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Joseph Mugnaini collaborated with one of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th century, Ray Bradbury, who authored such classics as "The Martian Chronicles," "Fahrenheit 451", and "Something Wicked This Way Comes." The writer and the artist met in Los Angeles in 1952 and quickly began collaborating on projects. Mugnaini went on to illustrate many of Bradbury's works, including "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles." Later that year Bradbury took on a project in Ireland for director John Huston to write the screenplay for the film "Moby Dick," which took him all of 1953 and half of 1954 to finish. Bradbury published his experiences in "Green Shadows, White Whale." Inspired by his friend's work on "Moby Dick," Mugnaini created this color-mixed intaglio print depicting a scene in the story. It shows a pair of colorful, winged, predatory mantis-like creatures swimming through the sea as the great white whale's bloodstained body drifts in the seaweed beneath them. A pair of porpoises are in attendance. A line of rainbow color winds upward, possibly to Ahab's entangled body.