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Aortas in a Chair – Aortas They Don’t Care

John Jude Palencar

For artists, concepts present themselves in unexpected ways. Why or how the artist responds to them is sometimes just as much of a mystery to the artist as it is to the artist’s audience. Freudian reasons aside, there are many avenues for inspiration & pathways to creative new lands. My wife had this small decorative chair she no longer wanted. It’s one of those objects that you say to yourself, “why would someone make this?”.…

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Conan At Auction

Arnie Fenner

September 8, 2025 - "Murilo saw that the barbarian had locked his legs about the ape-man's torso and was striving to maintain his position on the monster's back while he butchered it with his poniard. Thak, on the other hand, was striving to dislodge his clinging foe, to drag him around within reach of the giant fangs that gaped for his flesh." —from "Rogues in the House" by Robert E. Howard This Friday, September 12, 2025, Frank Frazetta's iconic cover for the collection Conan, published by Lancer Books in 1967, will go on the block at Heritage Auctions. Frank was paid something around $400 to do the art, one of 9 classic Conan oil paintings he produced for Lancer's 12-book Conan series; 8 were published in the United States, but Lancer went bankrupt and out of business before the…

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