Posted in Conan Related on Feb 17th, 2010
Benito Gallego launched a new website today, with a whole bunch of new art that I’ve never seen before. He put together a nice gallery of illustrations, commissions, and some of his other comic work that he’s done over the years, including some excellent Conan and/or Hyborian Age pieces (some of which he did for [...]
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 [...]