Now, here’s a familiar name around these parts when it comes to Visions of Lorelei: Louis Small Jr.—the incredible good-girl artist who not only helped Harris Comics relaunch Vampirella in the 1990s and made her a very hot commodity, but who also provided cover art for the first two issues of my own Lorelei, Volume 1, back in 1993. What you see here is a convention sketch that Louis drew for a Lori fan (not me) back in 1996. He sent me a copy of it soon after, and I think that, after 20+ years in my art files, maybe it’s time all you other Lori fans got to see it. Thanks, Louis!
(Click to embiggen, as they say.)
Unfortunately, Louis doesn’t have a Web site that showcases his art, and he faded from the comics scene years ago, but you can see his StarWarp Concepts contributions on our art gallery page: for Visions of Lorelei he teamed Lori with Vampirella; and for the Pandora Zwieback–themed 13 Days of Pan-demonium he drew “The Pan-tom of the Opera.” And then there’s the one-shot horror-anthology comic Lorelei Presents: House Macabre #1, for which he provided the cover art (and which you can order from the SWC webstore).
There are more Visions of Lorelei to come. Who’s next? I’m not telling—you’ll just have to keep an eye on the blog this year…won’t you? 😉
