Spooky

Spooky stuff from Fabian.

 Stephen Fabian — scratchboard

Stephen Fabian — In Dracula's Crypt

Illustrative Magic

Illustrative magic wasn't confined just to the early 1900s:

Stephen Fabian — Cover art for Born to Exile by Phyllis Eisenstein

Colophon

Stephen Fabian designed this intriguing colophon for Gerry de la Ree, his oft-time publisher.

Witchery

While these drawings by Stephen Fabian are not my favorite by him, they certainly fit the bill for our theme of witchery, and certainly not the hags that we expect this time of year.

Fabian — Witch House

Fabian — Psyche the Witch Girl

Fabian — The Witch Before the Altar

Fabian — Gillian the Witch - from Bell, Book and Candle

Fabian — Witch's Spell

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.

Parcel of Tearsheets

Just one more parcel of Stephen Fabian tearsheets in celebration of my finding em amidst so many files.

I know Fabian started out emulating the early pulp artists, but personally I like his work better than most of the work of Finlay and the others.

Flash and Dale or John and Dejah?

From Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance — 1983

I don't know the title, but it sure looks like a Death Rider

The Wallad Blonde

Sight of Proteus

Alien Flesh

Fabian's work was sensual for more than the obvious reasons.

Alien Flesh

The Man Who Came Back

(and boy, that man looks like Werner von Braun)

No record of which Fantasy Newsletter this was from

From Fantasy Newletter #28

The Black Flame

Lost, then Found

Last July, I posted some Stephen Fabian artwork, and realized then that I had lost or misplaced some tearsheets of his work. Well I found some that had been misfiled. Below are a few and I'll post a few more, maybe next post.

I had a bad habit (and to some degree, I still do) of clipping images from books and magazines for the morgue, but not always labeling the source or any kind of caption. So please pardon that I have incomplete info for these terrific Fabian works.

I don't know the name of this story at all.

The Reign of Istar_1992

In a Pig's Eye

Song of the Spaceway

Stars in Shroud

And hey, Mr. Door Tree has some obscure Fabian over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories.

Bellerophon

A lovely little print by Stephen Fabian, entitled Bellerophon.

The original painting is in full color, the print is monotone.

The comment this picture received from oeconomist nicely described its quality, so I quote here with appreciation:

"So much of the time, as here, Fabian's work looks to me perfectly graceful. Whatever struggle may have gone into its production, nothing that remains seems in any way awkward. The horse and the woman convey an impression of proper occupation of space; the horse flies but, given that, its body and that of its rider distribute their mass plausibly in response to the pull of gravity. The buildings are abstracted enough not to draw undue attention, but tell the viewer of a whole city."

The Galante

This is from a postcard I received with New Year's greetings in 1985.

Stephen Fabian — The Galante — 1983

The Sleeping Beast

A nice rendering by Stephen Fabian of The Sleeping Beast by A. Bertram Chandler.

Artful Rendering

From back in the stone age of the 1970s, another artful rendering by Stephen Fabian.

Ursula Andress as "She" by H. Rider Hagard

It has Magic

Stephen Fabian, illustrator of sci-fi and fantasy, seems undervalued and unrecognized by many. While his work could be a bit derivative here and there, it has magic.