Look Here: Three more paperbacks with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

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jeffrey-jones_sorcerers-amulet_ny-lancer-books-1968 — **ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *Sorcerer’s Amulet* (New York: Lancer Books, 1968), with cover art by Jeffrey Jones.

jeffrey-jones_the-mongol-mask_ny-dell-1969 — **ABOVE:** David St. John, *The Mongol Mask* (New York: Dell, 1969), with cover art by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Arthur O. Friel, *Tiger River* (New York: Centaur Press, 1971), with N. C. Wyeth-influenced cover art by Jeffrey Jones.

To view all of the books and magazines with cover art by Jeffrey Jones that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Richard Powers

Look Here: Ten SF paperbacks, 1958 to 1977, with cover art by Richard Powers

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From my own library:

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richard-powers_the-skylark-of-space_ny-pyramid-1958 — **ABOVE:** Edward E. Smith, *The Skylark of Space* (New York: Pyramid, 1958), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_the-worlds-of-clifford-simak_ny-avon-nd — **ABOVE:** Clifford Simak, *The Worlds of Clifford Simak* (New York: Avon, n.d.), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_creatures-of-the-abyss_ny-berkley-1961 — **ABOVE:** Murray Leinster, *Creatures of the Abyss* (New York: Berkley, 1961), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_beyond-the-barrier_ny-macfadden-books-1965 — **ABOVE:** Damon Knight, *Beyond the Barrier* (New York: Macfadden Books, 1965), with cover art by Richard Powers.

**ABOVE:** William F. Nolan, *Impact-20* (New York: Paperback Library, 1966), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_galactic-odyssey_ny-berkley-1967 — **ABOVE:** Keith Laumer, *Galactic Odyssey* (New York: Berkley, 1967), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_the-glory-that-was_ny-paperback-library-1971 — **ABOVE:** L. Sprague de Camp, *The Glory That Was* (New York: Paperback Library, 1971), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_out-of-their-minds_ny-berkley-1975 — **ABOVE:** Clifford D. Simak, *Out of Their Minds* (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_the-future-now_ny-fawcett-1977_front — **ABOVE:** Robert Hoskins, ed., *The Future Now* (New York: Fawcett, 1977), with cover art by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_the-future-now_ny-fawcett-1977_back — **ABOVE:** Robert Hoskins, ed., *The Future Now* (New York: Fawcett, 1977), with cover art by Richard Powers. This is the back cover, obviously, but note that the art doesn’t appear on the spine, which is a solid colour.

To view all of the paperbacks with cover art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Art Collection · James Stokoe · Look Here · Original art vs. printed page

Look Here: An ORC STAIN original by James Stokoe

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Here’s yet another recent addition to our art collection; it’s a signed original page from the fourth issue of James Stokoe’s Orc Stain (July 2010). I’ve included a scan of the full-colour published version of the page for comparison. Sorry the bottom corner of my photo of the original art is a bit out of focus. I’ll try to do better next time.

Pages from James Stokoe’s Orc Stain can be purchased online from McConnell Art.

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Look Here: PARIS, page 73, art by Simon Gane

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In May of this year, my wife and I purchased the following page from the graphic novel, Paris, by writer Andi Watson and artist Simon Gane (SLG Publishing, 2007), at a very reasonable price, via Simon Gane’s online art store:

BONUS LINK:

The Comics Reporter > CR Holiday Interview #3: Simon Gane — posted 17 December 2007 by interviewer Tom Spurgeon.

Art Collection · Comics · Ebay Win · Look Here · Mell Lazarus

Look Here: Another “Miss Peach” original by Mell

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My wife and I already own two “Miss Peach” daily strips by Mell Lazarus. And now we own a third, courtesy of ebay:

mell-lazarus_miss-peach-daily_02-06-1961 — **ABOVE:** Mell Lazarus, *Miss Peach* daily, 02-06-61.

Funny thing is, even though we bought the above strip from a different seller than the other two, and we had to outbid another person to get it — it wasn’t a “Buy It Now” listing — the final price, shipping included, came to US$55.00 even, almost exactly what we paid for each of the other two strips.

