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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
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Look Here: Five more covers with bold art by Golden Age great L. B. Cole
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Look Here: Five covers with bold art by Golden Age great L. B. Cole
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Look There: Pulp cover collection takes you on a trip around the world
Writer, film buff, and @crimefactory editor, Andrew Nette (@pulpcurry), has assembled a terrific Pinterest collection of pulp covers (including a few from RCN) that he has sorted into various categories, including Pulp Fiction Down Under, Pulp Fiction Asia, Pulp Fiction, Pulp Fiction from the 70s, Pulp Miscellany, Pulp Asia, and Pulp Westerns. What I especially appreciate about the collection is that it doesn’t simply consist of cover scans posted via other sites but also includes many attractive and difficult-to-find covers that Andrew himself has scanned and uploaded, presumably from his own library.
Probably the best way to get you to visit Andew’s online pinboard is to show you a sample of what awaits you on the other side of the link. So… here’s a sample:
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Want to add a copy of Terry Harknett’s Promotion Tour to your personal collection of disintegrating pulp fiction? If you have US$69.95 plus US$18.00 for shipping, you can buy a copy right now on ebay. As for me, I’m just going to admire that scan…
Anyway… for your clickin’ convenience, here are those links again:
- Andrew Nette (pulpcurry) on Pinterest
- Andrew Nette (pulpcurry) on Twitter
- Pulp Curry: Website of Andrew Nette, Author
- crime factory (crimefactory) on Twitter
- The Crime Factory – hardboiled, pulp, noir and dark crime fiction, features & reviews.
Look Here: Four thrilling MANHUNT covers with art by Ogden Whitney
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Congratulations to Richard Corben, 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame winner!
A treasure from my personal collection:
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The Judges’ Choices for the Eisner Hall of Fame, announced back in January 2012, were Rudolf Dirks and Harry Lucey. The voters’ choices, announced at yesterday’s awards ceremony, were Bill Blackbeard, Richard Corben, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Gilbert Shelton.
To view all forty-nine of the posts here at RCN that (to date) have been about Richard Corben’s work, start here.
BONUS SCANS:
From The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, here’s a short Introduction to Corben’s work by Will Eisner himself:
Obviously, the copy editing and proofreading at Warren were not the best…
Connections: Frazetta (1973/74) vs. the unknown (1980)
I don’t often buy Western paperbacks, but when I came upon the Signet Brand Western edition of Ray Hogan’s The Hell Raiser (1980) at our local Value Village, I knew right away that there was an amusing blog post in it. So I bought it. But since I don’t own the Signet edition of Flashman at the Charge with the Frazetta cover, we’ll have to make do with a scan borrowed from Davy Crocket’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West:
Is it mere coincidence that Signet published both Flashman at the Charge and The Hell Raiser? Or was the (uncredited) artist instructed by the publisher to do a Western version of a painting, Frazetta’s painting, that had sold a lot of books for Signet in the past? The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind… the answer… is blowin’… in the wind…
Flashman at the Charge is one of the many paintings that Frazetta “improved” after he got it back from the publisher:
Nice hair.
Look Here: Three SF covers with art by Powers, one with art by Schoenherr
Today RCN has got four freshly scanned selections from my personal archive of disintegrating SF paperback pulp for your viewing pleasure:
I don’t know much about John Schoenherr’s career in illustration, but I must say, Schoenherr’s painting for the 1961 Ace edition of Brunner’s Meeting at Infinity is a surreal stunner that even the universally acknowledged king of surreal SF cover art himself, Richard Powers, must have envied when he first laid eyes on it. For a minute or two. Maybe.
To view all of the scans of covers with art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted here at RCN, click here. And don’t forget to click the “Older posts” link when you get to the bottom of the page.
Look Here: Trees, fields, and heath by Robert McGinnis
I wish I had the third volume in Conrad Richter’s “The Awakening Land” series — The Town — with the cover by Robert McGinnis, available in my collection to scan and post, but I don’t. In fact, it’s not easy to come by any of the three volumes, with McGinnis covers, at a decent price. So if you have a copy, count yourself lucky. And if you want to scan it and send it to me so I can post it here at RCN, I will happily accept your contribution!
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The credit for the cover of Wuthering Heights reads as follows: “Cover painting by Bob McGuinness.” My assumption is that “McGuinness” is a typo and that the artist is actually McGinnis. But my sincere apologies to Mr. McGuinness if that is not in fact the case.
You will find a different version of the painting, with the woman in the exact same pose, at TIN CAN FULL OF GOLD.
Finally, you can click here to view all of the covers by Robert McGinnis that I’ve posted here at RCN thus far.
Look Here: Three WHOA, NELLIE! covers by Jaime Hernandez
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It seems odd to me that Jaime Hernandez’s name doesn’t appear on the front of any of the Whoa, Nellie! covers, although, then as now, the words, “A Love and Rockets Comic Book,” were more than enough to get me to lay my money down.
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