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Restoring the past
» Peter Chan’s Star Warsinspired tribute to Day Of The Tentacle looks excellent.
» Restoring Steve Purcell’s Zak McKraken art was tough as Jan had so few resources to use.
» Here’s Mark Ferrari’s Loom artwork. Jan has now been restoring the art of LucasArts for over ten years.
» This Grim Fandango mural is astonishing and full of detail. We can only imagine how long it took Jan to restore.
A lot of readers loved our Monkey Island cover from issue 212, so it made perfect sense to talk to the person behind it. While Steve Purcell painted the original art for LucasArts back in the day, graphic artist Jan Hofmeister is responsible for the incredible restoration work that adorns our cover (check out his other restoration projects at poster.mixnmojo. com) Here he tells us the painstaking process behind restoring classic pieces of art to their original glory.
How did you become interested in LucasArts adventures?
One of my earliest gaming memories is seeing Maniac Mansion on my uncle’s C64. Years later one of the first games I saw running on a PC was the EGA version of The Secret Of Monkey Island, and it totally blew my mind. During my teenage years more and more LucasArts games – both adventure games and titles like X-Wing and TIE Fighter – circulated among our group of friends, so we played many of them together. Those games and their special brand of humour were a big part of my childhood and adolescence.