Samhain draws nigh. Just in time for the occasion, I found a darksome tale within the Book of Faces. Jim FitzPatrick, Ireland’s greatest living artist, posted today on his FB account an uncanny experience from over sixty years ago.
Read More1976 was a pivotal year in the history of hard rock/metal and Thin Lizzy was a big part of that. Jim FitzPatrick has said of his cover art for Lizzy’s Johnny the Fox: ”From an artist’s perspective, I consider this my best Thin Lizzy album cover.”
Read MoreBrian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreJim Reasoner is a scholar of Robert E. Howard and the pulps. He has also written hundreds of novels in various pulpish genres, some of them bestsellers. Now, he’s weighed in on DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreNext month DMR Books will release Celtic Adventures, a collection of overlooked stories from the pulp and pre-pulp eras. The tales in this collection all take place in either Ireland or Scotland, and run the gamut from purely historical to the fantastic to the weirdly horrific.
Read MoreBeltaine and Samhain were the two main anchor-points of the Gaelic calendar. Jim FitzPatrick has created classic art over the years that illustrates events in Ireland associated with Beltaine.
Read MoreThe Battle of Clontarf was an inspiration to Robert E. Howard. It also inspired numerous excellent works of art, especially during the last half-century.
Read MorePay heed, fans of sword-and-sorcery, horror and exotic adventure! The 2024 DMR Books Guest Bloggerama draws nigh. Now in its sixth triumphant year, our 2024 Guest Bloggerama promises to be another great one, bringing back plenty of notable bloggers and authors to stand in the DMR Books shield-wall once again.
Read MoreI’ve long thought about what a shame it was that Irish fantasy artist extraordinaire, Jim FitzPatrick, hadn’t been hired by Ace Books to do the covers for Keith Taylor’s ‘Danans’ series of heroic fantasy novels. Thus, this post.
Read MoreI’ve always had a guilty fondness for 1980’s Hawk the Slayer. Imagine my surprise when legendary artist, Jim FitzPatrick, revealed on Facebook that the movie’s production company had approached him to do some art back in the day.
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