I was commissioned to do this piece for an SF tarot deck by a fan named Bruce Pelz. He commissioned one artist per card, so you can guess that a lot of artists were involved in the project. It took Bruce years to finish it. I think the deck only came out, finally, in 1984. By that time I knew I could have done better than this.

Bruce paid not only for the rights, but the original too. I then made a second copy from scratch, for my own collection. I remember too being a little irritated that better known artists were paid more for their work than I was. I've no hard figures though, and don't know who was
paid more and who might have been paid less even. In retrospect it doesn't seem to have been quite as much an assault on my ego as it did then. I scanned the card rather than my oriignal, so the colours are a little murkey and you can make out the benday. What surprised me about the job was than nobody had snapped up the magician yet, even though I was far from the first asked to pick.

As you can see, I've been doing my signature "Kjola" for a very long time.