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Sword & Sorcery Artists: Samuel Dillon – castaliahouse.com

Sword & Sorcery Artists: Samuel Dillon

Sunday , 10, October 2021 4 Comments

For four years, I have been blogging on sword & sorcery artists. Some are forgotten, obscure, a few are classic. Art has been important to sword & sorcery fiction going back to Hugh Rankin in Weird Tales.

A recent artist and one of my favorites is Samuel Dillon.

I think I first became aware of Sam Dillon in the first issue of Skelos with “Grettir and the Drauger.” The illustrations made me sit up and take notice.

Tales From the Magician’s Skull includes a full-page illustration with each story. Sam Dillon has been present for those writers lucky enough for him to illustrate their story.

The Heroic Reader featured covers by Samuel Dillon.

Looking at his art, you think of Virgil Finlay and Stephen Fabian. Sam discovered those later on. Frank Frazetta of course and also Esteban Maroto. Maroto’s illustrated Conan paperbacks were first and then in the Warren magazines. Remind to do a blog post on Maroto’s “Dax the Damned” series.

Included are also illustrations of Robert E. Howard’s boxing stories.

4 Comments
  • John E Boyle says:

    Dang, but he’s good!

  • Beautiful art, and my first time to see Dillon’s work. I hope you continue your Swords and Sorcery Artists column, I’d love to read a restrospective on Gonzalo Mayo (did El Cid for Warren, not sure if it appeared in Creepy or Eerie), more on Maroto who’s my favorite S&S artist for black and white art, and on Quique Alcatena. Thanks!

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