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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Look Here: Five covers with bold art by Golden Age great L. B. Cole
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Look There: Pulp cover collection takes you on a trip around the world
Writer, film buff, and @crimefactory editor, Andrew Nette (@pulpcurry), has assembled a terrific Pinterest collection of pulp covers (including a few from RCN) that he has sorted into various categories, including Pulp Fiction Down Under, Pulp Fiction Asia, Pulp Fiction, Pulp Fiction from the 70s, Pulp Miscellany, Pulp Asia, and Pulp Westerns. What I especially appreciate about the collection is that it doesn’t simply consist of cover scans posted via other sites but also includes many attractive and difficult-to-find covers that Andrew himself has scanned and uploaded, presumably from his own library.
Probably the best way to get you to visit Andew’s online pinboard is to show you a sample of what awaits you on the other side of the link. So… here’s a sample:
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Want to add a copy of Terry Harknett’s Promotion Tour to your personal collection of disintegrating pulp fiction? If you have US$69.95 plus US$18.00 for shipping, you can buy a copy right now on ebay. As for me, I’m just going to admire that scan…
Anyway… for your clickin’ convenience, here are those links again:
- Andrew Nette (pulpcurry) on Pinterest
- Andrew Nette (pulpcurry) on Twitter
- Pulp Curry: Website of Andrew Nette, Author
- crime factory (crimefactory) on Twitter
- The Crime Factory – hardboiled, pulp, noir and dark crime fiction, features & reviews.
Look Here: Four thrilling MANHUNT covers with art by Ogden Whitney
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Connections: The Iron Giant Special Edition DVD Cover (2004) vs. Pacific Rim Comic Con Poster (2012)
Not sure why I’m bothering to point this out, the design swipe is so blatant…
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Congratulations to Richard Corben, 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame winner!
A treasure from my personal collection:
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The Judges’ Choices for the Eisner Hall of Fame, announced back in January 2012, were Rudolf Dirks and Harry Lucey. The voters’ choices, announced at yesterday’s awards ceremony, were Bill Blackbeard, Richard Corben, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Gilbert Shelton.
To view all forty-nine of the posts here at RCN that (to date) have been about Richard Corben’s work, start here.
BONUS SCANS:
From The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, here’s a short Introduction to Corben’s work by Will Eisner himself:
Obviously, the copy editing and proofreading at Warren were not the best…
Look Here, Read: “The Electronic Music Concert” by Fred Schrier
From Meef Comix #2 (May 1973), here’s “The Electronic Music Concert” by under-appreciated comix humorist Fred Schrier:
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Why can’t I click on over to my favourite online bookstore and buy a fat hardcover collection of Fred Schrier’s underground comics?
Because the world isn’t arranged to please me, that’s why!
Connections: Frazetta (1973/74) vs. the unknown (1980)
I don’t often buy Western paperbacks, but when I came upon the Signet Brand Western edition of Ray Hogan’s The Hell Raiser (1980) at our local Value Village, I knew right away that there was an amusing blog post in it. So I bought it. But since I don’t own the Signet edition of Flashman at the Charge with the Frazetta cover, we’ll have to make do with a scan borrowed from Davy Crocket’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West:
Is it mere coincidence that Signet published both Flashman at the Charge and The Hell Raiser? Or was the (uncredited) artist instructed by the publisher to do a Western version of a painting, Frazetta’s painting, that had sold a lot of books for Signet in the past? The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind… the answer… is blowin’… in the wind…
Flashman at the Charge is one of the many paintings that Frazetta “improved” after he got it back from the publisher:
Nice hair.
Look There, Read: Richard Corben on adapting Edgar Allan Poe
Today at TCJ.com, Richard Corben talks with Joe McCulloch about horror comics, the intricacies of comics colouring, Corben’s longstanding fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and his new Poe project for Dark Horse. See “And to Have More Control, I Would Have to Do More”: Richard Corben on Adapting Edgar Allan Poe.
“My first intent was to do so called faithful adaptations. But now I feel a ‘faithful’ adaptation is not possible in any medium by anybody. My early impressions of Poe’s work came from Roger Corman’s/Richard Matheson’s versions of some Poe stories. Other than the titles, these films have very little to do with Poe’s stories. After thinking about other possible directions they might have taken, other possible amplifications, they all represent a departure from the original intent. However this certainly won’t stop countless writers and artists (and me) from doing their own take on Poe’s stories. So, resolved not to do ‘faithful’ adaptations, I am freed to let the inspiration flow. Yes, the stories and poems are ‘springboards’ for my interpretations.”
— Richard Corben
Problem with comment forms fixed… I hope…
It just came to my attention this morning that Jetpack for WordPress has not been playing nicely with the comment forms here on RCN. For those, like myself, who are logged in to the blog most of the time, no error was visible. But for those who are not commonly logged in, no comment form was visible!
To fix the error without weakening the security measures I implemented to prevent RCN from being hacked (again), I have had to delete the Jetpack plugin. I had thought it would be a boon to RCN for visitors to be able to post via their WordPress, Twitter, or Facebook account, but it turns out that the party was over before it even got a chance to start.
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