Dorian hawkmoon7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He not only illustrated the first Elric stories but also co-wrote the fourth one, Kings in Darkness. ![]() James Cawthorn was one of Moorcock’s oldest friends, and a frequent collaborator. (By coincidence, Leone was preparing to the upset the Western genre with A Fistful of Dollars just as Moorcock was finishing the first Elric stories.) Elric is like one of Sergio Leone’s characters: the difference between Clint Eastwood’s “Good” in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Lee Van Cleef’s “Bad” is merely a matter of degree both men are killers chasing the same hoard of gold coins. Over the course of ten stories Moorcock introduced a character and a world that acted as a riposte to the Tolkienite school of heroic fantasy, where the divisions between Good and Evil are clear and fixed. The original Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock isn’t a novel as such but a collection of the second series of linked novellas about Elric of Melniboné that Moorcock wrote for Science Fantasy from 1961 to 1964. This is a limited edition that’s unlikely to be reprinted so anyone interested is advised to pre-order. The Stormbringer Sessons is a resurrection by John Davey of a sketchbook created by James Cawthorn in the mid-1980s for an Elric graphic novel that Cawthorn was commissioned to adapt and illustrate for Savoy Books. One of the books I was designing last year is published next month. ![]()
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