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Akard Drearstone. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Lead guitarist and lyric writer for the Akard Drearstone Group |
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Harley Krishna. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Keyboardist for the Akard Drearstone Group |
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Jim Piston. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Narcissistic, paranoid bass guitarist for the Akard Drearstone Group |
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Pete Sponge. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Drummer for the Akard Drearstone Group |
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Harray Andreall. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Akard Drearstone Group manager for Freeway Accident Records |
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Mavory Deltrang. Minor digital edit of 1976 watercolor, 2017
Beer distributor and co-owner of Freeway Accident Records |
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Ted Pace. Digital experiment with 1976 watercolor, 2017
Architect and president of Freeway Accident Records |
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Akard/Gaspar, or, The Gaspar Room of the Dreams: A Photograph of “Katy Regan Journa,” “Akard Drearstone,” “Jim Piston,” and “Pete Sponge,” Taken by “Harley Krishna.” Acrylic on canvas, 1993. 62” x 74”
Painted during the 1993-1994 overhaul of the novel |
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Kevin Stukia. Pencil on paper, 2017. 11″ x 8.5″
Bombastic Ungodly Procreative New Jersey Suburbs Music Magazine reporter |
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Akard Drearstone – The Album Cover by Jan Pace. Digital image, 2017
Twelve-year-old Jan Pace, one of the novel’s central characters if not the central character, painted the cover of the album Akard Drearstone, released October 1975 in the novel. This image is an edited scan of the cover of the 1974 200-Page Wiess Crack. |
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Early Akard Drearstone Cover. 2012
Cover for the 2012 draft, which at the time I assumed was the final manuscript |
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Akard Drearstone Draft Cover. 2017
But I never seriously considered this series of draft covers, based on a 1983 photograph. |
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The Akard Drearstone Tarot Card. 2015
I also used this as the cover for an EPUB of the novel’s infamous 1976-1978 rough draft. |
All words and images copyright by Michael D. Smith