Nemo's Daughter Bookcover

A while back I completed a painting entitled "Nemo's Daughter". I decided to design a bookcover using the image. Now I just have to write it and get it published.

Nemo's Daughter

A painting that I finished a while ago, that is in the "Nemo" theme. I always thought that Nemo should have a daughter. In the otherwise execrable 1997 version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo (Michael Caine) does have one, (Mia Sara) and I liked how it played. The painting is my own version of what she might look like. Oddly enough the latest issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1910 largely concerns the death of Nemo and the reluctant succession of his daughter as captain of the Nautilus.

20,000 Leagues

I have always been a big fan of Disney's 1954 film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I don't think there have been any subsequent versions that can touch it in terms of performance; James Mason's elegant and tortured Nemo, or in terms of production design; Harper Goff's design for the Nautilus is still a marvel 55 years later. I was able to see a technicolor print of the movie on the big screen at the Harvard Film Archive last year, and it still holds up remarkably well. My obsession with this movie finds its way into sketches, doodles and an occasional painting. Here is a color sketch that I did recently of Nemo on the Nautilus. It might end up as a painting someday.