Pencil Me In For Makkalet! by Barry Smith

I was so fired up for some new Barry Smith when Conan #19 came out, I rushed home, plopped on my basement bed with it, and just stared.  Dunno if I started to read it, but I definitely started to devour it panel by panel, and this top panel on page 15 freaked me out, and not in a good way.  I acourse had not even looked for or seen the letters page, which explained they had run out of time to submit to the printers, and Dan Adkins couldn't ink the rest of the issue from here on (could the incredible detail of this panel made it the stop'n point? hhhmmmm....)

 

Genocide Spray! by Jack Kirby

Onea my favorite things about da blog is when I can put up two or three versions of the same picture

 

Comicon Coke by Larry Todd

I can't remember last week, but just look'n at it, I think this was part of a page in The Buyer's Guide For Comic Fandom.  Wonderful illo that harkens back to a lota Todd's other aliens (#Moby Gleep #Broken Sparrow), but why did this one illo take three years to draw?  Among a bazillion other things, I woulda loved to chat with him about that

 

New Frank Frazetta!

Yeah, yeah, just new to me.  The actual paperback for Tarzan And The Lion Man has been in my stacks since I was just a pup, and the pencils were in a local adzine back when I was lion about my age (college), but I never imagined there was this che great rough.  Maybe just me, but Tarzan looks much better in the rough

 

A Hole In The Wall by Roy Krenkel

Another what is this is for the Cap'n.  25 years ago (March, 2001) I printed this offa Monster's tradeart site.  It probly even told what it is for/from, but I see it in my binders every onceina, and wonder.  If you know, shoot me a comment, please

Never mind!  This got me look'n for the elusive Scarlet Citadel Roy was working on at his passing, and I saw this as parta Sowers Of Thunder (more later)

 

Long Ago And Yet To Come by George Metzger

Here's another great picture from the comic that gets my nomination for the longest title:  Airships of Atlantis Discover...Mu The Land That Never Was (Or Was It?)  Actually, the "or was it?" part is just in my head, but it's still a REALLY long title.  Now, if future history serves me correctly, I believe Atlantis was/will be an island nation just west of the mediterranean, and Mu was/will be an island nation just east of present day Hong Kong.  Interesting thing about directions:  if you're travel'n east, you will always be going east, and going west, you're always going west, but if you travel north or south, eventually you'll be going in the opposite direction.  Things that make you go hhhmmmmm...

 

Watercolors For A Buck by Frank Frazetta!

Yeah, yeah, new book that's just new to me, from near the begin'n of the century, and then another coupla takes on the image Fritz may have gone most fundundant on with his watercolor passion.  Even on here, there's bunches more of his vary'n watercolors applied to this unused (!) Buck Rogers cover, so I'm just wonder'n how many total there are, and have they been collected in a tome?  If you know sump'n sump'n, please holla