Talk:John Howe (illustrator)

Untitled
See my proposal at Talk:John Howe (disambiguation). Denishowe 22:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Lead and sections
The WP:LEAD includes too much. With few exceptions it should be summary in nature. Some of the current lead material may be worked into section Biography reasonably. Most biography articles use multiple sections with Biography, Life, and Early life common headings for the first one. --P64 (talk) 18:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Works
The US Library of Congress reports 16 catalog records for Howe. That is, 16 are linked to its main page for Howe.LC: John Howe In my experience this is incomplete for illustrators of books with text by an/other author/s; some records can be found only by title, keyword, or writer name.

The earliest holding is a 1983 edition of "The fisherman & his wife", translated into English from the Brothers Grimm version.
 * Howe was a Canadian citizen then (1984), LC reports.

That is one of five eds. published during the 1970s and 1980s with five illustrators and at least four translators (Howe's translator not identified). More recently there are three retold editions and a second edition of the Howe picture book (2001).

There is not much intersection of our 11 listings with those 16 LC catalog listings (which include some distinct editions). I will add "The Fisherman" and fix our listings for Rip Van Winkle and Jack and the Beanstalk, which must be later editions. Those are the three 1980s publication dates in LC catalog.LC: John Howe

--P64 (talk) 18:56, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * There are at least six more LC catalog records for titles not listed here, five from the 1990 and Beowulf 2007. Many of the later LC listings now have no bibliographic data, evidently because the library does not hold a copy.
 * LC catalog records that are complete: Fish Wife, Rip, Jack, Clément 1, Clément 2, Vespucci, Born of Elven Blood (not a picture book), Ywain, Beowulf
 * Those are eight children's picture books, plus one, 1983 to 2007. The first three 1983-89 are now listed here, and Ywain is listed here. One other title not listed here is identified in the catalog (no data, not in the collection): "Hobbit : a 3-D pop-up adventure / J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by John Howe ; [paper engineering by Andrew Baron]." 1997. --P64 (talk) 19:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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"fated" director?
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 * "For the The Hobbit films, original director Guillermo del Toro and fated director Peter Jackson both consulted with Howe..."

What is meant by "fated" here? I've not seen an expression of predestination used to refer to the actual director of a film before. If this isn't an idiom with which I'm unfamiliar, perhaps "replacement director" would be better? -Stelio (talk) 15:21, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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