Chump Stumpery 101

A customer asked if we had any Kay Neilsen illustrated books. Answer:  Huh ?
Research reveals:  Kay Neilsen
Further research reveals a very good research site:  Sur La Lune Fairy Tales
Enjoy !

Busty & Butty Chicks with Big Hair

Frank Frazetta the heroic fantasy cover artist, is known for, to use current parlance, hot chicks, in leather, or nothing but skin - big busts, big butts, big hair. They pair - no pun intended - very nicely with his massive thighed, heroic men with big swords and bigger muscles. Think Sophia Loren in her heyday and Ahhhnold with no accent. But wait, there's more to our Frank.

A Feast for the Eyes, as promised

 Ballantine Adult Fantasy cover artists:
Gervasio Gallardo
Bob Pepper
David McCall Johnston

I Don't Know Nuthin !

The very best part of the book business is finding out how much you don't know. As I've mentioned a number of times before, our customers provide us with many thousands of dollars worth of education, and sometimes even we make a mistake, and educate ourselves.

Do You Know the Way to Sanjulian ?

Robert E. Howard's heroic fantasy is highly collectible - you know: Conan the Arnold before he became Guvuhn Ore, and when he couldn't speak English a little. Although Frank Frazetta did much of the cover art for the paperbacks, we found one of the Bran Mak Morn books today, with cover art by Manuel Pérez Clemente.

Science Fiction Artists III

Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) inspired an entire generation of astronomers, artists, writers, engineers and visionaries with his remarkable paintings. Living to the age of 98, he saw the entire scope of manned flight, and himself influenced mankind's push into outer space.Trained as an architect, Bonestell (pronounced BONN-i-stell) lost his first painting of Saturn in the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Later, as Hollywood's highest paid special effects artist, he worked on such classics as the original “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Citizen Kane” through the 1950's “Destination Moon” and “War of the Worlds.”

Science Fiction Artists II

Frank Frazetta   (1928 - 2010) was a versatile and prolific comic book artist who, in the 1940s and ’50s, drew for comic strips like Al Capp’s “Lil’ Abner” and comic books like “Famous Funnies,” for which he contributed a series of covers depicting the futuristic adventurer Buck Rogers.
A satirical advertisement Mr. Frazetta drew for Mad magazine earned him his first Hollywood job, the movie poster for “What’s New Pussycat?” (1965), a sex farce written by Woody Allen that starred Peter Sellers. In 1983 he collaborated with the director Ralph Bakshi to produce the animated film “Fire and Ice.”

Science Fiction Artists I

Recognized as the most prolific and popular Science Fiction artist worldwide, (Frank) Kelly Freas illustrated stories by some of Science Fiction's greatest writers: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson, and Frederik Pohl, to name just a few. Nominated an unprecedented twenty times, Freas was the first to receive ten Hugo Awards (World Science Fiction "Oscars) for achievement in the field as Best Professional Artist.