"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"
The charming Christmas cartoon by Hilda Terry that you see above was scanned by me yesterday, on Christmas Eve, from a vintage Christmas card that I purchased for a couple of bucks on ebay earlier this year. Hope you like it!
With best wishes,
RC
On Saturday 13 December 2014 at 12:00 noon CST, thirty pieces of original comic/illustration art by Richard Corben will go on sale via the “Sales” page on the artist’s official website.
The sale will include seven standard comic pages, a double-page spread, and two versions of the cover, the published art in ink along with an unused painted version, from Starr the Slayer #1 (2009), the first nine pages and two promotional images from The House on the Borderland (2000), all seven pages of “The Woodlik Inheritance” from Vampirella #31 (1974), and two pages from a three-page Corben cameo that appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10, #8 (2014).
All artwork is drawn in Sharpie and Pigma pens on 11 x 17 inch Strathmore paper, with the exception of the double-page spread, pages 8 and 9, from House on the Borderland, which is drawn on 22 x 17 inch paper, and “The Woodlik Inheritance,” which is drawn and painted on 13 x 17 inch Bainbridge illustration board using various media including pen and ink, grey and colour pencils, colour markers, colour film, and oil paint.
The small scans that are on the Corben website right now are intended for “viewing only.” Prices will be posted when the sale goes live on Saturday 13 December 2014 at noon CST, at which point the first person to complete the PayPal shopping cart for each page will receive that page.
Just thought long-time friends of RCN might like to know that Richard Corben and his wife, Dona, have tweaked the design of Corben’s website, have added some new content, and have purchased a new domain: CorbenComicArt.com. I’ve already updated all of the links in my previous posts here at RCN to reflect the change, and I encourage others with blogs and websites to do the same.
Have a happy!
RC
Neither of the following novels from the collection of yours truly includes a cover credit, and if the art was signed by the artist, the signature has been cropped out by the designer; nonetheless, it seems likely to me that the artist is Joseph Lombardero, whose Sax Rohmer covers were featured here at RCN back in May of this year:
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ABOVE: Neal Bell, Gone to be Snakes Now (NY: Popular Library, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
As always, if you think/know that I’ve made an attribution error, I welcome your corrections in the comments.
“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”
— Jean Baudrillard
This is the fifth post in a row here at RCN to feature a selection of William Teason’s Agatha Christie covers, which brings the total number of Teason scans in our collection to an uneven twenty one. Enjoy!
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Dead Man’s Mirror (NY: Dell, 1966), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (NY: Dell, 1970), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder after Hours (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
More scans from the collection of yours truly, as usual:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Regatta Mystery (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, An Overdose of Death (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, They Came to Bagdad (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
I have enough Agatha Christie mysteries with cover art by William Teason for one more post, so if you’re a Teason fan, you might want visit RCN again tomorrow for that…
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1967), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Boomerang Clue (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Four more scans, fresh off the flatbed:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Three Acts (NY: Popular Library, 1934), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, N or M? (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Two of the above novels — The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968) and N or M? — include the following credit on the back cover: “Cover Illustration: Teason.” The other two covers are uncredited, but I believe they are also by Teason. If not, please let me know.
The cover art for the following mystery novels is uncredited, and I don’t see any sign of a signature, but my understanding is that the artist here is William Teason:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Big Four (NY: Dell, 1972), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder on the links (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
If my attribution of the above covers to Teason is incorrect, please feel free to post the proper attribution in the comments section below this post. I have quite a few more Agatha Christie mysteries with covers in a similar vein that I plan to scan and post in the very near future, so if the artist here is NOT Teason, I’d prefer to make the correction sooner rather than later…
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