LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S ART PRINTS: HIDEMI KUBO'S ORIGINAL 1979 CHARACTER CONCEPT PAINTINGS FOR THE ANIMATED LAST UNICORN

Price $75.00 per set (only 44 full sets remaining from the original 500-set limited edition run)  Available now. Each print is 8.5" x 11" and signed on the back by Peter S. Beagle. Click the images below to see expanded close-ups (please note: the actual prints are sharper than the close-up images, because they are higher-resolution than your computer monitor).

 Kubo's Last Unicorn

 Kubo's Lady Amalthea

 Kubo's Mommy Fortuna

 Kubo's Red Bull

 Kubo's Full Cast Line-Up

In 1979, Rankin-Bass started work on an animated version of The Last Unicorn. They hired American artists to design the characters and "look" of the film, and Japanese animators to actually make everything come to life. But when the American character designs were delivered to Japan the animators weren't happy with them, and decided to offer up some alternatives instead.

The paintings in this set, all by chief animator Hidemi Kubo, were the result. See for yourself which character designs made the cut, which were discarded, and which wound up being a combination of both Japanese and American influences!

No one in the United States knew these images even existed until late 2006, when they were discovered by Austin-based animator, anime voiceover artist, and Last Unicorn fan Samantha Inoue-Harte. Once she made us aware of them, we knew they had to be shared with the world, and promptly made arrangements with the rightsowners to release a limited edition of 500 sets of signed-and-numbered art prints.

This edition premiered at A-Kon 2007 in Dallas, and was shown again at Anime Expo in Long Beach, Otakon in Baltimore, and DragonCon in Atlanta. There are now only enough prints left to sell 132 complete sets. After those are gone there will be no more. (Some individual prints of the Red Bull, Mommy Fortuna, and the Lady Amalthea will still be available after that, at $20 apiece, but once the sets are all sold there will be no more Last Unicorn or Full Cast Line-Up prints to be had.)

Yes, I would like to get The Hidemi Kubo Last Unicorn Set.

Price $10.00  10 image-download. Available now.

We've been raving about Rebekah Naomi Cox's artwork since we first saw it, and with good reason. (For the complete story of how Rebekah and Peter met, click here. It's pretty amazing.)

We are therefore incredibly pleased to offer Rebekah's exquisite creations for your computer desktop, sized to perfectly fit your monitor's resolution. This set was the very first commercial release of any of Rebekah's art, but it certainly won't be her last — in fact, one of these images (Moon Unicon) is now the cover on the new Italian edition of The Last Unicorn, and another (The Unicorn Lived in a Lilac Wood) is actually going to be the wraparound cover on the new 40th Anniversary Edition American trade paperback. Wow!

Here are the images in the set. Click on any of them to see a larger version.

The Unicorn Lived in a Lilac Wood

The Last Unicorn

Prince Lir Writing Poetry

The Harpy Celaeno

Molly Grue

How Dare You Come to Me Now, When I Am This?

The Lady Amalthea

The Red Bull

Moon Unicorn

Last Unicorn Close-Up

According to Peter, Rebekah has come closer than anyone else to capturing "the unicorn that was in my head as I wrote." So why not enjoy her astonishing work for yourself?

And for those of you who didn't already know, Rebekah, who is entirely self-taught, made the pictures in this first set when she was just 17 years old (she's 20 now). On her computer. Drawing with a mouse, and using a cheap $25 paint utility instead of a real graphics program.

Like we said, amazing. And so she is. You can tell that just by looking into her eyes.

Yes, I would like to get Rebekah Naomi Cox's Last Unicorn Wallpaper Set.