For a long time I’ve been trying to figure it out: I swear this cover art is from some old BDSM artbook or something and reused – it just looks so damn familiar. Does anyone know?
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005ATGJ.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
I wonder if it has quite a history.
Thanks a lot!
Let’s give the Cafe Society folks a chance, since this one has produced nothing in GQ.
samclem
Thanks a lot, samclem! Curious I continue to be.
Crusoe
November 5, 2006, 8:45pm
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It was specially commissioned from fantasy artist Boris Vallejo
Now here’s where Di Salvio plays the fantasy card for real. Discosis sports a tastefully lurid (does that work?!) pencil drawing by the legendary Boris Vallejo, master of proto-D&D warrior babes ‘n’ studs whose muscles gleam as brightly as the swords and battleaxes they wield. Suffice it to say that Di Salvio isn’t the only “van” artist inspired by the man.
“Boris Vallejo, with Frank Frazetta, is one of the pioneers of fantasy art. I spoke with him, and he’s going to be feeding us. I’m so psyched, man! Boris, dude! He’s going to feed us, similar to how Roger Dean fed Yes. Glee’s cover was in fact budget Boris–I did it down at Superock. I was trying to aim for Boris, except I couldn’t call him, just like I couldn’t call Curtis. It’s amazing what the Beasties can do, that they can help out that way. They’re like a little mafia, a B-boy mafia.”
Crusoe
November 5, 2006, 8:48pm
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Oh, my apologies - it wasn’t specially commissioned at all, but taken from a book he’d drawn the cover for - so you’re right about the BDSM roots:
http://branvan3000.essede.org/pictures/jai_lu_le_lien.jpg
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Thanks a LOT, Crusoe! I know at last - I couldn’t previously find that answer! My search is over.
Again, thanks so much.
