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: Weird Tales
Michael Kaluta’s Monsters and Machines
Michael W. Kaluta is famous for his horror covers in the 1970s, his Fantasy art both in and out of comics, for The Shadow, and Read More
Link: Hand-Held Thunder: The History of the Blaster
It made sense when Science Fiction went to the stars that the brave men and women who plumbed the depths of space would need weapons Read More
Planet Comics Swipes
Joseph Doolin (1896-1967) was a Pulp illustrator who went into comics in the 1940s. As part of the S. M. Igor shop he worked on Read More
Link: James Rosenquest: Man or Pseudoman?
If you read a lot of old SF mags like I do, you will surely come across names you aren’t familiar with. A quick look Read More
Early Lovecraft Illustrations
The earliest publications of H. P. Lovecraft were in amateur magazines like The Vagrant, so we have to wait until Weird Tales starts in 1923 Read More
The Magazines of Sword & Sorcery
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
Link: The Fangs of Tsan-Lo: Man’s Best Monster
Jim Kjelgaard always had one theme that was closest to his heart: training dogs. It should be no surprise then that he made the big Read More
Link: Star Begotten: A Monstrous Rebuttle
Star Begotten by HG Wells is one of those novels that you rarely see. The science fiction people tend towards the early stuff: The Time Read More
Fantasy Fiction: An Oasis of the Fifties
Fantasy Fiction was a Pulp magazine that ran for only four issues from March to November 1953. It was produced by Future Publications, the publisher Read More