If you have read 1973’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon then you’ll know that a colossal amount of incidents occur. I mean, even trying to sum up one main storyline is risky.

That’s one of the reasons why I always thought that the V2 rockets that illustrate the great majority of the book covers developed for this novel, although iconic, failed to properly convey the novel’s chaotic, sometimes funny sometimes scary sometimes disturbing sometimes genius, spirit. Then again, such task is probably impossible. But the effort propelled me to get this piece done.

So the concept here was to illustrate stand-out episodes from the fat novel in cartoonish near-childish manner, full of bright colors and fixed perspectives, repetitive imagery and cold-cut black-outlined shapes. So yes, I drifted away from a pastel-toned “classy” approach and went for the offensive. Sorry.