::nook:: The Book Cover Archive Saint Covers 1 series would be incomplete without a mention here of its cover artists: The first, pre-war covers were drawn (or painted) in a photo-like realistic style, often featuring a George Sanders-like likeness for Simon. Then came a series of covers signed by Ch. (Charles?) Boirau. Boirau is very likely the one who came up with the idea of incorporating the Saint stick figure created by Leslie Charteris in creative scenes and situations from the book. Boirau used gouache, and made the figure more three-dimensional, as if it had come out of a tube of toothpaste. Some earlier edition covers were also drawn in a Boirau-like style, but clumsier, and just signed "Phil"? Finally, another artist, Regino Bernad, took over from Boirau in 1947, and as far as I can determine, remained on the job until the last Saint book, published in 1966. Curiously, a few covers (Nos. 23, 31 and 36) were not signed by Bernad and look like they were drawn by someone else trying to clumsily imitate Bernad's style.
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