[net.sf-lovers] Models for illustrations of Cirocco in TITAN

keesan@BBNCCI.ARPA (08/15/84)

From:  Morris M. Keesan <keesan@BBNCCI.ARPA>

    Someone in a recent issue of SF-LOVERS commented that the
illustrations of Cirocco in Varley's TITAN looked a lot like Cher, and
wondered whether the author or artist had intended this.  I wrote to
Freff, the artist, asking him about this.  His response was,
"Interesting notion, Cher...but nothing that Varley ever said to me or
that I ever thought."  He goes on to say that Cirocco as drawn was
modeled on two people, one whom he was visiting while reading the
manuscript, "and aside from hair and skin color her features were an
exact match for Varley's description."  The other, the model for the
body, was "the only six foot tall, slinky, essentially flat-chested
ex-ballet dancer" he knew.