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):
Connections: Frazetta vs. Bisley
Look Here, Read: “Deception..!” by Alex Nino
From Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated, volume 1, number 8 (September 1999), here’s Alex Nino’s “Deception..!”:
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Look Here, Read: Tap-dancing with Alex Nino
From Heavy Metal, volume II, number 1 (May 1978), here’s Alex Nino’s “Tap-Dancing on a Tender Cerebellum”:
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Separated at Birth? Max Schmeling and Captain Marvel
Look Here, Read: “A Job Well Done,” with art by Alex Toth
From Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 (August 1975), here’s “A Job Well Done,” with story by Richard Meyers and art by Alex Toth:
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Look Here: “Heavy Metal” cover and two-page spread by Alex Nino
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
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:
Look Here: Wonder Woman covers and pencil drawings by Jeffrey Jones
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.
Look Here, Read: Breccia, Dracula, Supes? Hurrah!
From Bride of Heavy Metal (1985), here’s Alberto Breccia’s humorous tale of an unusual night on the town:
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Condie in winter…
I posted a few snapshots of Condie Nature Refuge, located a short distance outside the Queen City, in October of last year. Here’s what it was like out there earlier today:
And that, dear readers, is winter in southern Saskatchewan in a nutshell.
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