While Breese couldn't get all of their suggestions into the final product, Folio did allow them to whip up an extra drawing that became a two-page title spread right inside of the front cover. I was putting in little notes or little scribbles every time I came to a moment I thought would look really good - and jotting down reasons for that as well.' 'I had that in mind as I was going through, just reading through the book over and over again. 'We had to be a bit strategic because obviously, you want the pictures staggered pretty evenly throughout the book,' Breese says. Head below to see what the images looked like in the nascent stages of the creative process and what they ultimately became once fully detailed and colored. The generous folks over at The Folio Society were kind enough to provide SYFY WIRE with an exclusive look behind-the-scenes at a number of early Vector That Fox sketches done for the project. 'I got an email from them, saying, ‘Would you be open to the idea? We’re just sort of chasing the rights for it if you’re keen to do it.’ Obviously, I was very keen to do it and since the first book came out, it was nonstop people saying, ‘Please do The Lost World! Please do The Lost World!’' 'I think it was literally a month afterwards,' the illustrator recalls during a Zoom conversation with SYFY WIRE. Fan reception to the release was so positive, that Folio asked Breese if they were interested in crafting six more pieces for a collector's edition of the sequel. Jo Breese - a U.K.-based artist who goes by the professional title of Vector That Fox - faced a similar situation last year after illustrating a special hardcover edition of Crichton's dinosaur masterpiece for The Folio Society.

Following the cultural and financial success of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation three years later, Crichton had no choice but to deliver a follow-up that became 1995's The Lost World. Shortly after the publication of Jurassic Parkin 1990, author Michael Crichton started to receive endless letters from readers, asking him if a sequel was in the cards.

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