Posted in Conan Related, General, Robert E. Howard Related on Aug 12th, 2009
I just ordered my copy of Conan’s Brethren from Amazon, the companion volume to the previously released volume The Complete Chronicles of Conan, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
This new volume of course includes stories from some of Robert E. Howard’s lesser known (at least in comparison to Conan) characters, such as Solomon Kane, Kull, Bran Mak [...]
Posted in Conan Related, General, Images of the Hyborian Age on Jun 10th, 2009
I found out today that Dave Simons, Conan art gallery contributor, artist extraordinaire, and all around nice guy, passed away last night due to complications from pnemonia… of course a relatively recent resurgence of his fight against cancer didn’t help matters either. He was 54.
I never met Dave personally, but can attest to other [...]
Posted in Conan Related on Jan 28th, 2009
This has made the rounds a time or two in the Conan circuit. None the less, I think the Onion did a pretty good job on this article. Obviously they’re referencing an article that came out a few weeks ago where President Obama professed to collecting Conan and Spider man comics.
If you’re a Conan fan, [...]
Posted in Conan Related, General, Images of the Hyborian Age on Jan 23rd, 2009
I approached Conan art gallery contributor Benito Gallego a few weeks ago about potentially doing a header for Border Kingdom, and he was happy to oblige the request. I had had the former “work in progress” banner up there far too long, and the old size of the blog just wasn’t accommodating to some [...]
Posted in Conan Related, Tuesday Art Treats on Sep 2nd, 2008
Having hit up a number of comic book groups over the last few months for contributions to the Hyborian Age Art Gallery, I thought I’d take a different approach and start “googling” a few art/Conan/Hyborian related terms to see if I could find some other possible candidates for art contributions that I might miss if [...]