Sunday, December 29, 2024

Au Revoir Larry Todd

We lost an amaz'n artist this year, and I hope some circumstances align to post a real tribute sometime soon




 

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  1. RussDecember 30, 2024 at 8:15 AM

    I just had a look at the obit over at Comics Journal. It turns out he did a lot of work I was totally unaware of, carnival paintings, weird drug machinery and fantasy art. I hope Fantagraphics puts together a book on him like they've done on other undergrounders.

    I think I first saw his work in Eerie, the "Starvisions" story. In my mind he existed in a not-quite-underground limbo somewhere between Bode and Ron Cobb.

    During that 70's poster/portfolio craze, most of the art was trying to emulate Frazetta or BWS, but there were a few hyper-intense images that stood out as unique and hypnotic. Moby Gleep has got to be one of the absolute best, and it's what comes to mind whenever I think of Todd. (Another poster that shook me at the time was Tim Conrad's "Assassin of Time.")

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  2. Cap'n's ComicsDecember 31, 2024 at 10:57 AM

    You're so spot on. I have gradually seen more and more Larry Todd as I "snoop" around, and am continually delighted. The stuff in the sci-fi magazines (much done with Bode) was greatgreat, and as you say, so much more. Starvision was incredible (check out the blue proof of that cover, if you haven't seen it yet), but my first exposure to Todd came in Skull, when he did Lovecraft's The Shadow From The Abyss, and transcended the undergrounds entirely.
    Conrad's Assassin is awesome, and always made me think of Maxfield Parrish, but my fav by him was a small 1977 poster called Immortality

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  3. RussDecember 31, 2024 at 11:36 AM

    Totally forgot that Daydreams portfolio that included Immortality. Weird and beautiful, just like this blog. Happy New Year, Cap.

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