More 'Centaurettes'

More 'Centaurette' concept studies for Disney's Fantasia:

Goodness of All Kinds

Gotta keep making a living. I am on major major major deadline again all this week, can't take time for blogging till the weekend. I'm sure you won't miss me.

But until then, here are a few of a number of 'centaurette' studies from Disney's Fantasia concept phase. When I wrap up the deadline I'll post some more. And please do come back, there's much more goodness of all kinds yet to come.

Back Cover Story

I don't normally buy a comic just for its back cover, but I was really struck by the features of this photo. The title of the comic was Supermodels in the Rainforest, an unfortunate title— but certainly descriptive of the story spread out over three issues.

"Eight supermodels fight to save the rainforest from complete annihilation. Join Raine, Moniqua, Virginia, Lolita and the other supermodels in their quest to stop the rampant exhaustion of Earth's resources."

'Course the paper for the print-run used up a few trees, but hey—it was worth it to get this photo.

Golden Age Sensibiliity

Yoshitaka Amano has a golden age sensibility in his design for lithographs that is admired by legions of fans worldwide, and adapted here to a comic book cover. I wish more comics would tap on this sort of work. That might bring a some of us self-exiled geeks back to the fold of buying comics every week.

This cover's logo design was a co-creation of Todd Klein and Dave Stevens.

Une épopée grandiose

Whew, if you didn't have the text to go by, you might think this was a poster for an operatic tragedy.

Georges Rochegrosse—Lithograph—1901

Intriguing

A magical mystical painting by the intriguing Janny Wurts.

Eurasian

A Gil Elvgren print, probably my favorite of his work, probably because it's less of a pin-up, more of a fine study. It looks similar to Andrew Loomis' style of painting.

Gil Elvgren — Eurasian Girl

Hey Look! Steranko Covers!

It was such a treat, back in the late 60s, to come up to a comic spinner in the drug store and find comics with Steranko covers. Of course it WAS still the Silver Age, so there would also be covers by Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Gil Kane, Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Infantino, on and on (SWEET Sixties). But covers by Jim Steranko were more rare than the others and they always compelled me to buy the comic without even looking inside. And sometimes it was a double treat to find Steranko art inside, such as the X-Men comic shown below.

Steranko was a huge fan of the golden age, and he brought much of those qualities, with improvements, to us monkeyboys of the 60s.

A Caucus Race and a Long Tale

Mabel Lucie Attwell — 1910

Charles Robinson — 1907

Charles Robinson — 1907

Maria Kirk — 1907

Disney Studio — 1951

John Tenniel — 1865

Gertrude Kay — 1923

Arthur Rackham — 1907

Mabel Lucie Attwell — 1910

Harry Rountree — 1908

Charles Robinson — 1907

Sonya

I know I'm jumping all over the place, but once again I'm on deadline, short on time, and I'm pulling up stuff that's already scanned and ready to go. Such as this Stephen Fabian rendering of Red Sonya, from Howard's Shadow of the Vulture.

Covers That Never Were

These are some cover idea roughs by Wally Wood from circa 1950 that never made it to print. Boy, if they had, I'll bet Overstreet would have em overpriced.

The Pool of Tears

John Tenniel — 1865

Charles Robinson — 1907

Gwynedd Hudson — 1922

Margaret Tarrant — 1916

Millicent Sowerby — 1907

Milo Winter — 1916

A E Jackson — 1914

Disney Studio — 1951

Alice Woodward — 1913