"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From Western Love Trails #7 (November 1949), here’s “Princess of the Rising Moon,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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I posted Zansky’s lovely romantic cover for Western Love Trails #7 yesterday.
For more stories illustrated by the same artist, check out the Louis Zansky category here at RCN.
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To view all of the work by Louis Zansky that I’ve posted so far, start here.
More pages from Richard Corben’s personal inventory of original comic art by Richard Corben will go on sale via the “Sales” page on the official Corben website on Saturday 26 January 2013 at noon CST.
Thumbnail images of the pages that will be up for sale are on the site now for preview.
The sale includes thirty (30) pages, which break down into four groups:
“Buy-it-now” prices for all except the Mutant World pages (which will be “on auction”) will be posted when the sale goes live.
The cover art for all of the following covers is uncredited, but some are signed by the artist, Stanislaw Fernandes, and near as I can tell, he produced the cover art for the other books in the series, too:
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P.S. The above books are all from my personal library and were scanned by me just a few minutes ago. Of course.
P.P.S. I often buy vintage books solely for the cover art. I bought Stanislaw Lem’s books (years ago) because I wanted to read them. And I kept them because I wanted to re-read them. Because Lem is now one of my favourite writers.
I purchased the following four paperbacks with cover art by the great Richard Powers late last year from an online seller, and this morning I finally roused myself to scan them for display on RCN:
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To view all of the covers with art by Richard Powers that I’ve scanned and posted thus far in the life of RCN, start here.
I posted cover scans of books one and two of “The Justice Cycle” by Virginia Hamilton as part of RCN’s visual tribute to Leo Dillon when he died back in May 2012. I have since acquired book three, The Gathering, so now, naturally, I’m here to post a scan, or rather, one new scan and two old scans, since I think some of you might appreciate seeing the three covers displayed together in one post. Enjoy!
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To view all of the work by Leo and Diane Dillon that I’ve scanned and posted so far, start here.
Earlier today, publisher Annie Koyama posted to announce that Koyama Press has four new titles set to debut in Spring 2013: Very Casual and Lose #5 by Michael DeForge, Journal by Julie Delporte and Everything Takes Forever by Victor Kerlow. Certainly, every one of those titles is going to be worth a look, at the very least, but I have to say, the book I am most looking forward to, the book I will definitely buy, sight unseen, is the 152-page DeForge collection, Very Casual:
Here’s the publisher’s description:
Culled from mini comics, online comics and anthology contributions, Very Casual collects notable short stories from DeForge’s prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens. Very Casual also collects “Spotting Deer,” which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, non-narrative or avant-garde work at the 2011 Doug Wright Awards
You can read a great many comics stories by DeForge for free online at What Things Do and via DeForge’s Tumblr stream or WordPress blog.
Now get ready to buy the book!
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t often buy Western novels for the cover art. But here are five that I did buy. They’re not masterpieces, by any means. Each one, however, displays some feature or other that, for me, distinguishes it from the usual boring, middle-of-the-road, realist action scenes that publishers apparently think that readers of Western novels prefer to gawk at:
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All of the cover artists in the above group are uncredited, but two of the covers are legibly signed, so I’ve included their names in the file names. Two other covers are also signed, but I can’t make out the signatures, nor can I find any credit information on any other websites.
Enjoy?
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