Legendary artist, Barry Windsor-Smith, turns seventy years old today. Over the course of his more than fifty-year career, BWS has created many of the most iconic images of Conan and Wolverine ever, as well as painting some of the best fantasy art of the last half-century.
Read MoreSir Arthur Conan Doyle would have turned one hundred and sixty today. He had a major and lasting influence on sword and sorcery, especially on Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreArtist Ken Kelly turns seventy-three today. Among many other things, he can boast a proud legacy of heavy metal cover paintings that spans five decades.
Read MoreThis week: Moorcock, ERB, Zelazny, Frazetta, Brackett, Vance, and much more.
Read MoreSet in the summer of the year 55 B.C., “Tros of Samothrace” tells of Julius Caesar’s first invasion of Britain and those caught up in the turmoil of one of Caesar’s wars.
Read MoreThis week: Howard, Brackett, Gene Wolfe, George R.R. Martin, Bruce Pennington and more.
Read MoreUK artist, Bruce Pennington, turns seventy-five years young today. Bruce has done loads of great art in the sub-genres of sword and sorcery/heroic fantasy, sword and planet and Dying Earth fiction. Right in the DMR Books wheel-house!
Read MoreIn my last post, I discussed Gene Wolfe's life, his funeral and how I came to be a fan of his work. Now, I'd like to take a look at Gene's writing style, as well as recommending some of his novels.
Read MoreGene Wolfe would have turned eighty-eight years old yesterday. Mr. Wolfe died a few weeks ago on April 14. The man had lived to a ripe old age, and was suffering from various physical and mental ailments as a result of that, but it still hit me hard. A titan of literature had gone from our midst.
Read MoreThe King of the Pulps died on this date seventy years ago today. Henry James O’Brien Bedford-Jones, better-known to his millions of fans during the pulp era as "H. Bedford-Jones," passed away in his comfortable Beverly Hills home after forty years of living well off his pulp fiction.
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