Brom

Arnie Fenner

John Fleskes

Brom has collected together the very best of his art spanning his 30 year career. Many pieces have never before been published. Brom has written an insightful autobiography sharing his artistic journey from his earliest childhood drawings, his frustrations with commercial art, challenges breaking into the industry, to his years working in games and film, and insights into his latest personal works. Brom’s art is a harmony of extremes: dark and beautiful, haunting and inspiring, majestic and raw. The Art of Brom is equally diverse. Here are images made iconic through his illustrated novels and his work in film and games. Many of the book’s images, including those previously published, have been rescanned from the original artwork, and color-corrected by the artist himself, ensuring meticulous reproduction quality. Furthermore, this collection is designed by Brom allowing him the opportunity to arrange his art in a personal manner, with large full-color images and details to show his brush work.

The Art of Brom

Cathy Fenner

The increasing popularity of fantasy and science fiction themes in art is celebrated in the annual Spectrum series. This is the premier venue for such art, a lavishly illustrated volume and an invaluable resource, eagerly awaited by art directors, illustrators, and readers alike. Drawn from books, comics, magazines, art galleries, advertisements, and portfolios, each Spectrum represents a who's who in fantasy today. With a wider reach than any previous edition, Spectrum 12 features 350 works by artists from Germany, England, the Netherlands, Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada, France, and the United States. Divided into seven categories, including one each devoted to comics and graphic novels, the illustrations expand the boundaries of the imagination and explore new realms of creativity. Among the artists included are Justin Sweet, Brad Holland, Greg Ruth, Lawrence Northey, Arthur Suydam, and H.R. Giger. A handy index provides contact information for each artist.

The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

Spectrum 13

For a quarter of a century, pulp magazines were the most popular entertainment medium in America. Read by everyone from schoolchildren to businessmen, their contents ranged from hard-boiled detective yarns to sci-fi to syrupy love stories. Their sensational and often lurid cover illustrations were considered low-grade trash by the literary and artistic standards of their day, but time has a funny way of changing things. Now deemed Americana Pop Art, the original illustrations fetch thousands of dollars at auctions. Strange Days presents 32 full-color, framable examples of this gaudy but appealing genre. Included are works by some of its most renowned artists, including Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage, Jerome Rozen, Enoch Bolles, and Walter Baumhoffer. Presented in an oversized 11” x 15” format and printed on heavy stock, Strange Days is a must-have collection for any pulp or period art fan.

Aliens, Adventurers, Devils, and Dames

Strange Days

Jim Steranko

Dave Stevens

Brush with Passion charts the career of Dave Stevens, one of the most beloved and influential of all comic illustrators. He discusses his beginnings as a comic artist, the struggle to bring The Rocketeer to the big screen, his work as a storyboard artist for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson’s "Thriller” video, and other career highlights. Equally renowned as a pin-up artist, Stevens also recounts his friendship with reclusive model Bettie Page. Along with a wealth of iconic paintings and previously unpublished artwork, the book features commentary by comic book greats Todd Schorr, Richard Hescox, Michael William Kaluta, and William Stout.

The Art & Life of Dave Stevens

Brush with Passion

Frank Frazetta

This final entry in Arnie and Cathy Fenner’s Frazetta trilogy features 150 full-color paintings by the renowned artist and illustrator, ranging in subject matter from barbarian battles to erotica to religious art, as well as photos from his personal archives, including shots of George Lucas visiting the Frazetta estate and Bo Derek posing for one of his alluring femme fatales. Comments and anecdotes by the artist and the editors, along with testimonials from graphic-art luminaries Dave Stevens, Bruce Timm, and Bernie Wrightson, flesh out this portrait of the artist.

A Celebration of the Life & Art of Frank Frazetta

Testament

John Jude Palencar

"John Jude Palencar has painted book covers and illustrated the works of Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Christopher Paolini, and many others. He is probably best known for his covers to the fantasy movels of Christopher Paolini, author of ERAGON and ELDEST. The best of these illsutrations are included in this volume. Origins is the first collection of Palencar's work. "

The Art of John Jude Palencar

Origins

Cathy Burnett

Jeff Jones

When his work appeared professionally in the 1960's, Jeffrey Jones soon became one of the most respected creators of fantasy and science fiction art. Comfortable as both book cover illustrator and comics artist, Jones gained a large and loyal following. Especially popular for his paintings of beautiful women, he decided to concentrate on a series of works exploring the feminine mystique. Age of Innocence: The Romantic Art of Jeffrey Jones is the glorious result of this artist's fascination with the female form. Included are 44 masterful works celebrating women, 30 of which are published here for the first time. Displaying classical fantasy, romantic and sensual themes, Jones' visions are erotic, playful, thoughtful and frequently breathtaking.

The Romantic Art of Jeffrey Jones

Age of Innocence

Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison® has a lot to say; as one of America's most honored entertainers, he has been writing fiction and commentary, and speaking on college campuses and television talk shows, and challenging his audiences to think outside the box for sixty years. With 90 books bearing his by-line and thousands of stories and essays and anecdotes and speeches and interviews to his credit, Harlan Ellison® has written countless memorable lines in the course of his career. BUGF#CK (a word that Ellison coined in the 1960s and a favorite of Stephen King's) wonderfully and unforgettably gathers some of Harlan's best bon mots. "The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." "K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere." "The problem with being a pain in the ass is that you never quite know who's trying to get you." "Why do people keep insisting that I join the 21st Century? I *LIVE* in the 21st Century! I just don't want to be bothered by the shitheads on the internet!" "I have no mouth. And I must scream." "I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar."

The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison

Bugf#ck

Robert E. Howard

H. P. Lovecraft

As one of the three most important American pulp fantasy authors of the 1930s (with Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith), Robert E. Howard captivated readers with his indomitable, battle-scarred barbarian hero Conan. Though Howard's life ended prematurely in 1936 at the age of 30, Conan lives on as one of the genre's most enduring icons. This beautifully designed collection contains nine essential Conan stories along with a full-length Conan novel. Also included is The Hyborean Age, Howard's fascinating history of the raw, blood-drenched world Conan inhabited, an alternative Earth that preceded Tolkien's Middle Earth. And Their Memory Was a Bitter Tree features a color map of this realm and an interior painting by cult artist Brom, along with a series of Frank Frazetta's seminal Conan paintings, appearing for the first time with the stories for which they were created.

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