Sweet Jules Verne covers

Jim Tierney, an illustrator studying at UArts in Philadelphia, produced some extremely wonderful Jules Verne cover-art for his senior thesis. I say give him a sheepskin!

Jules Verne sketches part 1 (via Super Punch)

• [oheso]

  The original Nautilus (as written by Verne, that is) was electrically powered, extracting sodium from the sea for the sodium/mercury batteries.

  And he made a very slight error in his calculations, to boot.

• [Anonymous]

  I enjoyed Verne’s books as a kid, but recently tried to re-read Journey to the Centre of the Earth and couldn’t finish it. The science gaffs weren’t what did it. After all, it was early science fiction and science was still in its infancy. What bothered me was Verne’s arrogance and prejudices.

• [michaeleugene]

  yeah, jim’s work is great. he’s on the same illustration blog that i’m apart of.

  here’s a link to some more detailed views of jim’s printed covers:

  http://ohger.com/jimtierney/?article_id=8879

  • [Tdawwg]

    Wow, those are great, particularly his use of the jacket overlaid with the designs on the book proper. Best of all is they don’t rip off the Penguin trademark, unlike the one above: epic win.

• [DoktorFaustus]

  If a league is approximately 3 miles, and earth’s diameter is 7,926.28 miles, then 20,000 leagues under the sea (20,000 x 3 = 60,000 miles) would be in space.

• [Anonymous]

  hey guys, you should just know that these are only very rough sketches, which look nothing like my finalized versions, which can be seen here:
  http://www.jimtierneyart.com/covers.html
  thanks :)

• [Anonymous]

  It’s the distance travelled UNDER the sea — nearly 60,000 miles — a testament to nuclear power.

  • [Anonymous]

    a testament to nuclear power

    Which, of course, wasn’t discovered (and hence not written about by anyone) until long after the book’s publication…