{"id":470,"date":"2006-07-31T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/07\/31\/r-i-p-david-gemmell\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:50:15","slug":"r-i-p-david-gemmell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/07\/31\/r-i-p-david-gemmell\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. David Gemmell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was really saddened to hear the news of David Gemmell\u2019s passing a few days ago. The folks at Ballantine\/Del Rey approached me a few years ago and asked me to do a cover for a U.S. mass market paperback edition of Gemmell\u2019s ECHOES OF THE GREAT SONG. They wanted a more modern graphic approach for his U.S. editions and at the time, I was incorporating a lot of photography in my finished mixed-media works. They liked this, and they liked that cover, and it led to several other Gemmell covers for me. I think I liked the cover for LEGEND the most (pictured here). These days, I don\u2019t favor using much photography in my finished works anymore, but I still like this one. For many Gemmell fans, this is one of his most-beloved works, and I\u2019m glad I was a part of its tradition. \n

I met David and his wife Stella at San Diego Comic-Con a few years back. He was big and gracious, and he made time for everyone that day. It\u2019s the only time I ever had the pleasure to spend time with him, but I\u2019m glad that he left such a legacy of beloved works for generations to enjoy. Condolences to David\u2019s family and all associated with him over at Ballantine\/Del Rey.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was really saddened to hear the news of David Gemmell\u2019s passing a few days ago. The folks at Ballantine\/Del Rey approached me a few years ago and asked me to do a cover for a U.S. mass market paperback edition of Gemmell\u2019s ECHOES OF THE GREAT SONG. They wanted a more modern graphic approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-7A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}