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Paul Kidby is an English artist. Many people know him best for his art based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld. He has been included on the sleeve covers since Pratchett's original illustrator, Josh Kirby, died in 2001.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that three eyed ear beak snake dragonfly thing something from the books? Doesn't ring a bell.

[–] justlookingfordragon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in case you mean the "thing" in the lower left corner of the second pic, that's Errol, Lady Sybil's pet swamp dragon. What looks like facetted eyes & an insect "trunk" in the slightly blurry pic is actually a snout with giant nostrils.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I meant the more snake shaped one that's close to the hat on the other side of the luggage.

I had actually forgotten who exactly Errol was, just that I've seen him before. Thank you.

[–] justlookingfordragon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don't really know which one you mean, but I found a much clearer, "updated" version of this picture (with more characters) and the maching "key" for it, naming all displayed characters:. I guess that will be more useful in the long run ;)

Link: https://lemmy.world/post/7931146

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://abload.de/img/finalkeyc3c5s.jpg

"5. Expletive D*****"

Still don't know more and neither do search engines.

[–] justlookingfordragon 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh, NOW I know which one you mean! That's one of the swearwords of Mustrum Ridcully come to life along with no. 11 and 12 ^^