Sword & Sorcery Goes North
Sword & Sorcery comics, especially long-running ones like Conan the Barbarian, will eventually take their cast to the frozen North. When they do it is Read More
Tag: Frank Frazetta
Link: Sword & Sorcery – What’s in a Name?
Sword & Sorcery has become a term of derision since the 1980s. There are good reasons for this but much of that derision is out Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Steve Ditko (1927-2018)
Steve, along with Wally Wood, Gray Morrow and Frank Frazetta, was one of the old pros who did Sword & Sorcery comics in the late Read More
Link: Close to the Edge: Albums For Science Fiction Fans
I think the first sign that you’re “getting old” is you start wishing everything was the way it “used to be.” In most things, I Read More
Thun’Da, King of the Congo
Thun’Da began late in the Jungle Lord game. Roger Drum, air force pilot literally falls into the position of vine swinger to become Thun’Da of Read More
Link: The Jungle Cover Triangle
Looking at copies of Jumbo Tales I was first struck by how lush these covers were (and who could refuse buying them?), but secondly how Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery Cliche No. 2: Barbarian Bikinis
I believe the movie was Spartacus (1960) with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. In an early scene, the trainer of the gladiators is showing the Read More
The Covers That Time Forgot!
When you are an avid Burroughian like myself, it is very hard to find images you haven’t seen countless times. You goggle at the Frazettas, Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery and J. R. R. Tolkien
In September 1937 an English Don named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien published a children’s book called The Hobbit. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, Read More