I bought this as a poster from London’s Forbidden Planet (a pack of six I think) in the early 1980s. Kaluta is one of my favourite, fantastic, graphic artists. He combines grace, power and imagination with such deftness. Kaluta, the much missed Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Barry Windsor Smith and Bernie Wrightson shared a studio together in the late 1970s and …
Gustave Dore Illustration: Empyrean
This astonishing engraving is from Doré’s magnificent illustrated version of Dante’s Paradiso, Canto 31. It’s very hard to create a decent image of this online because there’s so much detail in the engraving. The main version I have is a large format publication by Omega Press, good because it’s large, bad because it’s on wood-free paper so the ink has …
New Start, New Worlds
Starting an exciting new blog packed with unknown worlds, fantastic feats, mysterious creatures and the best writing, art, movies and music I can find. I also need to use this post to issue the Technorati claim token VCRBYJER75WW. This allows These Fantastic Worlds to be registered onto Technorati, a popular Blog Directory.