Levitation Poster
11 x 17 color poster. The details on the project from Jim Ottaviani -
Around 2005 or so, our mutual friend and terrific artist Janine Johnston and I were working on a book together about stage magic — specifically a famous levitation illusion that many of the biggest names in magic history had a hand in creating — as part of a series of graphic novels I wanted to do about the science of the unscientific.(It ended up being a short series: Wire Mothers, with Dylan Meconis about research into love, and this one, Levitation, about the physics and psychology of magic. Large NYC-based publishing houses had noticed the books I’d done by the time these two came out in 2007 and so these were the last books I self-published. At least as of today, anyway.) I wanted something to give away at shows and conventions to support the book(s), and the Clarke quote kept coming to mind as I thought about what might capture the imagination of potential readers of the book I did with Janine. And while I don’t remember the exact circumstances of contacting you, it might have been she who suggested I do so and gave me your contact information. How could I say no to that? We agreed you’d be just the right person to create an image that captured that quote. And, to nobody’s surprise, you were! The process of making the poster was fun, at least for me. I think we iterated through a sketch or two — and again, if I recall correctly we had some back-and-forth on the color to make sure that we got the right balance of the real and the mystical — but it didn’t take long to arrive at the image on that poster. I can’t remember how many I printed, but I only have a file copy left for myself. So, people loved it. I sure did, and still do!
11 x 17 color poster. The details on the project from Jim Ottaviani -
Around 2005 or so, our mutual friend and terrific artist Janine Johnston and I were working on a book together about stage magic — specifically a famous levitation illusion that many of the biggest names in magic history had a hand in creating — as part of a series of graphic novels I wanted to do about the science of the unscientific.(It ended up being a short series: Wire Mothers, with Dylan Meconis about research into love, and this one, Levitation, about the physics and psychology of magic. Large NYC-based publishing houses had noticed the books I’d done by the time these two came out in 2007 and so these were the last books I self-published. At least as of today, anyway.) I wanted something to give away at shows and conventions to support the book(s), and the Clarke quote kept coming to mind as I thought about what might capture the imagination of potential readers of the book I did with Janine. And while I don’t remember the exact circumstances of contacting you, it might have been she who suggested I do so and gave me your contact information. How could I say no to that? We agreed you’d be just the right person to create an image that captured that quote. And, to nobody’s surprise, you were! The process of making the poster was fun, at least for me. I think we iterated through a sketch or two — and again, if I recall correctly we had some back-and-forth on the color to make sure that we got the right balance of the real and the mystical — but it didn’t take long to arrive at the image on that poster. I can’t remember how many I printed, but I only have a file copy left for myself. So, people loved it. I sure did, and still do!
11 x 17 color poster. The details on the project from Jim Ottaviani -
Around 2005 or so, our mutual friend and terrific artist Janine Johnston and I were working on a book together about stage magic — specifically a famous levitation illusion that many of the biggest names in magic history had a hand in creating — as part of a series of graphic novels I wanted to do about the science of the unscientific.(It ended up being a short series: Wire Mothers, with Dylan Meconis about research into love, and this one, Levitation, about the physics and psychology of magic. Large NYC-based publishing houses had noticed the books I’d done by the time these two came out in 2007 and so these were the last books I self-published. At least as of today, anyway.) I wanted something to give away at shows and conventions to support the book(s), and the Clarke quote kept coming to mind as I thought about what might capture the imagination of potential readers of the book I did with Janine. And while I don’t remember the exact circumstances of contacting you, it might have been she who suggested I do so and gave me your contact information. How could I say no to that? We agreed you’d be just the right person to create an image that captured that quote. And, to nobody’s surprise, you were! The process of making the poster was fun, at least for me. I think we iterated through a sketch or two — and again, if I recall correctly we had some back-and-forth on the color to make sure that we got the right balance of the real and the mystical — but it didn’t take long to arrive at the image on that poster. I can’t remember how many I printed, but I only have a file copy left for myself. So, people loved it. I sure did, and still do!