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Q&A Are illustrations in novels frowned upon?

Lately I've been thinking that I don't know of a single novel that has illustrations in it. I've tried finding out the reason why, and came across an article published in The Guardian in 2011, but ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Valrog‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:45:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/47422
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Valrog‭ · 2019-12-08T12:45:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
Lately I've been thinking that I don't know of a single novel that has illustrations in it. I've tried finding out the reason why, and came across an [article published in The Guardian in 2011](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/13/illustrations-fiction-novels), but it didn't arrive to any conclusions or provided an explanation for this.

I come from a visual medium, so complementing the writing with visual aids seems pretty logical to me. I thought of two reasons why this isn't more common, first being that most writers aren't visual artists, which is reasonable, and the second that printing expensive, and pictures would increase the cost significantly. But in a situation where the writer also likes to draw / illustrate and is not bound by cost (an e-book for example), would there be any drawbacks from providing pictures with the novel?

Maps seem to be an exception for this, since they are somewhat common in fantasy works.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-19T20:09:22Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 30