1989 was the year of undersea movies. The Abyss, Deep Star Six, Leviathan, and then a few others came out in 1990 if I remember. Most were forgettable.

Anyhow, I always had a fascination with deep sea exploration. Probably because the first set of books I remember as a child (yeah, for the pretty pictures) was my parents' collection of 'The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau'. I vividly remember the checkerboard undersea habitats the divers stayed in during a few experiments.

So when it came time to do a cover for Mythagoras, all of that somehow spilled onto the paper. It's shoddy, but it's sixteen years old.

Amusingly, the undersea 'buoy' was derived from a sketch I had made from a photograph of a Soviet oceanography satellite at work (I was working for Lockheed at the time).

I probably could have gotten in trouble at the time if anyone specializing in Soviet 'black object' satellites had gotten a look at this cover and recognized it beneath the different paint job and added doohickeys.

This was done in two layers on some type of texture paper (coquille? I don't know, haven't used the stuff in over a decade). It's far, far, far from my best work, but I still like the movement in it and the overall layout and concept.