HOMAGE An allusion or imitation by one artist to another. In 2020 Véhicule Press of Canada published under the imprint Ricochet Books ‘The Ravine’ by Phyllis Brett Young. They used the same artwork as the PAN edition and mention the cover was adapted by J W Stewart but not that the original was by Pat Owen whose signature is at the bottom right. The PAN edition G663 has the author as Kendal Young while the Ricochet edition uses her real name. PAN published three other titles by Young. There appears to be two variants , one with the extra writing as on the PAN edition and one without.
PASTICHE An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. TV/Film extra of more that 2,000 appearances, John R Walker, has written several books and uses a style of cover similar to other publishers. The one I noticed was ‘Dial Extra for Murder’ from 2023 which is a pastiche of PAN. He also used Target and Coronet for other titles. He was voted ‘Britain’s Most Prolific Television Extra’ in 2013 and has been an extra for over 15 years so watch out Jules. He now works as 1st Assistant Director at the BBC.
PAN published the ‘Avaryan Rising’ trio by Judith Tarr all with artwork by different artists namely Peter Mennim, Patrick Jones and Fred Gambino. I like the artwork but not they are in B format which doesn’t look right on the shelf with all the other titles. Tarr also wrote three more titles to make it six in the trio namely ‘Arrows of the Sun‘. ‘Spear of Heaven‘ and ‘Tides of Darkness’
