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Fantastic Conan sketch by Patch Zircher.

@delilahsdawson.bsky.social Paperback in the House at Dr. No's Comics, Marietta Ga. On the wall with the new comics.

This one could be yours.

Here's a fantastic Ron Wilson FF page, inked by Joe Sinnott.

For Black History month a lot of folks are celebrating the work of black comics creators. Two of my favorites are Keith Pollard and Ron Wilson, who did fantastic work. Basically I wanted to be these guys, working in the classic Marvel style in the Kirby/Buscema tradition. So much great comics art.

Got my comp of SNAFU:Contagion today. That makes 7 appearances in the series so far. The last two had Sir Gawain stories and the third Gawain yarn published is in CASTLE OF HORROR vol 12.

What it feels like digging through all these old paperbacks.

Digging through Conan pastiches this morning. Just a small sampling. Bloody things are everywhere on my shelves.

Currently reading. I've mentioned I enjoy a lot of the de Camp/Carter Conan stories. I don't care for the unnecessary rewrites and edits of REH in the short story collections, but the original yarns tend to be a lot of fun. Sprague's knowledge of history worked well with Lin's headlong writing.

Writing an action scene set in the 1300s this morning and for a few paragraphs I had to read two articles, watch three videos, and find an account of the weapons and armor of John Hawkwood's White Company circa 1361. Very little of that actually made it into the writing, but I had to know it.

Barry Windsor Smith art for the Avengers. Even when doing superheroes his pre-Raphaelite sensibilities were showing. Look at the grass and the trees, and look at the Hulk in the background, dappled by shadows.

I've got a real weakness for these paintings of Gothic collonade/potico/cloisters. This one's by Louis Daguerre, from the 1820s.

Post a mage.

@briankeene.bsky.social I have an Alex McVey original as well (saw yours on your Patreon) Alex sent this to Jim, but because Blind Shadows was my first novel, Jim gave it to me. He was like that, as you know.

2/2 In the CAS story the heroes vist the city of Zul-Bha-Sair, which is the setting of my favorite CAS story, THE CHARNEL GOD, so I had to reread that. Now I've gone down a CAS rabbit hole, because me. Nice @danbrereton.bsky.social cover on that Conan comic too.

1/2 How these things happen. I'd been reminded that Roy Thomas's story in the final issue of CONAN THE SAVAGE was 'freely adapted' from Clark Ashton Smith's story NECROMANCY IN NAAT, so I read the story and read the comic.

Dayum, That is one awesome Conan illo by Rob De La Torre. Well done, sir.

After Marvel Comics cancelled THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, they did come back with another Black & White, magazine-sized Conan book, CONAN THE SAVAGE. It only ran 10 issues, and as far as I know hasn't been reprinted. I have the run, but it would be nice to get a trade with all this material.

Happy Birthday to Lon Chaney Jr!

Roy Thomas returns to Conan in the next issue of SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN. Yowza!

Dr. Spektor artist Jesse Santos was also an accomplished portrait artist.

My favorite Frazetta Painting.

Happy Birthday, Frank!

It also is the birthday of artist/writer Timothy Truman. A while back I got Tim to draw this commission of Grimjack and Conan, both characters he had worked on. When I opened it up I was super thrilled to find he'd included Bob the Watch Lizard. Happy Birthday, sir!

When I was a kid I had a recurring dream about a creek near my house that led to a swamp. There were dinosaurs there. Once, the swamp dried up and the dinos got out. Years later, I learned that Frank Frazetta had pretty much painted my dream. Happy Birthday Frank. You're the best.

Very thoughtful and amazingly cool Birthday Gift from my friend, Amanda. I had mentioned a while back I wanted a copy of the novelization of my favorite Nightmare on Elmstreet movie, WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE, and Amanda remembered and found me a copy. I am absolutely tickled with it.

Among the things I've been reading this weekend.

Bed Spring Cosh is my new band name.

Sal's early work looked a lot more like his brother John's than it later would.

Change, change, oh form of man...

Some of my favorite Rich Buckler Superman covers too. 13thdimension.com/paul-kupperb...

By the way, I make a damn fine cup of coffee.

I've got a low carb peanut butter wrap, some Icelandic Yogurt, a big cup of coffee and Brian Keene's newsletter. It's dark, and I'm wearing sunglasses.

Coming on June 23rd. Pre-order here: www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/boo...

Pro tip. If you find yourself descending into madness, remember to roll your eyes and shout, "The crypt! Oh God, the crypt!" Really gets that Lovecraftian feel into the proceedings.

This morning's excursion into overly florid Regency Gothic Horror Sword & Sorcery is brought to you by Virginia Coffman, de Camp/Carter, Jane Austen, and the letters H,P, and L.

My new band name is 'Devastating Ennui', by the way.

And yes, I did have the full set with the Michael Whelan covers, but a friend lost ALL her ERB books in a house fire so I sent her that set.

Here are my original John Carter of Mars books with covers by Gino D' Achille. Plus A Guide to Barsoom with a cover by Boris.

Here's the whole set of Robert Abbet covers. There's also an alternate cover for Thuvia, which I have somewhere, but I bought these as a set.

A post by a friend reminded me of how much I loved the Barsoomian airships of Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books, and what a big part of the series they were. These three covers by Robert Abbet are probably my favorite depiction of the Martian Fliers.

Morgan Freeman and Dinosaurs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

Awesome news!

This turned out to be a lot of fun. The FF, without their powers, end up on the Planet of the Apes, apparently between the events of PotA and Beneath the PotA, and run into Zira, Cornelius, Dr. Zaius, general Ursus, etc. Plus the Watcher and the Red Ghost and his super apes. Fun stuff.

It's my Birthday today. Fittingly, I share a birthday with one screen Dracula, John Carradine, and with Quentin Collins, David Selby, and artist H.R. Giger.

It's finally here-- my cozy witch Romance set in the north Georgia Mountains! Available wherever you buy your books in paperback, ebook, and audio. And book tour starts tonight! Please reskeet to share the love! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745676...

I always enjoy Mike's art.