The Afterlife
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The original art for Attaché
I'm often asked to work on projects with historical themes, and over the years some of those have developed a history of their own. Today, I received an e-mail from Justin Catanoso, the author of My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles, whose original article I created this portrait for in 2004, through Holly Holiday at Attaché Magazine. In the intervening years, he developed that article into a book, recently released by Harper Collins, and art director James Iacobelli chose to use my art for the cover as well. Apparently it was that cover that caught the eye of Christopher Schoppa at the Washington Post, who yesterday penned his own article titled "What You See Is What You Get: Judging Five Books by Their Cover". I was surprised to see that among the five, mine was the only one with an illustrated cover—and that three of the others had photos of dogs on them (do I detect a bias there?).
