This is my cover painting for John McNichol's The Emperor of North America, book two of the Young Chesterton Chronicles. It'll be hitting the shelves this fall, published by Bezalel Books. For those of you not familiar with the series, it's steampunk alternate-history with authors G.K. Chesterton and H.G. Wells as the main characters. In book one, The Tripods Attack! (published by Sophia Institute Press), Gil and Herb fought off a Martian invasion, assisted by Father Brown (from Chesterton's mystery stories); the second book has got flying assassins, steam-powered cyborg cowboys, zeppelins, and a flying city (home of Emperor Norton I).
The painting is acrylic on mat board, 13 1/4" x 17 3/8".
