1970 Jeff Jones - yes! Hopefully you find out what this is for. 

Conan and Solomon Kane. The image of Kane is a front cover for 'The Saga of Solomon Kane'. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saga-Solomon-Kane-Robert-Howard/dp/1595823174

Good to see the Dorian's put up here on CAF. 

A wonderful illustration! One of the best I've seen of Bran Mak Morn, really atmospheric. Many artists have illustrated him, Virgil Finlay, Jeff Jones, BWS, Frazetta, Sanjulian, Ken Kelly, etc. Great purchase!

Great Frankenstein's monster. Just need to find that elusive Theodor von Holst drawing! 

On my list of great illustrators - congrats on the great piece!!

Pleased to see you get this one. Grail in the pool room!

Nice image. Would be nice to find the story it was illustrated for.

Yes the monster is bigger, she is similar in both, but Conan swinging his sword in the other is cool. But it's lovely to have both Norem's prelim ideas together. 

Yes there have been many artworks on this Tennyson poem, especially in the Pre Raphaelite scene. My first ever visit to the Tate in London secured my love of art. The artworks that really impressed me that day, and still to today, were Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, and the three huge paintings by John Martin of the Judgement Series. Glad you liked 

Yes it has a look of a Fortunino Matania sketch, or of course Roy Krenkel, who was influenced by Matania. 

Thanks, yeah it's a great scene. I think the woman with a small dinosaur on a lead and the child with a pull-along dino is great.

Marcus, congrats on finding the lines from Canto 6. Hope you like the image. All the other images by Dore for Dante's book are visually wonderful. Dante's story and Dore's illustrations go so well together! 

Lovely piece. Matania was a wonderful artist and illustrator. I'm lucky that I have a couple of pieces by him.

Hi, this may help.

ST. NICHOLAS: AN Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks CONDUCTED BY MARY MAPES DODGE. VOLUME XXXI. Part I., November, 1903, to April, 1904. THE CENTURY CO., NEW YORK MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co. The De Vinne Press.

Coming FROM THE Fair. Verse. (Illustrated by Margaret Ely Webb) Laura E. Richards p.136

Yeah that would be cool. Jeff is still alive so he would have to sort this as he no doubt still has the rights.

Nice read, and good that it ended up in your collection especially after your disappointment of seeing it sold. 

Yes. Also superb forearms he had!

Wonderful image!

That sounds a lot of fun! Thanks 

Yeah there were many props offered for sale in the auction. The artwork is easy to keep, either in a portfolio or on the wall, and I do collect art after all. The series was my favourite tv series ever, strong characters, lots of action and great stories (historically things altered a bit), watched it all and I loved every season.  Did you like it Marcus?

Yes it does, untill you look close up. Adams also puts some decor on the shield. Adams went on to produce awesome illustrations of buildingsfor his work in later years. Would be interesting to see a fantasy work down in a townscape now. I have noticed him on instagram and may reach out to him. Thanks

Yes it is. It is a shame that modern politicians and people in power were not like Dentatus, incorruptible! 

Glad you like. A lot different to the normal comic stuff on CAF. William Morris of arts & craft fame started Morris & Co, and they were the place to go for the highest class stained glass work, and of course all arts & craft designed work, and they had the best artists in the UK at the time, Edward Burne Jones being the head designer. Many of their windows still survive, and I hope to view this one on a trip to Scotland one day.

Nice to see the Nightmare painting on the wall!

Always great seeing a Matania I've not seen before

Yes very true!

Thanks! Yeah plenty of good pages and ideas. Shame it never came to a finished comic. But John put his drawings all together in these books and I was lucky enough to buy them at auction. 

It could be, but my hunch is it's the study to work from. But we'll never know. I've found some of his sculptures online, but not this one. I trained as a sculptor for a year, and taking away on stone and marble is so much tougher than building up with clay. 

Marcus, not only do you know about comic art but also about theology. Yes Jesus does bring the girl back to life. I myself am not really a religious person, but when I look at this image on the wall it is very calming.

Thanks. Shame this venture didn't end up in print. There are a good few others with that 19th century feel. 

I wish the whole story was in the sketchbooks. There are other panels that seem to be linked. I'll post others up later. Thanks

Great cover. 

Yes Walter had a wonderful style, and along with this story by the famous arts and crafts movement William Morris, it makes a beautiful book. There were only a few hundred copies published of the first edition with Crane's illustrations, and so it's an expensive book to purchase. They did a facsimilie version which we have. 

Anyway hope you like the different stuff we bring to this site! Thanks Marcus.

Oh yeah a lot of fun was had in the Georgian times. It got a bit more prudish in Victorian times, but of course still happened. The 'fun times' didn't happen with the ladies, unless they were involved in threesomes. The courtesans were brought in.

There is a very large collection of Rowlandson erotic work in the Victoria & Albert museum. It's not on show, but you can view it either online, or in front of you if you request a pre booked visit. My wife was down there to view some Walter Crane illustrations the other week, not erotic items haha

Absolutely! Thanks

Great piece. His attention to detail is always superb!

I always like seeing those pencil ideas in the prelim work. I have quite a few of Earl Norem's prelims for SSoC. Look forward to seeing the others. 

A very nice selection of Krenkel art!

Nice commentary Marcus. The sketchbooks are full of a variety of sketches and panels and at the moment it is hard to put together the overall story. Thanks

Thanks. This is the first sketch in the first sketchbook but these images are not in any real order. Occasionally they are panels and page numbered. This is the wolf before turning into the werewolf, but there are plenty of standing werewolves and she-wolves. I'll get other pics up on CAF of the other monsters, many unnamed, but names such as Demon, Bog Wraiths, Crawling Feas, Vampire, Eater of Souls, Walking Dead, Nightgaunt, Grand, Creeping Thane, Witch Queen, Mortuary Ghoul, Gorger, are mentioned. 

Thanks. Along with loving fantasy art from the last 100 years, I also love the story telling art from many centuries ago. 

You can find great illustrated pieces by: Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528; Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio c.1499 – 1543; Salvator Rosa 1615 –1673; François Boitard 1667 - 1719; Bernard Picart 1673 – 1733.

Then to the wonderful 'Romantic' period, and the fantasy/horror art from the likes of: Henry Fuseli RA 1741 – 1825; William Blake 1757 – 1827; John Martin 1789 – 1854 and of course Theodor von Holst 1810 – 1844 [who does the first Frankenstein's monster image in a book in 1831].

To get a full run of everything done for a particular SSoC issue would be something. Firstly find out how many different drawings he did (usually two, but sometimes three). From these small pencils, there is then the coloured works of these, which I love. After this, one will artwork will have been chosen by the publishers, and so a large pencil is done, followed by the finished painting. 

Yeah I like both of the alternate prelims, but I also like the one chosen. Earl drew fantastic images.

Great image. I have the previous prelim to this. You can see this and many more Norem Conan's in my Robert Howard page. Keep up the good work. 

Yeah the prelim scale is far better as the artist Les knew too. 

Many pencil and ink studies have more life in them than the finished painting. I have studies back to the 18th century and it was the same then. Or maybe it's just me who likes pencil/ink/wash loose idea drawings. 

Yeah it works well on the spine as it's a thick book. But for some reason they left off the severed head! 

Very nice piece!

Superb piece!