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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 10:07:39 GMT -5
Still waiting on a tie breaker folks....
-M
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Post by MatthewP on Apr 15, 2015 11:16:01 GMT -5
I shall mark my return from vacation by recklessly throwing about great power and casting the tie-breaking vote for... mrp
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 15, 2015 11:16:49 GMT -5
Got to go with some Basil Wolverton for this....  -M mrp for the win !
Weird and gross comes down to two classic creators, for sure, but Wolverton takes it in my book.
Congrats mrp !
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Post by Farrar on Apr 15, 2015 22:05:50 GMT -5
Congrats, mrp--a truly classic cover, very deserving of the win. And in other news, as Hoosier X and foxley pointed out:  That weird green alien creature on the Eerie cover is a swipe, I forgot from where, maybe a pulp cover or a dust jacket illustration for a much older fantasy novel. I can't remember where I saw it (I think it was in a magazine article about swipes) and I'm trying to figure out how to search for it. Maybe the name of the Eerie cover artist will help. I did some looking around online, and one forum said that it was a swipe from a Hannes Bok pulp cover but did not specify which one (and Bok was a pretty prolific artist).   |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 22:11:21 GMT -5
Cool, thanks. Looks like that was supposed to be a fin, which makes more sense on a dragon than on a black cat.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 16, 2015 9:44:28 GMT -5
I didn't have time last night to continue, so I hope y'all will indulge me as I post some additional thoughts about this topic. Avon was the publisher of both the (d'oh!) Avon Fantasy Reader and Eerie. This issue of Avon Fantasy Reader #2 was published circa April 1947 and Eerie #10 about 6 years later, cover date of Dec-Jan 1952-53. The fact that Avon published both puts this in a different light for me. The Eerie cover may be a deliberate evocation of the older image--Avon patting itself on its back--or perhaps an in-house joke, by Hollingsworth or someone in production. Other possibilties...in the link that foxley provided earlier, there's an interesting discussion about how Eerie comics re-used the same art for their covers (pasting in stats, then touching up). It wouldn't surprise me if that's what happened here--the art was around and someone felt the cover pencils needed to be changed and this image was handy. So production may have just been pasted onto the cover art, forgetting to excise/erase the fin even though cats (regardless of size) don't normally have, you know, fins.  IMO both covers are beautiful and eye-catching and they had their desired effect on me--now I want to read all about this green guy's exciting exploits! |
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Post by MDG on Apr 16, 2015 11:32:26 GMT -5
Other possibilties...in the link that foxley provided earlier, there's an interesting discussion about how Eerie comics re-used the same art for their covers (pasting in stats, then touching up). It wouldn't surprise me if that's what happened here--the art was around and someone felt the cover pencils needed to be changed and this image was handy. So production may have just been pasted onto the cover art, forgetting to excise/erase the fin even though cats (regardless of size) don't normally have, you know, fins. Since the original is a painting and the Eerie cover line art, someone had to have copied or traced the figure--it wouldn't have been a simple paste-up. But, boy, that's an odd figure to choose for re-use. It'd be interesting to find out if the cat, girl, pile o' skulls were lifted from other places. Looking at Bok's later work, it looks like Richard Corben picked up some things from him. |
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