From Bride of Heavy Metal (1985), here’s Alberto Breccia’s humorous tale of an unusual night on the town:
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Look Here, Read: Breccia, Dracula, Supes? Hurrah!
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Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 1 of 4)
For my money, Howard Pyle’s illustrations for his 1903 book, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, were among the finest pen-and-ink illustrations of his career, which, of course, makes them some of the finest pen-and-ink illustrations of all time.
I scanned the following images from a library discard book that I bought a week or two ago at the local thrift store; the stain on the first image is from the glue that holds the circulation-card pocket in place on the other side of the page. Fortunately, the rest of the images were undamaged, though it was, at times, difficult to press the book down sufficiently to avoid focus problems near the gutters.
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- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 1 of 4) <– YOU ARE HERE
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 2 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 3 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 4 of 4)
P.S. I’ve long thought that Pyle’s portraits of King Arthur, Uther Pendragon, etc., were the inspiration for the portraits of King Arthur, Queen Ginevere, Sir Launcelot, Merlyn Ambrose, Elaine of Shalott, and Sir Galahad, contained in the minature Gorblimey Press portfolio, Excalibur: Six Drawings by Barry Windsor-Smith.
Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 2 of 4)
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- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 1 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 2 of 4) <– YOU ARE HERE
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 3 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 4 of 4)
Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 3 of 4)
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- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 1 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 2 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 3 of 4) <– YOU ARE HERE
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 4 of 4)
Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 4 of 4)
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- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 1 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 2 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 3 of 4)
- Look Here: Howard Pyle’s “The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (post 4 of 4) <– YOU ARE HERE
Look Here, Read: An interview with BWS from 1978
From a 33-year-old catalogue of “original art for sale” entitled Cartoonists and Illustrator’s Portfolio Volume Three (Wyomissing, PA: Supergraphics, 1978), here’s a short interview with Barry Windsor-Smith, conducted by the catalogue’s publisher, James Steranko:
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As I’ve noted previously on this blog, BWS has a new print available for purchase from Glimmer Graphics. Also, just to give you a little heads up, I should note that 2011 will see the re-publication, in hardcover, of X-Men: Lifedeath.
As of today at Amazon.ca, here are the details:
X-Men: Lifedeath [Hardcover]
Arnold Drake (Author), Chris Claremont (Author), Barry Windsor-Smith (Illustrator)List Price: CDN$
27.99
Price: CDN$ 17.55 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 25.
You Save: CDN$ 10.44# Hardcover: 152 pages
# Publisher: Marvel (July 20 2011)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0785155244
# ISBN-13: 978-0785155249Product Description
Revolutionary artist Barry Windsor-Smith takes on the Uncanny X-Men! The original X-Men go toe-to-toe against Blastaar, deadly menace from the Negative Zone! Storm and Forge find themselves trapped on a primitive paradise world with no hope of escape! Spiral and Lady Deathstrike target Wolverine for death! And Dazzler is hunted by the Marauders, with only the X-Men to save her!
“Arnold Drake (Author)”? Funny, I bought the LifeDeath comics, back in the day, and I don’t remember that at all… but anyway, it’ll be nice to have the work on my bookshelf in hardcover form… I just hope they don’t screw up the colour too badly…
Look Here: Two early, one late, by Paul Lehr
None of the following three covers with art by Paul Lehr really hits the mark. The painting on the cover of Hellstrom’s Hive (1982) is especially anemic; as far as I am concerned, it has very little of interest to say about Frank Herbert’s novel, the SF genre, Lehr’s chosen subject matter, or anything else other than, perhaps, the vain hope that slick technique alone would be enough to fulfil the brief. (Yes, I understand the idea here is that the viewer is supposed put together the visual clues to realize that the red barn, farm house, windrows of hay, etc., are actually located on a planet that is not earth, and that the tiny figures on the hill are not merely your typical human farmers but something more sinister; however, when such a simple idea is so blandly and schematically worked out, how can the viewer’s reaction be anything but boredom?) The fact that Lehr’s hypothetical hope turned out to be not so vain after all — the painting, obviously, was published — seems to me to have been less likely an endorsement of the painting as an effective cover illustration and more likely a tribute to Lehr’s long track record as a distinctive, reliable, and admired SF cover artist.
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Click here to view all of the covers with art by Paul Lehr that I’ve posted so far.
Look Here, Read: “Damsel in Dragon Dress” by Doug Moench and Richard Corben
From Grim Wit #2, published in September 1973, here’s a rollicking six-pager with story by Doug Moench and art by the great Richard Corben:
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I first read “Damsel in Dragon Dress” in the trade-paperback collection, The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, which I purchased new, back in high school, from a “Captain Company” advertisement in either Creepy or Eerie, I forget which… it was a long time ago… but I still have my original copy of that book, along with very nice backup copy that I bought on ebay years later…
Look Here: Four paperback covers from 1968-69, with art by Jeffrey Jones
More scans from the paperback library of yours truly:
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To view all of the paperback and other covers with art by Jeffrey Jones that I’ve posted so far, click here. And fair warning: I still have a few more left to scan!
Happy New Year!
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