Posted in General, Images of the Hyborian Age on Aug 21st, 2008
I have a whole slew of art ready to put into the Images of the Hyborian Age gallery, and a lot of new artists currently putting pencil to paper for new commissions as well. I don’t want to name names, but you can expect to see a series of commissions coming up by an [...]
Posted in Conan Related, Images of the Hyborian Age, Miscellaneous on Aug 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Images of the Hyborian Age on Apr 30th, 2008
Staz Johnson’s version of Conan holds a particular fondness to me. To start with, it’s the first piece of artwork I’ve ever solicited, and really it’s the piece that lit the fire under me to get Border Kingdom and the Images of Hyboria Gallery going.
Staz is one of a few artists that I [...]
Posted in Images of the Hyborian Age on Apr 24th, 2008
There are a couple of commissions that I’ve received so far that really take me back to the old Savage Sword of Conan days. The first one that really took me back, probably because it’s likeness to Buscema, was Benito Gallego’s Streets of Shadizar , the second one though, is Winston Blakely’s [...]
Posted in Images of the Hyborian Age on Apr 23rd, 2008
Dave Simons is awesome. If I were a better man - at least with words - I would write him a song, or perhaps a poem, to express my feelings of gratitude for his exquisite portrayal of one of the roughest taverns this side of the Vilayt, the Maul. But while I’m told that I’m [...]