Special Offer: Buy A Signed Connie Toebe Print

As the auction winds down, we thought it would be nice to end with a special offer. Artist Connie Toebe, who donated the wonderful box art based on The Child Empress of Mars, is a long-time friend of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and of Interfictions. Her art (titled: Moonlight) graces the cover of the first Interfictions volume, and we have some signed prints of this art in our possession.

There are five 11 x 17 prints available for sale for $25 each. (Click the image to enlarge.)

Auction #15: The Child-Empress of Mars Dreams

I’ve been a big fan of Dora Goss from way back. I just loved her stories in “The Forest of Forgetting”. Her work just seemed to have an affinity to my dioramas. As soon as I heard she had a story in Interfictions 2 I signed on to do a piece based on it, sight unseen. I couldn’t have picked better if I had tried! The wonderful Jules Verne-esque story (from the other point of view) worked perfectly with the Victorian imagery I use. I also liked the sense of exploration and discovery that you find in period magazines and in fact used some for the foreground and background of the box. I decided to create a scene that didn’t show the Martians as they are alien. Instead, I found an old hero (from a 1901 volume of the London Illustrated News) and put him in the sky as the Empress dreams her new word. I hope the gentleman pictured would be pleased.

Connie Toebe