>In a message dated 97-01-27 07:38:35 EST, you write:
>
><< Personal all-time favorit book covers is the covers for the
> reprinting of Edgar Rice Burroughs _Martian Tales_, c. 1980,
> by Michael Whelan (who usually does little for me).
>
> Although, personal _all-time_ favorite illustrators is a tie between
> Audrey Beardsley (_Salome_, _Morte de Arthur_, etc) and Durer's
> _Divine Comedy_ work.
>
> Andrew
> >>
>
>My personal favorites are
>Roger Dean (who used to do the covers of Yes albums)
>Frank Frazetta (who used to do the covers of the Conan paperbacks)
>Thomas Canty (wonderfully subdued and elegant)
>Barry Windsor-Smith and Berni Wrightson (outstanding pen & ink)
>John Berkey and Paul Lehr (impressionistic space artists)
>
>Old illustrator favorites:
>Arthur Rackham
>Maxfield Parrish
>Andrew Wyeth
>Howard Pyle
>
>BH
It's more fantasy than SF, BH, but check out the cover for "The Iron
Dragon's Daughter" by Dorian Vallejo. I go for that kind of thing.
Sean J.
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