Look Here: Two Self-Portraits from 1914, by Egon Schiele

18 January 201011 August 2016 RC3 Comments

**ABOVE:** Egon Schiele, *Self-Portrait in Lilac Shirt* (1914), gouache, watercolour, and pencil, 48.4 x 32.2 cm.

**ABOVE:** Egon Schiele, *Self-Portrait with Raised Arms* (1914), gouache and pencil, 48.4 x 32.1 cm.

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Look Here: “Scheherazade” (1970) by Jeffrey Jones

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Jones’s Scheherazade graced the cover of the Styx #2 back in 1973 (37 years ago!):

jeffrey-jones_pencil-prelim_scheherazade

Styx was published by Winnipeg’s own Joseph Krolik, who was very active in fandom beginning in the mid-to-late 1960s, when he and a buddy, Andris Taskans, both in high school at the time, started a club called “The Science Fiction Fans & Comic Collectors of Winnipeg” and published a “clubzine” called Universe that ran for seven issues.

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Look Here (and There!): New Print by Barry Windsor-Smith

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On 05 March 2010, Glimmer Graphics, known to readers of this blog as the publisher of an ongoing series of first-rate prints and posters by Jeffrey Jones, will release Poetry (see above image), a lush new 22 x 15 inch limited-edition giclée print by Barry Windsor-Smith. Each of the 375 prints that make up the edition will be signed and numbered and will be presented in a foil-stamped linen folder with a tipped-on colour plate. The unit price is US$135, shipped and insured, and you may pay in full or with installments. To place your order, click here.

This is NOT a paid advertisement. If the money BWS makes from the print enables him to complete work on his long-awaited Monsters graphic novel, that will be payment enough. The previews on BWS’s site are gorgeous!

BONUS LINKS:

The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 1 HC (Publication Date: 13 January 2010) — “now presented as they were intended, remastered using the original color palette!”

The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 2 HC (Publication Date: 19 May 2010) — “The two Barry Windsor-Smith archives collect all of the historic and influential Conan the Barbarian comics drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith,” including his adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Red Nails”!

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Look Here: Four more paperback covers by Jeffrey Jones

14 January 201011 August 2016 RC1 Comment

**ABOVE:** Ted White, *The Spawn of the Death Machine* (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** Michael D. Resnick, *The Goddess of Ganymede* (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** A. E. Van Vogt, *The Far Out Worlds of A. E. Van Vogt* (New York: Ace Books, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** L. Sprague de Camp, *The Clocks of Iraz* (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

Even though I don’t much care for any of the above covers, I have decided to include them here anyway for what they reveal about Jones’s slow but steady development as an artist.

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Look Here, Read: “The Believer,” with art by Richard Corben

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From the pages of Comix International #4 (Warren, 1976), here’s “The Believer,” with story by Budd Lewis and art by Richard Corben:

Holiday Greetings

Season’s Greetings!

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Look Here: Again, three by Lehr

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**ABOVE:** A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull, *Planets for Sale* (New York: Tempo Books, 1970), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 – 1998).

**ABOVE:** Gardner F. Fox, *Kothar of the Magic Sword* (New York: Modern Promotions, n.d.), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

**ABOVE:** David Gerrold, Yesterday’s Children (New York: Dell, 1972), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 – 1998).

That makes 16 covers by Paul Lehr displayed here, with more to come…

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Look Here: Three more paperback covers by Paul Lehr

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Note that the first two paperback covers below are from early in Lehr’s career as a cover artist while the third one is from fairly late in Lehr’s career:

**ABOVE:** Robert A. Heinlein, *Podkayne of Mars* (New York: Avon, 1966), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 – 1998).

**ABOVE:** Robert A. Heinlein, *Glory Road* (New York: Avon, 1966), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 – 1998).

**ABOVE:** Sharon Baker, *Journey to Membliar* (New York: Avon, 1987), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 – 1998).

Connections · Howard Pyle

Connections: Howard Pyle and Adrian Smith

22 December 200911 August 2016 RC2 Comments

As I was a-wanderin’ the Web for pleasure, I spied an illustration I thought looked familiar…

**ABOVE:** Howard Pyle (1853-1911), *The Charge* (n.d.).

**ABOVE:** Adrian Smith, untitled illustration (n.d.).

If it’s an homage, then Smith should be delighted someone recognized the reference, right?

BONUS LINK:

Adrian Smith, Illustrator

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Salvador Dali on abstract art…

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“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”

— Salvador Dali, The Diary of a Genius (1952–63) (1964; London: Hutchinson, 1990), p. 95.