Here's a cover I did for the University of Minnesota Press. First published in 1971, the book is about author Toby Thompson's trip to Hibbing, Minnesota, to find the "real Dylan." Thompson even strikes up a romance with Dylan's old girlfriend, the inspiration for "Girl from the North Country." The original 1971 cover was done by none other than Milton Glaser. So many Dylan books have a photo on the cover, that I wanted to follow Uncle Miltie's example and do an illustrative treatment. I really like this illustration, and I also liked the Bob Dylan logo I created in the lower left: a play off the old Columbia Records logo, cut in half to form a B and a D. I think Mr. Thompson liked the cover, but I'm not sure anyone else did.
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