I just found out that Neal Adams turned eighty years old last week. I’m short on time but respects must be paid and props must be given. Neal Adams revolutionized the look of comics in the 1960s. He went on to create some of the coolest renditions of Tarzan and Conan ever…and he didn’t stop there.
Read MoreThere is a unique thrill in being able to read a work of fiction that few alive today have read. The Cosmic Courtship was written by Julian Hawthorne; the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published in All Story Weekly over four issues in the latter part of 1917, never to see print again; essentially making this story very rare and expensive to collect. Cirsova Publishing seeks to remedy that.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, Elric, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborea, Frank Frazetta, Henry Kuttner, and more.
Read MoreThe 2020 and 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation awards were handed out in Cross Plains last weekend. While you might have seen the list of winners already, you may not realize how some of the recipients are connected to the DMR Books Blog. Check it out.
Read MoreThis week: Lots of Robert E. Howard articles, plus C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Beowulf, sword and planet, cosmic horror, and more.
Read MoreRoy 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.
Read MoreI indulge myself with the belief that Robert E. Howard was, in fact, a ghostly presence in the writers’ room of the STARZ pirate drama Black Sails, where his spectral hand pushed the quill in playing out his foundational theme of civilization vs. barbarism. For that is the underlying theme of this fine, though underrated show.
Read MoreThe Frazetta Art Museum, designed by Frank himself and housing a treasure-trove of his iconic artwork, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Read MoreWhen thinking about weird fiction elements in sword and sorcery pieces, I wonder what kind of weird essence has usually been attached to it. What are the parts from weird fiction that normally make it into a sword and sorcery tale? When I think of weird fiction elements in S&S, I think of the uncanny, the indescribable, the inevitable, the unnamable…
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