Stanley C. Sargent was born and raised in Beavercreek, Ohio (suburb of Dayton). He then moved to San Francisco to be a hippie and find the freedom to be gay when he was seventeen. He has lived in San Francisco ever since, creating fiction and art in the horror, and more specifically, in the Mythos genre. His black and white work beckons back to the best of the old pulps, using a pointillism reminiscent of the best of Hannes Bok’s work. Stan’s art is creepy not only for its mood but also for the fantastic strangeness which the denizens of his illustrations portray.
Entirely self-trained, he sites the influence of the classic pulp masters Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok (the latter being someone he relates to as Bok was also gay). Stan also lists the computer artist, Dan Ross, and The Lovecraft Tarot deck artist, Daryl Hutchinson, as contemporaries he admires.
Aside from pulp illustration, Stan looks to classic Mayan fine-line vase painting and other ancient styles for his inspiration. He explains, “I’ve been criticized for a ‘comic’ look that often pops up in my drawings (not my paintings much); I attribute that to the Mayan influence to a great degree. Very few people see the Mayan vase painting art (which I collect in book form), so it often startles them when I combine my imagery with some of the Mayan imagery.”
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