I’ve been away awhile, but I’ve had a good reason.  A few weeks ago my wife gave birth to our first child, a little boy.  We named him Thoth-Amon.  Ok ok… so not really.  While I did try to convince the wife that the middle name Robert would suite him, she saw through the ploy relatively quickly and ‘wouldn’t have none of that’, or something to that effect.  In the end, the poor little fellow had the misfortune of being named after his father.

But the other night after a bath, as he was crying after being taken out of his warm water, I was reminded of a fantastic cover illustration done by Greg Ruth for Dark Horse’s Conan comic.  I had the wife indulge me a bit and help me recreate the piece with a modern approach (curtains in the background).

Mr. Ruth, in my opinion, did fantastic work on the covers and interiors of that Dark Horse spin off.  Others enjoyed his work as well, as can be seen in this conan.com thread where, among those that contributed so far, each has listed one of Mr. Ruth’s covers as a particular favorite, among all the covers.

More art coming
In the weeks that I haven’t posted, I’ve received a lot of art, that I’m just itching to share with you. Contributions from Luis Sierra, Jed Raven (who puts a spin on Conan and Red SonJa that we haven’t seen before, but that’s really really good), and Edbon Sevilleno as newcomers as well as additional submissions from some that have already contributed, including Atula Siriwardane illustrating Conan during his pirating years, Benito Gallego illustrating The Frost Giants Daughter, and Dave Simons giving us a particularly nice piece that illustrates Thoth Amon. Look for the first of those pieces to show up starting next week. For now though, I’ll leave you with a little teaser that Edbon sent me as concept art for his commission. It was never named, but it reminded me when I saw it of a Hyrkanian/Khitian general.. a real treat: