Year: 1984
Publisher: Norma
ISBN: 8485475607
Content: 178 pages with mostly colour illustrations
Manuel Sanjulian (Manuel Perez Clemente) is the doyen of European fantasy and horror cover art, and much like Frank Frazetta, considered a legend amongst cover enthusiasts, sometimes even without them knowing his name... The reason for this is the sheer amount of art produced by Sanjulian for cheap magazine-like novel publications so typical for German and French publishers over the last decades, as well as comic book covers in the 70´s, most notably Vampirella. His images might look quick and easily rendered, but the vivid colors and countless beasts (and barenaked ladies) catapulted him into the sky of cover artists.
This quite rare and huge artbook from the Spanish editor Norma consist of numerous illustrations from 1970-84 for a huge variety of publishers and subjects. Mostly fantasy material of course, but a lot for western, thriller and other genre novels. In the 70´s, Sanjulian was hired by Warren Publishing, so go, figure it... ;)
There was an unchanged French edition of this book by Glénat in 1985, followed by only a sketchbook from SQP in the 90´s and than the Conan-inspired artbook by Underwood books (called "Sword´s Edge") in 2010, so if you can get a copy of this book somewhere, go for it, it will be one of the jewels of your collection! Sanjulian´s official website can be found here, and you should also check out a blog over here with examples of his work.
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