Author:Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen

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Hieroglyphic art

Note 2015-12-16 by User:Pwendt, the sole author of what now appears below. This is entirely concerned with hieroglyphic art that illustrates the three novels of The Kane Chronicles Series 26841. It is based entirely on examination of the three first editions only (all now primary transient verified by me).

"Hieroglyph art by Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen." --credited title page verso in The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan (Disney/Hyperion, 2012), first edition first printing, Publ 380547.

The Hieroglyph art consists of small b/w line drawings that are concentrated in the Glossary (p402-04), an ESSAY for which we credit her interior illustrations, Title 1533525. The same drawings appear occasionally throughout the novel (p1-401), introduced by colons and centered, to illustrate magical commands issued by the main characters.

Gengaro is a book designer and illustrator. The credit probably includes Horus and Isis symbols that appear in the top left corners of the first pages of all chapters, Horus or Isis as the chapter is narrated by Carter Kane or Sadie Kane respectively, who have Horus and Isis avatars.

• For illustration of the meaning see Kane Chronicles Box Set: illustration by Antonio Caparo at gallery Behance.net (2). These two pictures show Carter and Sadie mid-assumption of their avatars (Horus and Isis) with Horus and Isis hieroglyphic symbols aglow in the air. In the novels, glowing hieroglyph symbols in the air accompany or follow or signify the operation of spoken magical commands such "ha-nehm". That is what the b/w drawings occasionally "introduced by colons and centered" in the books evidently depict.

All three Kane Chronicles novels (first edition books) include hieroglyphic symbols credited to MGK as described above for the third novel, both in the text and atop the first page of every chapter (narrated by Carter or Sadie without exception).

Only the second and third books have a Glossary appendix where all of the hieroglyphic symbols in the book (different in the two books) are concentrated with English explanations.

Do we have one comprehensive Glossary, at least in its hieroglyph section identical as an appendix to all three novels? Or three distinct ones?

In the three first editions we have two distinct Glossaries in books 2 and 3. (The same is true of a second appendix which lists the Egyptian gods and goddesses mentioned in the book at hand.)

If distinct, is there or will there be a fourth version, a single unified Glossary--either published elsewhere or published in later editions of all three novels?

Unknown.

ISFDB does not yet list interior art for the novels; thus hieroglyphic art in the first book is now represented only in a Note, not by any INTERIORART. ISFDB lists the two Glossary ESSAY by Rick Riordan (books 2 3) and INTERIORART by MGK (books 2 3). At the moment the first three are minimal Title records; the last provides a descriptive Note.

Name

The Kane Chronicles novels (first editions) all credit "Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen". I infer that her canonical name at WorldCat is "Michelle Gengaro". For instance, OCLC 815927974 links "Michelle Gengaro" in the Author field; notes "Rick Riordan ; [hieroglyph art by Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen]" in the Responsibility field. Search "Michelle Gengaro" [1] hits one earlier work, a 2008 picture book "illustrated by Michelle Gengaro".