Recycled Cover Art?

Lost Heretic · Post by **Lost Heretic** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:15 pm

I just stumbled onto this today and I'm real confused...

Van Richten's Guide to Vampires

Isaac Asimov's Vampires

Den Beauvais's website has information on the Asimov novel, but not a thing on Ravenloft. He had been commissioned by TSR previously.

Joël of the FoS · Post by **Joël of the FoS** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:22 pm

Interesting, indeed!

cure · Post by **cure** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:54 pm

Perhaps the Dread Elf Pirate of Lake Baratok wasn't available for a photoshot.

LadySoth · Post by **LadySoth** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:59 pm

cure wrote:Perhaps the Dread Elf Pirate of Lake Baratok wasn't available for a photoshot.

Brilliant.

The publisher probably did a random search of the company archives and came up with that pic for "vampire," wonder what the year on the Asimov book was?

Mouseferatu · Post by **Mouseferatu** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:05 am

Well, I know that in the RPG industry it's not too uncommon for some artists to retain the rights to their work. They can then, after a certain amount of time, sell/license them to someone else as a "second use" piece.

Not all companies allow it, and not all artists have the option, but it does happen (and I think it used to happen more often than it does today).

HuManBing · Post by **HuManBing** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:02 pm

^ interesting - that would explain why older book covers often have "lookalikes" elsewhere in the industry.

I remember a few examples of that from the 1980s and earlier. Books where the key art seemed derived from another.

Jester of the FoS · Post by **Jester of the FoS** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:43 pm

A quick google search suggests Isaac Asimov's Vampires came out in 1996, four years after VRG to Vampires. It appears the author retained the rights and sold it again.

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Recycled Cover Art?

Recycled Cover Art?