Look Here: Four more F/SF covers with art by Bob Pepper

8 September 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Freshly scanned, just for you, the long-suffering followers of Ragged Claws Network:

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**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Islands in the Sky* (NY: Signet, 1960), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *Seed of Light* (NY: Ballantine, 1969), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Evangeline Walton, *The Island of the Mighty* (NY: Ballantine 1974), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *Legends from the End of Time* (NY: Daw Books, 1977), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

Sorry I’ve been so slow to post updates. Fact is, as the site has grown, I’ve had to worry more and more about how to reduce RCN’s CPU usage. I’ve already scaled back various bells and whistles on the site, and I’ve reduced my own activity in the admin section to a bare minimum, but I fear the day is coming when I will be forced to upgrade the site to a more expensive hosting package… or shut it down… ugh…

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Frank Frazetta · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: DARK CRUSADE and five others with cover art by Frazetta

1 May 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

My books. My scans. You’re welcome.

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**ABOVE:** Karl Edward Wagner, *Dark Crusade* (NY: Warner Books, 1983), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Silver Warriors* (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

**ABOVE:** Richard A. Lupoff, *Into the Aether* (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

**ABOVE:** Edgar Rice Burroughs, *The Moon Men* (NY: Ace, 1978), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

**ABOVE:** Karl Edward Wagner, *Bloodstone* (NY: Warner Books, 1983), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

**ABOVE:** Robert E. Howard, *Conan the Warrior* (NY: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.

Bob Haberfield · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: The Runestaff tetralogy, with cover art by Bob Haberfield

10 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I posted two of the Runestaff covers displayed below back in October 2013, but the other two are freshly scanned from old paperbacks that I purchased yesterday at a 60% discount from a local used bookstore that is closing its doors for good at the end of the month:

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**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Jewel in the Skull* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1973), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Mad God’s Amulet* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1974), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Sword of the Dawn* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1975), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Runestaff* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1975), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Stanislaw Fernandes

Look Here: Two by Clarke and two by Moorcock with cover art by Fernandes

1 December 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Since I started TRANSISTORADIO back in August, I have been even slower to post new stuff here at RCN than I used to be, but this evening, I found the time to scan and process four covers with airbrush art by Stanislaw Fernandes, whose work has been featured once before here at RCN. Enjoy!

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**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Reach for Tomorrow* (NY: Ballantine, 1972), 29474, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Childhood’s End* (NY: Ballantine, 1974), 29730, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Cornelius Chronicles* (NY: Avon, 1977), 31468, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *An Alien Heat* (NY: Avon, 1977), 34611, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.

Bob Haberfield · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: A pair of Runestaff paperbacks with cover art by Bob Haberfield

18 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Two more Moorcocks with art by Bob Haberfield this morning, as promised yesterday:

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Bob Haberfield · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: Three paperbacks of Corum with cover art by Bob Haberfield

17 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

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**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Knight of the Swords* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1973), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The Queen of the Swords* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1973), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *The King of the Swords* (Frogmore: Mayflower, 1974), with cover art by Bob Haberfield.

I have a couple more Moorcocks with cover art by Haberfield in my collection. Will probably scan and post ’em soon, if not sooner.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Patrick Woodroffe

Look Here: Another psychedelic-surrealist fantasy cover with art by Patrick Woodroffe

10 October 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Back to the treacle well that is my paperback collection:

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**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *A Cure for Cancer: A Jerry Cornelius Novel* (London: Quartet, 1976).

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Look Here: Two psychedelic-surrealist fantasy covers with art by Patrick Woodroffe

21 July 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

If memory serves, I bought my copy of Patrick Woodroffe’s Mythopoeikon: Fantasies, Monsters, Nightmares, Daydreams on sale at Coles Books in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, back when I was in high school. The younger me was simultaneously impressed by Woodroffe’s illustrations and puzzled by the artist’s obsession with dolls in his personal work. Although I still have that same copy of Mythopoeikon in my collection, I haven’t looked at it in many years, maybe since first-year university. I’m not even sure where I have it shelved… although now that I think of it, I strongly suspect it is in the long row of books behind the stacks of books and papers that sit on the counter of the cabinet behind the wide but narrow drafting table located about three feet from the desk in our office area — oh, what a tight space this is! (If I were to swivel my chair 180 degrees from the desk where I’m typing right now, I’d be sitting at that drafting table; one can walk in this room and sit down and that’s it, there’s no other space left in which to move.) Anyway, assuming I can locate Woodroffe’s book, it just might be time for a trip down memory lane… or not… because it’s such a bother to have to move stuff around! Perhaps these two new scans will suffice:

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Nice. And you know what? My desire to see more Woodroffe art has been assuaged. I’ll dig that book out some other time, maybe…

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Look Here: Another hard rockin’ Powers trio!

19 February 201211 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Once more, with feeling, from the library of yours truly:

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To view all of the covers with art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Alfred Bester · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Heads Up! · Howard Chaykin · Illustration Art · Look Here · Original art vs. printed page

Heads Up: THE ART OF HOWARD CHAYKIN

21 October 201111 August 2016 RC3 Comments

Coming in December from Dynamite Entertainment:

Written by Robert Greenberger, The Art of Howard Chaykin will include a foreword by Brian Michael Bendis and an afterword by Walter Simonson. The product description at Amazon reads as follows:

Legendary for what he has done on the page and infamous for what he has said off it, Howard Chaykin ranks among the superstars of modern comics. In The Art of Howard Chaykin, go behind the scenes with the creator whose pioneering works include American Flagg! and Black Kiss, and experience the stories of his life as only he can tell them. Filled with no-holds-barred perspective from his longtime friends and colleagues, and featuring an extensive selection of artwork from throughout his career, including many never-before-published pieces from Chaykin’s own archives, The Art of Howard Chaykin takes readers on an in-depth journey from the 1970s to today with one of the medium’s great storytellers.

Although we won’t know until The Art of Howard Chaykin is published what work will be reprinted, here’s a gallery of the kind of work that MIGHT appear:

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Actually, Howard Chaykin’s work has been in the spotlight a few times here at RCN. You can click here, for instance, to access a list of links to stories with art by Howard Chaykin and to read the story “Seven Moons’ Light Casts Complex Shadows” by Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin, from Epic Illustrated #2 (June 1980). You can also click here to read “Gideon Faust” by Wein and Chaykin, from Star*Reach #5.