Not sure we’ll buy many more “Miss Peach” dailies after this, but I’d sure love to own a Sunday strip or two.

BONUS CONTENT:

Mell “The Ladies’ Man” Lazarus visits the Sun-Times public service lounge on 09 April 1962:

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Look Here: Two framed prints by Maxfield Parrish

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maxfield-parrish_the-rubaiyat — **ABOVE:** Maxfield Parrish, *The Rubaiyat* (1917), framed print.

maxfield-parrish_the-garden-of-allah — **ABOVE:** Maxfield Parrish, *The Garden of Allah* (1918), framed print.

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Look Here, Read: Two more MIDNIGHT TALES by Nick Cuti and Tom Sutton

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First up, from Midnight Tales volume 3, number 9 (October 1974), here’s “The Night of the Demon,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton:

And next, from Midnight Tales volume 3, number 10 (December 1974), here’s “The Strange Mr. Milque,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton:

BONUS LINK:

Look Here, Read: Two MIDNIGHT TALES by Nick Cuti and Tom Sutton

Book/Magazine Covers (Jones) · Connections · Fine Art · Illustration Art · Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones · Look Here

Connections: Titian and Jones

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Yesterday afternoon, I spent a little time reading at random in Painting Techniques of the Masters: Painting Lessons from the Great Masters (revised and enlarged edition) by Hereward Lester Cooke, and came across a famous portrait by Titian that, to my eye and mind, could easily have been one of the inspirations for Jeffrey Jones’s oddly proportioned but striking portrait of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane, created for the first edition of a collection of Solomon Kane short stories, Red Shadows, published by Donald M. Grant in 1968:

titian_portrait-of-doge-andrea-gritti_1544-45_oil-on-canvas_133.6x103.2cm — **ABOVE:** Titian, Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti (1544-45), oil on canvas, 133.6 x 103.2 cm.

titian_portrait-of-doge-andrea-gritti_1544-45_oil-on-canvas_133.6x103.2cm_flipped — **ABOVE:** Titian, Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti (1544-45), oil on canvas, 133.6 x 103.2 cm. Please note that I’ve flipped Titian’s painting horizontally, i.e., made a mirror image of it, in the above JPEG to facilitate comparison and contrast with Jeffrey Jones’s painting. Mirroring is strategy commonly used by artists to disguise their swipes, though I don’t think I’d go so far as to say that Jones’s “Solomon Kane” is swiped from Titian’s “Doge Andrea Gritti.”

jeffrey-jones_solomon-kane_1967_oil-on-canvas — **ABOVE:** Jeffrey Jones, Solomon Kane (1967), oil on canvas.

As the night wind said to the little lamb: Do you see what I see?

POSTSCRIPT:

I wonder, does anyone else think that Jones’s portrait of Solomon Kane is basically a self-portrait? Because I sure do.

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Look Here, Read: Two MIDNIGHT TALES by Nick Cuti and Tom Sutton

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First up, from Midnight Tales volume 3, number 7 (June 1974), here’s “Goo,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton:

And next, from Midnight Tales volume 3, number 8 (July 1974), here’s “The Kilgore Monster,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton:

To view a cover and a couple of stories with art by Tom Sutton that I posted back on 05 May 2011, click here.

UPDATE (30 June 2011):

Look Here, Read: Two more MIDNIGHT TALES by Nick Cuti and Tom Sutton

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Richard Corben

Look Here: 1984 #1 – cover and original art by Richard Corben

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Corben’s unique method of producing full-colour art by combining a continuous-tone black-and-white grisaille (produced using airbrush, pen and ink, markers, pencil crayons, brushes and paint, etc.) with overlaid, handmade colour separations, gave his finished work a luminosity, intensity, and above all, a texture, that artists who relied on airbrush alone struggled to imitate; it also meant that all of the images produced via Corben’s process — including not only many classic covers but also entire graphic novels such as New Tales of the Arabian Nights, the multi-volume Den saga, and the Heavy Metal reprint of Bloodstar — only exist in colour in the printed versions. The cover of 1984 #1 is a case in point:

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Here’s another example.