Today marks the seventy-fifth birthday of the wildly talented artist, John Bolton. While he is, perhaps, more famous for his Kull covers for Marvel Comics, I want to focus on his Dark Horse Cormac Mac Art and Bran Mak Morn covers.
Read MoreGil Kane was a titanic force in comics during the 1960s and 1970s, and he kept on creating cool comic art almost until his death in the year 2000. Mr. Kane was known for being a fan of the pulps. He played a special role in my own Sword-and-Sorcery journey.
Read MoreRoy Thomas was instrumental in bringing Howardian and Lovecraftian concepts and characters to Marvel Comics during the early 1970s. Far lesser-known are his efforts to get the word out about Clark Ashton Smith in the mid-1990s by way of Marvel’s Conan comics.
Read MoreYesterday 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 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 painted some great covers for The Savage Sword of Conan back in the day. Here are a few of them.
Read MoreFrank Brunner became a fantasy art legend in the ‘70s illustrating the likes of Conan, Elric, Red Sonja and Doctor Strange.
Read MoreJim 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 MoreAdmired 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 MoreIn 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.”
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