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Terry Fan

Just got the fully-bound final proof of this thing, and here is what it looks like.

This illustration is available as a 12 by 18 inch screenprint in white ink on black paper, through the Moby-Dick illustrated Kickstarter! Probably my favorite illustration of the series??

Just a few days left on my Moby-Dick illustrated Kickstarter! I wanted to post some examples of the many many other people who have illustrated Moby-Dick in whole or in part; here are a bunch I have found and liked. Artists listed here in order of illustrations:

A. Burnham Shute was, as far as I can tell, the first illustrator of the novel, in an 1892 edition 41 years after its original publication.

Rockwell Kent produced over 100 ink illustrations for the 1920s edition of Moby-Dick that is considered the beginning of its wider appreciation. Really incredible work. Editions with Kent’s illustrations are still easy to find.

Raymond Bishop illustrated an edition in 1930 with woodcuts.

Anton Otto Fischer illustrated an edition in color and black and white in the 1930s.

Robert Shore illustrated an edition in the 60s. Black and white frantic, messy imagery. Really love these.

Mead Schaeffer illustrated an edition in the 70s, I think? All in color.

Barry Moser did a series of woodcuts for an edition by Arion Press in 1979. All handset type and two-color printing; beautiful edition.

Matt Kish drew a different illustration for every single page of Moby-Dick in 2015. Disorienting, psychedelic stuff. He did the same with Heart of Darkness in 2012.

Here’s a full spread of all of the illustrations from the climactic sequence, ending with the two-page image of Moby Dick charging the ship. Titles below, taken from the text:

- Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death!

- There she blows!

- Slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within its mouth.

- This breaching is his act of defiance.

- This whole act’s immutably decreed.

- Aye, and thou goest before.

- Possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven.

Oh this submission is a beauty! 

I’m on track to resume this thing, after a couple months juggling other things. Here’s a recap of some of my favorite illustrations so far!! Aiming for a new one this week; we’ll see…