Fantasy of the 20th century

série: Etude Comics
dessinateur / scénariste: Broecker Randy
éditeur: Collectors EO 2001
genre: Etude
classement: biblio615
date: 2001
format: hardbook with dust jacket
état: TBE/N
valeur: 20 €
critère: **
remarques: English book

author: Randy Broecker,
Collectors Press first edition 2001

Broecker, a fantasy artist, takes a look back
on illustrations of fantasy literature
ranging from the fairy tales of Arthur Rackham
to the stories of Stephen King

many of the illustrations should bring back
memories for longtime fans and will
introduce a new generation to the artwork
that preceded today's graphic work,
first edition in like-new condition

introduction: better living through fantasy


1/ 1001 delights, the earliest roots
of fantasy litterature:
the Odysseus, the Illiad, the Aeneid,
Gilgamesh. the Ring of the Niebelungen,
Rheingold, Siegfried, the wizard of Oz,
Lilith, la divina Comedia


2/ lost worlds, lost races:
Famous Fantastic Mysteries,
Argosy magazine, Amazing stories,
Haggard (She), Merritt,
Conan Doyle (the lost world)
E.R. Burroughs (Tarzan),
lords of the underworld


3/ the pulp alchemists:
weird tales with illustrator
J. Allen St. John, Lovecraft,
Howard (Conan, King Kull
and Solomon Kane)


4/ complete enchanters:
unknown tales and unknown worlds,
Fantasy Fiction, Fantastic Novels,
Hubbard, Bradbury, illustrator Frazetta


5/ a good story is worth reprinting:
Famous Fantastic Mysteries,
the citadel of fear


6/ with this ring:
Tolkien (the hobbit, lord of the rings)
Avalon stories, Dragon stories,
the mists of Avalon, King Arthur,
mad Merlin, Excalibur


7/ have sword wild travel:
sword and sorcery, dungeons and dragons,
Heroic Fantasy, Creepy, Morcock,
Leiber, Sprague de Camp,
Conan the adventurer, King Kull,
Thongor, Ishtar,
illustrators: Frazetta and Jeff Jones


8/ the cinema of the fantastic:
Spielberg, King Kong,
the thief of Bagdad, Vampire,
la belle et la bête, dragonslayer,
the Argonauts, Red Sonja


9/ dear Mr. Fantasy:
Zotheque, wizards and warriors,
Tanith Lee, the red Unicorn,
the blue star


10/ Faerie'Cross the Mersey:
Fairy Tales, Vortex, blue moon,
Zelazny (Chronicles of Amber)
Phantom, Peter Pan.


11/ the road goes ever on:
the Elfin ship, land of dreams,
dragons and darkness, the black swan,
Stephen King, Robin Hobb,


12/ beyond the field I know:
fantastic adventures, the priestess,
princess of the sea,
Fantastic Cover Girls

13/ Index


>> a quite interesting book, espc. in view
of the richly presented illustrations

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