THE FANTASTIC ART OF ROY G KRENKEL

With nearly five hundred pieces of art, including sixteen foldouts, this is the definitive collection for fans of and newcomers to the virtuoso fantasy artist -- curated by Craig Yoe, with a foreword by Sara Frazetta and a preface by Michael Wm. Kaluta. If master draftspersons of the Renaissance were reincarnated to create sword-and-sorcery art of more contemporary times, they would have had Roy Krenkel as their mentor. RGK defined the term "an artist’s artist," and comics artists ardently study his incredible work. Roy filled the pages of the pro-zine/fanzine Amra with his favorite art -- collected here are the complete Amra illustrations. Amra was devoted to Robert E. Howard & other sword & sorcery authors and subjects, edited by George Scithers, who also published Roy’s first art book, Cities and Scenes of the Ancient World. Whie there are many single subject drawings here, character and action studies, there are also quite a number of complex, highly detailed full page pieces. And as noted above, double page scenes also. I'm very impressed. And the introduction talks about Roy's friends who also contributed to Amra, and sample art is included by each one: Frank Frazetta, Gray Morrow, Jeffrey Jones, Berni Wrightson, Bill Stout, Dan Adkins and Alex Niño!!! Fantastic dinosaurs, ape men, barbarians, cavemen and women, citizens of ancient civilizations, and saber-toothed tigers populate the luxurious pages of this stunning tome as only Roy Krenkel could deftly embellish them.