Previous SFF Author: Jessica Brody
(1965- )
Gerald Brom began his career as an illustrater for TSR’s Dark Sun role-playing world. Since then he has illustrated many novels, games, comics and film, including World of Warcraft, Magic the Gathering, Diablo, Doom, Batman, Galaxy Quest and Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. He has written two award-winning illustrated horror novels: The Plucker and The Devil’s Rose. He lives in Seattle. Here’s his website.
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The Child Thief by Gerald Brom
The Child Thief is one in a long line of novels, graphic novels, films, and cartoons concerned with giving “gritty retellings” of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, or to give that book its original name and set it apart from the play, Peter and Wendy. The phenomenon of taking an innocent old classic and muddying it up is and has been fairly widespread, but Peter and Wendy is particularly popular because it was arguably gritty enough from the start,
Tim Scheidler´s rating: 4 | Gerald Brom | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
If you’ve seen any buzz about author/illustrator Brom’s newest novel, Lost Gods (2016), in which the words “Dante” or “Inferno” are heavily featured, I’d advise you to read that buzz with a pinch of salt; to rely on the similarities between Lost Gods and Inferno is to neglect the breadth and depth of Brom’s creativity and imagination, and I would sorely hate to see this level of world-building and inspiration reduced to the bare-bones concept of “guy goes to Hell” when there’s so much more presented here.
Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Gerald Brom | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The April 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy is identified as a “Special Dark Fantasy Issue.” The nifty cover illustration by Brom fits the theme perfectly. And there’s lots more Brom inside, including an interview by Karen Haber and a considerable number of examples of his work. This is a man who must use up his blue, gray, red and black paints with considerable speed — but he never seems to use up his imagination.
The best story in this issue is about the Cthulhu Mythos, which has really been enjoying a renaissance these days.
Previous SFF Author: Jessica Brody
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No doubt about it--I have to read these.