Illustrated sci-fi books

I have a rather loopy question I've been throwing around in my head and thought I would ask you lovely AWers since there's tons of info running around here.

I small pubbed an illustrated science fantasy novella at a pub house I work at and it had a pretty nice reception. I would like to do another one, but this time it's science fiction and I would like to have it at a bigger house. There are markets for graphic novels and for narrative books but not for a merging of the two which is what I wanted to do with mine. The only other book, or story, I've seen is Marco Patrito's illustrated story Sinkha First Encounter which went on to become a full on multimedia graphic novel on CD.

My question, what's a girl to do? Adult readers like pretty pictures, too! Is there a publisher out there interested in marketing an illustrated science fiction book geared at adult readers?

Hmm, not necessarily. At least I haven't seen any made in that fashion.

Thanks Peggy! I'll check them out.

Well, I don't know the answer to your question, but I'd love to have more illustrated books/novellas/stories. I get excited when I see weird little drawings or full page illustrations, or what have you--especially if it's a unique style-- so I hope there are publishers interested in this sort of thing!

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I definitely agree!

There's "Dr. Adder" by K. W. Jeter, from at least 20-25 years ago, I've got a trade paperback of it around here somewhere. From what little I can tell on Amazon, Jeter wrote a series that includes this book, perhaps the others are illustrated as well. Or perhaps it's only this edition. I recall a full-page drawing perhaps every 20-50 pages.

Short answer, yes, there's precendent for this sort of thing.

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I'll have to put that on my "check out" list. I'd love to see this style come back in the literary world. Someone upthreads mentioned the cost but I imagine it wouldn't be anymore expensive than printing a graphic novel. I wonder if that market may be more open to such submissions more than a book publisher. I'll have to look further into it but it's good to know there's a market for it.

Thanks Small axe! DIY (or DIM?) wouldn't be too bad of an option.