P is for Pete’s Dragon Back to Disney in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge — and this time we get two movies for the price of one! Let’s take a look at Pete’s Dragon, both the original 1977 version, and the recent 2016 remake. That is an epic design by a favorite creator of mine, U.K. professional artist…
O is for Ōkami Another video game arrives in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge! This time, we’ll look at Ōkami, a beautiful game that won IGN’s 2006 Game of the Year. This is Ōkami – Yamata no Orochi, a lovely interpretation of the prologue of the game by Dutch deviantartist Caroline Lahaise, posting as Vyrilien. Go check out more of…
N is for Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu by LEGO On to the next fandom in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge! I think everyone — from the young to the young at heart — enjoys Legos, and when you combine Lego with mystical ninjas and awesome elemental dragons, you get Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu! According to the Wikipedia articles for the…
M is for Mulan Halfway done with the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge! Today let’s take a look at another Disney lizard dragon, the very funny Mushu from the 1998 animated movie Mulan. Hey, dragon, dragon, not lizard. I don’t do that tongue thing. –Mushu That’s just one of the many funny lines actor Eddie Murphy delivers as the voice…
L is for The Last of the Dragons Up next in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, I’m happy to share a really sweet story called The Last of the Dragons by English author and poet Edith Nesbit, originally published in 1925. That is the cover of The Last of the Dragons by Edith Nesbit, with art by Peter…
K is for King’s Quest Continuing on in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, let’s revisit a computer (and later console) video game franchise that I haven’t thought of in years — the King’s Quest series. The Green Dragon guarding a magic mirror above is from the 1990 EGA-graphics remake of King’s Quest I: Quest for the Crown, which…
I is for The Inheritance Cycle We’re about a third of the way done with the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, so let’s keep this dragon train going! While I myself never read the Inheritance Cycle books written by Chistopher Paolini, I certainly recognize their position in the YA fandom. I just loved this image of Eragon and Saphira by…
H is for How to Train Your Dragon Next up in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, I’m excited to share another one of my favorite fandoms — the Disney animated How to Train Your Dragon, which is loosely based on the original YA books by Cressida Cowell. To keep this post manageable, I’m only going to be featuring art from the…
E is for EverQuest Up next in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, I thought I would keep it simple and focus on some amazing dragon artwork from the EverQuest fandom. EverQuest is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (“MMORPG”), originally released in 1999 by Sony Online Entertainment. It was “the second commercially viable MMORPG to be released … and the first…
D is for Dragonriders of Pern Continuing the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, I’m going back to one of my absolute favorite series, and in all likelihood the reason I’m writing my own dragon novels: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern. The Dragonriders of Pern is the title of the omnibus edition published in 1978 of the combined…
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