Children of the Night Tide

Before there was Retief, before there was even Dalgoda, Jan Strnad and Dennis Fujitake collaborated on a touching and funny tale called "Sea Dragon," about a young dragon who has too much fun sinking ships and eating people when he should be at home guarding his treasure. In "Goblin Child," illustrated by Tim Solliday in the manner of the nineteenth-century fantasy illustrators, a mother and father go to rescue their changeling child from the land of the goblins. These two stories were published in one volume under the blanket title Children of the Night-Tide. With Strnad's subtle and witty scripting matching Fujitake's elegant storytelling and characterization panel for panel, this is an authentic masterpiece of mood.