Different DTVII Artist's editions

BevVincent

There's a discussion over in alt.books.stephen-king about some little sketches Michael Whelan did in some of the DTVII AEs, apart from the 19 full-page sketches sold via the glass onion site:

Just got off the phone with Audrey Whelan at Glass Onion. She said that while

Michael was signing the 5000 Artist Edition signature pages he did a little

drawing once about every 50 pages. The small drawing is either an "eye" or a

stylized "KT" or "KA" (she wasn't sure) which is a symbol (she thinks) for

Ka-tet. They were done quickly and without much detail. She says he probably did

it out of boredom. There may also be a couple of other "doodles" on two other

pages but she didn't have further details.



It seems to me that it could also have been his way of marking progress since he

did them on a somewhat regular basis.



A couple of interesting notes: On one of the signature pages for the signed

limited edition of 1500 King signed as "Michael Whelan". When Michael Whelan saw

this he followed suit and signed as "Stephen King". That one is an instant

collector's item, IMO.

Thanks to Bob Jackson for posting this in Usenet.



(Hope you don't mind me cross-posting this here, Bev)



HBJ

BevVincent

Not at all -- Bob J.'s a good buddy o'mine.