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| ParanoidObsessive 08/27/19 2:14:25 AM #131: | Broken_Zeus posted... Hasbro/WotC still owes me some booster packs from a contest hosted on the MtG forums Ironically, MtG also factors into my situation - the comics Acclaim owes me were from their MtG line. Back before WotC gutted their own continuity and retroactively made that entire line an unperson. Broken_Zeus posted... Apparently not famous enough =p Famous enough to have a Wikipedia page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whelan Broken_Zeus posted... I'll have to look into what he's done just out of curiosity. At a glance, the few pieces I saw had the samey-ness of any number of generic fantasy and much of his website seems equally meh. I feel like the most famous thing he's done that I know about is the Wheel of Time covers, but I definitely remember him being a go-to artist for major sci-fi and fantasy covers for a while. If I remember right, I think he also did the covers for the Roger Zelazny collection, which is six hardcover books that collect every short story he ever wrote (which I have). Actually, checking the Wiki, he also did the covers for the Incarnations of Immortality books, so I literally have one of his works in a picture frame in my room. This one: http://78.media.tumblr.com/bf3f9814bce168f2b61da60a23020ed4/tumblr_n2g4ynfieP1rklghko3_500.jpg I printed that out years ago, when playing in a Werewolf game. I was playing a Glass Walker, which means I basically worshipped the Weaver, so I had that picture and a large spider Beanie Baby (everything is connected!) as props for my character. ....checking the Wiki even more, I'd have to say that he had a HUGE impact on my teen years as pertains to the sheer number of books I own he drew the covers for. And not from the Wiki, but I just remembered he drew the covers for the Foundation novels from the 1980s editions. So he's also technically responsible for me even knowing who Isaac Asimov is (and thus the hundreds of books and stories he's written that I've read), because I bought Second Foundation in 6th grade almost solely because of the cover: http://68.media.tumblr.com/54f14129ab6b1ca88a87d200318883c4/tumblr_n3byuhZEY31rklghko2_1280.jpg That, in turn, led me to eventually buy the other Foundation novels. And then the Robot Novels (which he also did covers for). And then the rest of Asimov's work (which is still some of the only pure sci-fi I really enjoy reading). And I loved the motif of the same image/location being repeated over time with different characters that Whelan did for the original Foundation novels: http://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2017/08/foundation-later.jpg If his work looks like generic fantasy to you, it might be because he's drawn so damned many different fantasy covers. His work looks like everything because half of everything is him, and the rest is people copying him (see also the TVTropes for Seinfeld is Unfunny, or the "Why does Tolkien feel so cliched?" argument). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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