Swords vs. Tentacles
The 1970s saw an explosion in Sword & Sorcery comics and with it a trope that has become almost a cliche: the tentacled monster. The Read More
Category: artwork
Horror Magazine Illustrations & Covers
The artwork from Weird Tales was often as engrossing and unusual as the fiction it illustrated. Names like Virgil Finlay, Boris Dolgov, Lee Brown Coye, Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ernie Chan (1940-2012)
Ernesto Chan was born in the Phillipines in 1940. He came to America in 1970 but had to work as Ernie Chua because of an Read More
The Ballantine Fantasy Series by Per. J. Okerstrom
Late in the summer of 1968 the publishing team of Betty and Ian Ballantine recognized that the success of their edition of J. R. R. Read More
The Dark Poets of Weird Tales
I would describe Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies (1988) as an anthology for people who hate Weird Tales. Despite his loving Read More
Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Comics
In a previous post, we looked at the Pulp illustrations of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & Gray Mouser. This time we will look at the comic Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Gray Morrow (1934-2001)
Gray Morrow (1934-2001) was one of the early cheerleaders for Sword & Sorcery along with Wally Wood and Frank Frazetta. He was one of the Read More
J. Allen St. John at Weird Tales
J. Allen St. John (1872-1957) will always be remembered first and foremost as the artist who brought the imaginative worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs to Read More
DC Comics Versus Pulps Covers
DC Comics spawned some long-running anthology comics in the 1950s including House of Mystery in Horror and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. The editors of Read More
Doc Savage’s Hair: The Coiffe of Bronze
Recently someone in a Doc Savage Facebook group asked a question, and it was a good one. The question was: How did we go from Read More