Popular cartoonistJohn Allisonis a big fan of the character Conan the Barbarian, and was doing a Conan comic for fun in his free time, which you could read for free on his website. I say “could” and not “can,” because Allison understandably took it downafter receiving a cease and ...
The general consensus is that Howard hit the mark with his fourth Conan story, “The Tower of the Elephant,” published in March of 1933. His first was “The Phoenix on the Sword,” which appeared inWeird Talesin December of 1932 and was a rewrite of an unpublished Kull story, “By T...
In 1954 Frazetta was hired byAl Capp as a full-time “ghost” artist onLi’l Abner. He understood the rigors of the job, having illustrated thecomic stripJohnny Comet(1952–53) and having tried, unsuccessfully, to sell several comic strips of his own creation. Frazetta’s stint onLi’l ...