The Blue Girl - Cliff Nielsen

The Blue Girl
Cover of the book "The Blue Girl" be Charles DeLint. Illustration by Cliff Nielsen

Is it wrong that I haven't read the book? It sounds great - punk chick gone good meets straight chick going bad. Angry fairies, a teenage ghost, and an imaginary friend. Great mix, right? Well, the cover art for this book is fantastic in it's own right.

I gotta admit I'm a sucker for striped stockings, and plaid skirts. So take my opinion with a grain of salt when I say this is a masterpiece of shade and style. Crouching shadows sneaking up on a seemingly dazed or drunken girl? Priceless.

The Blue Girl - Max Gregor

The Blue Girl

by Max Gregor

Illustrationweb.com has a great write-up of this artist. He's kind of like a comic book artist with inclinations towards commercialistic realism. Don't let the description fool you - I don't mean it in a pejorative way. Far from it. He's got a lot of wicked coalitions of styles. Forbidden Motions is another favorite of mine. (You can view Forbidden Motions at the Illustrationweb.com site).

The Blue Girl is a great combine of blue and purple (ahhh, for more purple chicks). It's warm in a cold way - and the Girl exudes that in spades.

Gregor gets a highly recommended in general, but this is his finest work, in my OSH opinion.