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Steve Salerno Teams Up with Ghostbusters

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Steve Salerno has illustrated all sorts of books: cookbooks, travel books, novels, and to date, twenty-four popular picture books for kids with five more due for release over the next three years. But when he received a call from Penguin/Random House editor Elizabeth Rendfleisch, it was not for the usual fare. This project would be an illustrated guide to the paranormal activities of two famous Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert (played by Kristen Wiig) and Abby L. Yates (played by Melissa McCarthy) in the soon to be released GHOSTBUSTERS movie. The editor had seen Steve’s sketches of Sci-fi characters on his website, which had the loose drawing style the editor was looking for…as if the authors were documenting what they encountered on the fly. The project required thirty drawings (six are shown here) on a very tight deadline, which could only have added to the overall look and feel of the project.