milgogl.blogg.se - Frazetta barsoom ink drawings

A special thanks to Thomas Yeates who so very generously sharedhis art, and who made it possible to get permission from the Krenkel estateto use the Roy Krenkel image.Thanks to B arry Klugerman, who controls the RG Krenkel estate,for permission to use the Krenkel image.The pulp magazine covers and interior art come from the collectionof Bob Zeuschner. collection,and the compiler wishes to thank Bill Hillman, Philip Normand,Bruce Bozarth, and Charles Madison for their work on variousscans. Several works of art in this portfolio were not in the ERB, Inc.

Special thanks are due to Billy York and Bonnie York.

Two members of the Los Angeles branch of the Burroughs Bibliophiles,the SubERBs, were especially instrumental in bringing this portfolioto you.

I'm glad to finally have theopportunity to do so.

The late Danton Burroughs shared numerous images of his father'sworks and asked me to make them available.

for so generously making available images of the wonderfuloriginal Burroughs art which is in their care.

The compiler wishes to thank Jim Sullos and Cathy Wilbanksat ERB, Inc.

The compiler of this portfolio and the author of these notes is Dr.Robert Zeuschner.

" The original artwork is monochrome Philip Normand (of ) digitally added color to enhance this portrayal of Barsoom. The caption reads "As the great thoat and his rider hurtled past, Carthoris swung his long-sword in a mighty cut. It served as the frontispiece for Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920). This artwork is a favorite of many ERB fans and collectors. Ruins of an abandoned city lost in the past provide silent witness to the battle. Additional green warriors are off in the background on the left. We cannot quite see her face, but from her stance and her flowing long hair, we know that she is extraordinarily beautiful, as befits a Burroughs heroine and princess. The red-skinned warrior, sword in hand, is ready to fight to protect the princess standing to the side. There is the six-limbed green warrior on his mount, a thoat. Contained in this single image are all the emblems of Barsoom. John image is one of the great iconic portrayals of Barsoom. John provided numerous interior illustrations was the fourth book in the series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920). John has apparently painted over so that the image could be used for a monochrome frontispiece, but was not quite able to get rid of all traces of it. If you examine the print carefully, you can see the remnants of the original lettering which St.

John's own distinctive lettering painted onto the canvas. John painted this image as the color dust jacket cover, with St. Before them all I drew my wife close to me and kissed her upon the lips. "Let a world's most beautiful woman share the honor of her husband," he said. Straight to the Throne of Righteousness they bore her, and there Tardos Mors assisted her from the car, leading her forward to my side. Presently fifty of the mightiest nobles of the greatest courts of Mars marched down the broad Aisle of Hope bearing a splendid car upon their shoulders, and as the people saw who sat within, the cheers that had rung out for me paled into insignificance besides those which thundered through the vast edifice now, for she whom the nobles carried was Dejah Thoris, beloved Princess of Helium. No longer may John Carter be Prince of Helium" - he paused - "but instead let him be Jeddak of Jeddaks, Warlord of Barsoom!" "Judges," he said, "there can be but one verdict. At the very end of the book the leaders and rulers of the separate nations, the red, the green, the yellow, and the black, have come to the capital city of Helium, surprised John Carter by summoning him to a justice tribunal, and Tars Tarkas, the ruler of the Thark nation asserts: John has chosen to illustrate the final page of the book, the triumphant finish to the three volume trilogy which began with A Princess of Mars. The same image in monochrome serves as the frontispiece. John was for the dust jacket of The Warlord of Mars (September 1919). The first illustration set on Barsoom by St. John painted and drew many classic images of John Carter, the incomparable Dejah Thoris, the princess of Mars, and their various adventures.

His first ERB art was his pen-and-ink illustrations for the 1915 The Return of Tarzan, and over the decades St. John (1872-1957) was one of Burroughs' favorite illustrators.