Good news, everyone! In honor of Bob Larkin’s birthday this past Sunday, publisher SQ Art Books—home to the pinup-oriented collections of such artists as Steve Fastner & Rich Larson, Adrian Velez, and Drew Posada—is offering the full-color The Savage Art of Bob Larkin at half off cover price!
Savage Art is an artistic survey of Larkin’s career, offering high-quality reproductions of his cover paintings for science fiction, fantasy, Western, romance, and comic book publishers, and feature his highly regarded renditions of such famous characters as Doc Savage—the Man of Bronze; Marvel Comics’ Dazzler, Incredible Hulk, Punisher, and X-Men; Conan the Barbarian; Warren Publishing’s Pantha and The Rook; and a certain redheaded succubus named Lorelei, who should be all too familiar to SWC fans.
Order a copy today!
(A word of warning, though: SQ is an adult-oriented art book site, so be aware that if you wander off the Larkin page, there will be a trainload of Not Safe For Work images you’ll have to hide from your boss when they wander past your desk.)
If you’re a fan of comic books, or movies, or pulp fiction heroes, Bob Larkin is a painter whose work you recognize immediately; he’s provided covers and movie posters for just about every publishing house and film studio for more than four decades. Doc Savage, Dazzler, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian, Piranha, Night of the Creeps, and The Toxic Avenger II are just some of the painted images you’re already familiar with, even if you didn’t know they were Larkin’s work. He’s been an inspiration to artists like Joe Jusko and Alex Ross. If you’re a Panatic, then you know him as the cover artist of the Saga of Pandora Zwieback novels Blood Feud and Blood Reign.
Speaking of art books, it’s not just his painting skills that are impressive—Bob’s also one hell of a pencil artist, as you’ll see if you order a copy of SWC’s The Bob Larkin Sketchbook. It’s a collection of some of Bob’s incredible pencil drawings, and what you’ll discover when you see them is how wide-ranging his subjects are. Sci-fi, horror, Westerns, pulp adventure, crime fiction, movie merchandise, even wrestling stars—as we say on the book’s back cover, there really is little that he hasn’t painted. And the sketchbook features three pieces created especially for it: the Pandora Zwieback cover art; a portrait of Patricia Savage, the fightin’ cousin of pulp fiction’s top-tier adventurer, Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze; and a two-page spread in which Doc faces off against another Golden Age crimefighter—The Shadow!
The Bob Larkin Sketchbook is available in print and digital formats. Visit its product page for ordering information, as well as sample pages.
And to see more of Bob’s stunning work, pay a visit to his art blog, Bob Larkin: The Illustrated Man.
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