Author:Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen
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"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, ISFDB Publication Record # 380547 [1].
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, ISFDB Title Record # 1533525 [2]. 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.
- Kane Chronicles Box Set: illustration by Antonio Caparo at gallery Behance.net (2). These two illustrations show Carter and Sadie mid-assumption of their avatars with Horus and Isis symbols aglow in the air. In the novel, 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" evidently illustrate.
We do not yet credit illustrations in the first or second Kane Chronicles novels. Presuming that they are similar and will be credited as interior illustrations in parallel fashion here, some open questions will remain: Do we have one comprehensive Glossary, at least in its hieroglyph section identical as an appendix to all three novels? Or three distinct ones? 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.
- Update by same editor (User:Pwendt) some time later. All three Kane Chronicles novels include hieroglyphics that illustrate first pages of all chapters and magical commands as described above. Only the second and third have a Glossary appendix where all of the hieroglyphic symbols in the book (different in the two books) are concentrated with English explanations. All three credit hieroglyphic art Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen.
- I added The Throne of Fire (book 2) Glossary parallel to what we have for book 3 (ESSAY and INTERIORART). We do not yet list any interior art for the novels.