I had mentioned my friend Tom in my post a couple of day's back. I wanted to just take an opportunity to direct people to his web site, and point out a few of my favorite pieces he's got up there.
I really like this painting he did of Jackson Pollock. (Yup, this is the erudite artistic criticism that you visit this site for!)
He's done a bunch of illustrations for books written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, I rather like this cool Prehisotric warrior chick. I believe she's from a book called The Eternal Lover, about a woman who finds a skeleton and then relives her past lives - or something crazy like that. Tom has this drawing printed out or photocopied and taped to the side of his computer, so I see it all the time.
I think my favorite piece he's got up there, is this unpublished piece he did for one of the Pellucidar novels (which take place beneath the Earth's crust). I just dig the composition, the big dust swirl, and the little details.
He has a few Tarzan pieces up there (1,2, 3), but his best Tarzan stuff isn't on his site yet. He's doing a lot of illustrations for a new printing of the first Tarzan novel. As I understand it, the book will come out mid-next year, and the publisher will take pre-orders before he prints, and then he'll just print as many books as he has sold. Tom says he guesses the book will cost around $50 (just based on what it costs to print illustrations), so start saving your pennies now! I'll post here whenever they start gearing up for that. Tom's finishing up the illustrations this month, so he can get them scanned and then sell the originals at a Burroughs convention in Kentucky.
Here's 4 Burroughs books from Amazon that I recognize as at least having covers done by Tom:
The Moon Maid
Pellucidar
Pirates of Venus
Gullivar of Mars
Paul Corrigan has done some beautiful retro sci-fi work on the Daring Planet website. We still have to wait for the first episode of the cartoon he's working on, but Fan Club members (free membership) can print out and asemble their own Authentic Cosmic Raygun today. It took me about an hour to assemble the raygun pictured, but I couldn't find scissors and had to cut everything out with an X-Acto knife- so your speed may vary.