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Mud Wizard Bob

Art of the mud plains

Covers and studies from the series, in its Studio-Ghibli-inspired style.

  • Sleeping Darkness cover: Bob and George on the mud plains under a teal sky

    Sleeping Darkness — Book One cover

  • Bob reading in an armchair while George sleeps at his feet

    The reader and the sleeper

  • Bob reading in a cosy armchair with George dozing beside him — cover variant

    Cover study — armchair variant

  • Bob in a wizard hat sits with George by a campfire at sunset while a shadowy monster looms behind the hill

    Campfire at dusk — early cover art

  • Early series cover: a scruffy Bob and George the golden retriever in front of a clawfoot bathtub

    Where it all began — early cover

  • Ink-wash scene of Bob reading in a tree while a wild boar charges through the rainy forest below

    The boar — Sleeping Darkness study

  • Book One cover concept: Bob and George beneath the title lettering

    Book One — early concept