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The Secret of Monkey Island (Concept Art)

From the 1990 LucasFilm Games adventure game, designed by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. Filed under: Concept Art, Secret of Monkey Island. Return to previous page or media home

Steve Purcell's drawing of LeChuck's ghost ship, scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #1

Steve Purcell's drawing of the Monkey Head, scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #1

Steve Purcell's drawing of the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #1

Steve Purcell's drawing of a swarthy pirate reading <i>101 Scathing Insults</i>, scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #1

Steve Purcell's drawing of a bunch of monkeys, scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #2

This picture of Spiffy the Dog was dropped from the game because it would've added an extra floppy disk; it's still visible on the box back, though.

A picture of an alternate interface used in a beta version of the <i>MI1</i> Mac port. Scanned from <i>Adventurer</i> #3.

This picture from the back of the Macintosh version box shows an alternate inventory picture for the hunk of meat.

Steve Purcell's sketch for the eventual cover art.

A clean version of the monkey head painting, courtesy of Steve Purcell's blog.

Early version of the MI1 title screen

Early version of the MI1 GUI

Early version of Guybrush's sprite in the VGA release

Early concept cover by Steve Purcell

Early concept cover by Steve Purcell

Early sketche for Dial-a-Pirate copy-protection codewheel. From Steve Purcell's blog, <a href="http://spudvisionblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/dial-pirate-tattoo-sheet.html">Spudvision</a>.

Early sketches for Dial-a-Pirate copy-protection codewheel. From Steve Purcell's blog, <a href="http://spudvisionblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/dial-pirate-tattoo-sheet.html">Spudvision</a>.

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