More often than not, when a client tells you that they love the finished version of an illustration - which you've sweated, stressed and slaved over for weeks, producing revision after revision, then finally pulled one (or sometimes more) all-nighter(s) to get the damn thing in on deadline - they mean it. Occasionally, however, your tired-but-happily-invoice-producing process goes awry the minute your final illustration hits 'The Sales and Marketing People.' When this happens, be assured that the entire creative team - at whichever publisher it is - are liable to get overruled, and you could be back to square one. I'm not saying, dear reader, that this is what happened in this instance... I'm just saying, I hope this one makes everybody happy.
