Conan the Barbarian

[Mayne]

especially by John Buscema

 

[Thebobo]

Nice drawing

When I played D&D I could get enough of all the Conan books.

 

[Mayne]

this is my conan growing up.

 

[Mayne]

i pronounce it 'cone-an;

 

[Thebobo]

You like the first movie?

 

[brianmanahan]

i pronounce it 'cone-an;

that is the only pronunciation worthy of a warrior

 

[dasherHampton]

Why would Conan shave?

 

[JPS35]

Conan the Barbarian > Conan late night

 

[Paladin3]

I'll take Frank Frazetta's Conan art from the novels I used to read as a kid.

 

[DigDog]

Why would Conan shave?

some ethnicities do not have facial hair.

 

[highland145]

Nice drawing

When I played D&D I could get enough of all the Conan books.

So how many was enough?

 

[Thebobo]

So how many was enough?

Seriously - Well I didn't have a lot of extra money then but our Dungeon master worked in a used books shop so I got as many as I could, all of them were by Sprague de Camp I know there were other authors, maybe 6, still packed away in my attack. But there are a lot more.

 

[Paladin3]

So how many was enough?

I'm a fan of 30's and 40's pulp fiction and never throw a paperback out. I've got almost every paperback Conan story ever written in my collection from years of perusing used book stores and thrift shops. The best stuff is by Robert E. Howard himself, followed by the manuscripts Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter finished after Howard's death. Then a bunch of Conan novels were written by various authors including Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Roland J. Green, John C. Hocking, Robert Jordan, Sean A. Moore, Björn Nyberg, Andrew J. Offutt, Steve Perry, John Maddox Roberts, Harry Turtledove, and Karl Edward Wagner that are mostly entertaining. Seems everyone took a shot at writing Conan at some point in their career.

Garish pulp fiction stories can be fun, but after a bit you need to mix in something a little more cerebral. Same thing when I was a children's librarian and read a lot of kids books. You can't read a bunch of Conan, the entire Little House or Harry Potter series without feeling a little juvenile.

 

[zinfamous]

I'll take Frank Frazetta's Conan art from the novels I used to read as a kid.

....that dude was really into bush, eh?

 

[Paladin3]

....that dude was really into bush, eh?

Gotta remember a lot of his work was done in the 1960's, 70's and 80's.

 

[zinfamous]

Gotta remember a lot of his work was done in the 1960's, 70's and 80's.

yeah but in one of those drawrings, that shit is untamed, even for those decades. Hell, the 80s was the landing strip era in bush milieu.

 

[Mayne]

Never really read any of the books...but I did have pretty much every Savage Sword of Conan magazine growing up...gotta love having an older brother who was a bigger geek than you.

 

[Sonikku]

What is best in life?

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"