Merci beaucoup to Rick Griffin for this Iron Artist submission. See the original IA submissions here - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10992535/

One of the challenges in writing is in setting the tone of the story. The structure of your sentence needs to be weighed just as heavily as your vocabulary. Part of the reason that I jumped at the opportunity to commission these specific pictures from Rick (you know, aside from the fact that he's a great artist and I've been wanting to extend my patronage to him for many a year) is because this IA was to be done entirely in black and white, which does a spectacular job in depicting the tone I worked so hard to set. I always love when visual and literary style overlap in literature, and I want my story to do that.