing the Lord of the Rings Exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand. (Unless my memory is totally shot, “Te Papa...

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Totally Forgot To Mention

MYTH & MAGIC, THE ART OF JOHN HOWE HarperCollinsPublishers, London This book of my work was published in the autumn of 2001, but has not been available in the U.S. You can now find it in the pages of the Lord of the Rings Fan Club Official Movie Magazine or you...

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No News Is Good News

Perhaps I have gravely underestimated the excitement in the life of the basic illustrator. A week’s water under the bridge, and not many ripples or eddies to show for it… Here goes anyway… On the Drawing Board… Just putting the finishing touches to the final images of...

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News

Or the Foolhardy and Resolutely Ambitious Weekly Chronicle of an Illustrator’s Progress Welcome to the news module. This is my very first attempt at doing this sort of thing; you’ll have to bear with me. Hopefully, this will be a chapter I can update constantly, not...

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