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Originally Posted by Nyssa
I LOVE this, and will try to picture him this way from now on (even though I really did like the nonexistent hat).
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Amazing what difference a misguided instruction can do. Would have never thought it is the same artist. Just as flexible as Jim Butcher himself. The covers with hat still look good, even though they have a hat which is not the artist's fault. They should have trusted him in first place ...
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Below Jim is talking about the Hat.
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Q: Why does Harry keep wearing a hat on the book covers, when in the text of the book Harry keeps talking about how he hates hats?
A: That didn’t really start until Book 8 or 9 or something like that, is when I started making that comment. It was because on Book 7 the Art Department decided that the perfect way to say “Wizard P.I.” was to have the guy with a wizard staff and a P.I. fedora. That it would be the perfect psychological shorthand for “Wizard P.I.” So they directed Chris McGrath to “make it like this.” And Chris, who is a professional artist said, “I will make it like that,” and did so, and fulfilled his commission.
And I didn’t like it. So I got all passive aggressive about it, and started making fun of hats in the books.
So when the new book came out, the steampunk book, Grimm is one of those characters that would never be caught dead without his hat. So of course they draw him with no hat.
From Q&A with Jim Butcher, Oct 7, 2015, Written By: David Hill
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