"In the archives I found an early draft of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, so I thought fans would appreciate seeing just the title page. Later I found transcripts of conversations between George Lucas and [author] Alan Dean Foster, so I mentioned that in the caption. The caption concerning the cover of the book was able to list the exact dates that Ralph worked on the illustration -- how? Thanks to Ralph's daily planner from 1977, which he let me borrow while I was writing the book. The planner also enabled me to date approximately, and often exactly, all of Ralph's concept art and illustrations for Empire, because he also had his planner for 1978.
