Look Here: Six from the Sixties, with cover art by Richard Powers

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Look Here: Three early 1970s SF paperbacks, with cover art by Richard Powers

7 March 201111 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From my personal collection of crumbling mass-market paperbacks:

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**ABOVE:** Dan Morgan, *The High Destiny* (New York: Berkley, 1973), with cover art by Richard Powers.

**ABOVE:** Dan Morgan, *Inside* (New York: Berkley, 1974), with cover art by Richard Powers.

**ABOVE:** Christian Leourier, *The Mountains of the Sun* (New York: Berkley, 1974), with cover art by Richard Powers.

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Connections: “Mad” vs. “Mystic”

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harvey-kurtzman_cover_mad-n6_aug-sept-1953 — **ABOVE:** *Mad* #6 (August-September 1953), with cover art by Harvey Kurtzman.

carl-burgos_cover_mystic-n37_may-1955 — **ABOVE:** *Mystic* #37 (May 1955), with cover art by Carl Burgos.

Notice the dates of the two comics. Kurtzman’s parody was first.

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Look Here: More paperbacks with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon

23 February 201111 August 2016 RC2 Comments

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leo-diane-dillon_a-tale-of-two-cities_ny-washington-square-press-1968 — **ABOVE:** Charles Dickens, *A Tale of Two Cities* (New York: Washington Square Press, 1968), with cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.

leo-diane-dillon_nightshade-and-damnations_ny-fawcett-1968 — **ABOVE:** Gerald Kersh, *Nightshade & Damnations* (New York: Fawcett, 1968), with cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.

leo-diane-dillon_one-million-tomorrows_ny-ace-1970 — **ABOVE:** Bob Shaw, *One Million Tomorrows* (New York: Ace, 1970), with cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.

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Look Here: “Erebus Odora” by Jeffrey Jones

23 February 201111 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Two studies in red conté along with the final painting, which was published in Epic Illustrated #30:

jeffrey-jones_erebus-odora_red-conte_14x14in — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, preliminary drawing (n.d.), red conté on paper, 14 x 14 in, for the painting *Erebus Odora*. From the astonishing art collection of Rob Pistella.

jeffrey-erebus-odora_red-conte_18x24in — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, preliminary drawing (n.d.), red conté on paper, 18 x 24 in, for the painting *Erebus Odora*.

jeffrey-jones_erebus-odora — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, *Erebus Odora* (n.d.), oil painting, as published in *Epic Illustrated* #30 (June 1985).

One of the main frustrations of the various books on the art of Jeffrey Jones is the lack of documentation regarding mediums, supports (e.g., masonite, mounted canvas, stretched canvas, whatever), sizes, dates, etc. Trouble is, Jones himself never kept proper records of his work, and his publishers apparently have not had the wherewithal to locate the works in order to fill in the gaps

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Connections: Jones, Jones, Jones

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jeffrey-jones_pencil-drawing_yesterdays-lily_p74 — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, untitled study (n.d.), pencil on paper, as published in *Yesterday’s Lily* (Dragon’s Dream, 1980), page 74.

jeffrey-jones_world-fantasy-convention-1984 — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, front and back covers of convention program, *World Fantasy Convention 1984*.

jeffrey-jones_the-puritan_oil — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, *The Puritan* (n.d.), oil painting. Here’s a better reproduction of the painting on the back of *World Fantasy Convention 1984*.

jeffrey-jones_study_1984_ink-and-watercolour_7x10in — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, untitled study (1984), ink and watercolour, 7 x 10 inches.

I believe the oil painting is called The Puritan and was one of a series of paintings by Jones that were based on Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane.

I gave readers a “Heads Up” back on 25 July 2010, and now the regular hardcover edition of Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (IDW Publishing, 2011) — a 256-page collection of Jones’s “personal favourites” from a long and celebrated career — is available for purchase at a bookstore near you. I haven’t received my copy yet, but it should be here soon…

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Connections: Frazetta vs. Bisley

3 February 201111 August 2016 RC4 Comments

IMHO, all signs point to Frank Frazetta’s seductive Egyptian Queen (1969) as the “inspiration” for Simon Bisley’s comparatively coarse FAKK 2 illustration (1996):

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Look Here: “Heavy Metal” cover and two-page spread by Alex Nino

31 January 201111 August 2016 RC2 Comments

From Heavy Metal, volume I, number 11 (Febrary 1978), here’s a wraparound cover, with a painting entitled “Teachings from an Unholy Book,” and a two-page spread of an ambitious painting, “The Burial of Death,” by visionary comics artist Alex Nino:

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Look Here: “Aliens: Alchemy” #1 original cover art (and more) by Corben

28 January 201111 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From 1997, here’s Richard Corben’s original marker-on-vellum cover art for Aliens: Alchemy #1, along with scans of all three covers in the Alchemy mini-series:

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Look Here: Wonder Woman covers and pencil drawings by Jeffrey Jones

28 January 201111 August 2016 RC4 Comments

I don’t have any dates for the drawings; however, the first pencil drawing below was likely a prelim for Jones’s well-known covers for Wonder Woman #199 and #200 (1972), while the second looks to me like it’s from much later in Jones’s career, perhaps around the time of the story I Bled the Sea.