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Nigel is already beating a path to the door, chequebook in hand.pete9012S wrote: A new voluptuous cover that united these two giants of Enid Blyton Famous Five illustrations throughout the decades might sway the hoards of Betty Maxey followers to check out your book???
Lucky Star wrote:
Nigel is already beating a path to the door, chequebook in hand.
... to pay you anything - anything you want, Pete - NOT to do it.Lucky Star wrote:Nigel is already beating a path to the door, chequebook in hand.pete9012S wrote: A new voluptuous cover that united these two giants of Enid Blyton Famous Five illustrations throughout the decades might sway the hoards of Betty Maxey followers to check out your book???
pete9012S wrote:Enikyoga wrote:
Very true Stephen.
It was a flash of genius perhaps even akin to Uncle Quentin's marvellous Sko Wheel.
I don't know what your stance on Betty Maxey is,but I do know you are fair and impartial on most things.
A new voluptuous cover that united these two giants of Enid Blyton Famous Five illustrations throughout the decades might sway the hoards of Betty Maxey followers to check out your book???
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Thanks for appreciating Betty's work Stephen.It does put you in the minority with me though!Enikyoga wrote:This is not to say that Betty Maxey did not have good illustrations i.e. such as..... Maggie and her partner in Five On A Hike Together (the two looked hip for the 1970s era in this book..).
Stephen I.
Pete, still I think the Betty Maxey illustration is better
My apologies, I meant to say, "Pete, I still think the Eileen Soper illustration is better." Maybe this is the effect of some health ailments I have recently suffered from. I have since corrected this error.The advice of proofreading one's stuff thoroughly is well taken in this aspect. Once again, my apologies!!!Enikyoga wrote:Pete, I still think the Eileen Soper illustration is better. The way George and Timmy jump out in the Eileen Soper illustration is very dramatic in contra-distinction with Betty Maxey's that has no action of any sort. In addition, putting the two illustrations, side-by-side would put off many readers or a potential of them...As you may recall, in his book, The Famous Five: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know, Norman Wright also used Eileen Soper's illustrations as opposed to those of Maxey. It would seem that there is something both classy and classic about Soper's illustrations as being deemed to be the authentic and official pictorial depictions of The Famous Five. This is not to say that Betty Maxey did not have good illustrations i.e. such as those depicting Timmy in Five Go To Demon's Rocks as well as Maggie and her partner in Five On A Hike Together (the two looked hip for the 1970s era in this book; maybe that is one of the reasons why Maxey's illustrations replaced those of Soper).pete9012S wrote:Enikyoga wrote:
Very true Stephen.
It was a flash of genius perhaps even akin to Uncle Quentin's marvellous Sko Wheel.
I don't know what your stance on Betty Maxey is,but I do know you are fair and impartial on most things.
A new voluptuous cover that united these two giants of Enid Blyton Famous Five illustrations throughout the decades might sway the hoards of Betty Maxey followers to check out your book???
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Stephen I.
.Moonraker wrote:But Stephen said he preferred Maxey's....
Pete, I still think the Eileen Soper illustration is better
