Ungoliantschilde

CONAN THE KING no.21 • cover art • Michael Kaluta [1984]

Barry Windsor Smith Jane Morris Original Art (The Gorblimey Press, 1975) Source

“This drawing was published in Shelf Stuff and The Studio.”

My friend ungoliantschilde has the full set of prints.

Abyss # 1, Inside Cover and Pages 17-24, including the original pencils for page 18, as illustrated by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

Batman, Vol. 1 # 320 by Bernie Wrightson, with Colors by Tatjana Wood.

Cover signed ‘72 but not used until 1980. Found in the archives, as told in letters for 325:

Michael Kaluta The Shadow and Margo Lane (undated) Source

“the Monsters: Color-the-Creature Book”, by Berni Wrightson.

Stephen King’s “the Stand” was reprinted as ‘the complete and uncut’ edition, with illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Those illustrations were later published as “the Stand Portfolio”.

The images I posted are photographs taken by an owner of the book, as opposed to scans of the art prints from the portfolio.

Posted, as promised.

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf Portfolio, by Bernie Wrightson.

The Beguiling by Barry Windsor-Smith (1982)

Originally published in Epic Illustrated No.16, February 1983

Retouched and republished, from digital scans, in BWS: OPUS Volume 2, October 2000

Barry’s comments: “All told, this story took an average of 5 weeks per page; not a money making project, I can assure you. I wrote the script as a freeform poem, taking the cadence from a Swinburne work. Or was it Strindberg? I’ve forgotten now. I recently found my original plot scribbled out on a sheet of pencil designs for the cover picture. That version was less personal, but I changed the course of the story after going through a crisis with my lady of that period. In that regard, the story is reflective of its time, and also prophetic.

"The scene of the snakes and fish wriggling out of the stone wall is very strange. I almost cut it out, thinking that it was just too weird, but my editor, Archie Goodwin, convinced me to keep it in. ‘It’s weird,’ he said, ‘but it’s a really good weird.’

"By following his ideal woman, the young knight is submitting to a leap of faith, symbolized by walking through the solid wall as if it were immaterial. His turning to stone implies that the woman is really the Medusa. My Medusa, that is, where behind the facade of her beauty lurks something unknown and unknowable. This is the only time I’ve used the turning to stone thing, yet the woman looks nothing at all like my other Medusa images. We see her the way the knight does, as an angel. Although the man becomes nothing more than a trophy, he continues to have faith in what he believes to be his true love. You know, ‘blissfully unaware.’ It’s not that apparent, and I really should have reworked the scene a bit, but in the last three panels his once- outstretched left arm is broken off, and the ivy has become overgrown, swallowing him up over the long passage of time. Yet still his entire focus is on his imaginal life, and the angelic soul-mate of his dreams. It’s a bitter ending for one so idealistic.”

“The Beguiled”, a painting that Barry picked at, off and on, for about 20 years:

Here’s a pic of my copy of Epic Illustrated # 16, which Barry signed for me:

And, Barry signed the first page of the story for me too:

the Dante’s Inferno Portfolio, by Michael William Kaluta

Furies and Tombs of the Heretics

Dis, Styx, and Dame Fortune

the Gate of Hell

Nessus on the Shore of Phlegethon

Charon

Roosting Demons

Geryon

Paolo and Francesca

Moon Knight, Vol. 1 # 38 by Michael William Kaluta.