When Conan Met Elric: A Sword & Sorcery Milestone (Part One)
Yesterday was Michael Moorcock’s birthday. Today, I tell the tale of when I first encountered Moorcock and Elric of Melniboné. It was a landmark in my Sword-and-Sorcery journey.
Read MoreRoy Thomas: The Greatest Living Comics Writer/Editor?
Roy Thomas has been there and done that. Whether it’s bringing Conan to Marvel Comics or his taking over as editor-in-chief of Marvel after Stan Lee in the 1970s or his pivotal role in adapting sword & sorcery to the comics medium for the past half-century, Roy Thomas is a titanic figure in the history of post-WWII comics. Raise your mead-horn high.
Read MoreJoe Jusko's 'Savage Sword' Covers
Joe Jusko painted some great covers for The Savage Sword of Conan back in the day. Here are a few of them.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords (and Strange Sorceries) of Frank Brunner
Frank Brunner became a fantasy art legend in the ‘70s illustrating the likes of Conan, Elric, Red Sonja and Doctor Strange.
Read MoreJim Steranko: Living Legend
Jim Steranko is a true living legend. Artist, writer, rock n’ roll guitarist, stage magician, historian and publisher. A friend of Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola. Raise a glass of something expensive in honor of Jim's time thus far on this mortal coil. He's already lived the lives of at least three average cool dudes.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords of Neal Adams
Admired by everyone from Frank Miller to Neil Gaiman, Neal Adams brought a ferocity, dynamism and grimness to his art not often seen then or now.
Read MoreBig John Buscema’s Conan
In a 1978 interview John Buscema said, “I hate [drawing superheroes] with a passion. I told Marvel, I’d like to do Conan exclusively. It’s the only project in comics that I’ve ever done that I really enjoy.”
Read MoreArak, Son of Thunder -- Forty Years On
Arak #1 debuted from DC Comics in September of 1981. Created and written by Roy Thomas, it introduced a sword-and-sorcery protagonist who would out-perform every other S&S comics title in the 1980s with the exceptions of Conan the Barbarian and Mike Grell’s The Warlord.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords of Gene Day
Gene Day—artist, author, publisher and cool dude in general—would’ve turned seventy today. He barely made it past thirty. While his talents and achievements were far-ranging, I’ll concentrate on his work for The Savage Sword of Conan tonight.
Read MoreThat Time When Roy Thomas Influenced Conan the Buccaneer...
Roy Thomas is the Guest of Honor at Howard Days this year. That makes his second round as GoH, with his first being during the REH Centennial in 2006…an honor that few others can claim. What you may not realize is that Roy probably had an influence on the original run of Lancer Conans before Conan the Barbarian #1 was ever published by Marvel.
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