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Post by abelpaynter on May 21, 2011 7:44:20 GMT
Greets to all - I stumbled on the site by chance and was interested to see that many references were made to my artwork by various parties so I thought I'd take a moment to appear. For those of you who are into the Westerns (I noted several references to Edge and Steele) you might like to know that I have a couple of new Feature Pages on my website you might like to see. There's also some Horror and various other illustrations but my intention is to favour the Feature Pages with different pics from time to time when I can get around to it - maybe later I'll put up some Black Slaver, comics strips, Fantasy and so on ... So pay a visit: [a href=" www.artnillustration.com"] www.artnillustration.com[/a] p.s. If you're out there J Mains, how're you doing? |
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Post by killercrab on May 22, 2011 0:04:35 GMT
Your link isn't working or I'd have a look.
KC
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Post by abelpaynter on May 22, 2011 5:00:52 GMT
Sorry about that, I'm not too well versed on creating these posts - I'll try again, failing that I guess you could always type in the address ......... www.artnillustration.com |
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Post by noose on May 22, 2011 7:34:09 GMT
I'm here Tony! Still hanging on and stuff....  I'll send you an email when I get back off me hols. Jx |
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Post by Dr Strange on May 22, 2011 10:46:49 GMT
Problem with first link is that the instructions for the blue font colour are included in the underlying hypertext/hyperlink or whatever it's called.
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Post by andydecker on May 22, 2011 12:18:33 GMT
Second link worked. I don´t want to sound like a fanboy, but let me say how much I enjoyed your great work, Mr. Masero, and still do. I have complete sets of Edge and Steele, and it is always fun just to look at them. So let me say thank you. |
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Post by abelpaynter on May 22, 2011 13:37:51 GMT
Thanks so much for your kind words, Andy, thats always nice to hear and I hope you enjoy the pics on the site. And yes, I sussed the link setup finally - apologies to all for the error.
As an obvious committed fan of the books I don't if you know of the George G Gilman appreciation site at GGG and the Piccadilly Cowboys, if not it may be of interest to you.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 23, 2011 9:58:45 GMT
Hi and welcome Mr. Masero. it's always strange and slightly unbelievable when an icon becomes a person. The Edge covers were always a winner with me.
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Post by abelpaynter on May 23, 2011 11:13:37 GMT
Well, less of an icon and more of a person I hope - but thanks for the welcome Craig.
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Post by dem bones on May 23, 2011 23:38:32 GMT
thanks for joining, Mr. Masero, and i hope you enjoy your time here. it's the NEL and MEWS horror stuff that most appeals to me, in particular your work for the Don Glut New Adventures Of Frankenstein series, Peter Haining's The Craft Of Terror and the Unknown Horror trio - i really like the bright to the point of dayglo coloring which always struck me as very unusual for horror artwork. incidentally, until i looked over your site i had no idea that James Herbert cover was one of yours!
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Post by lemming13 on May 24, 2011 9:14:24 GMT
Wonderful, another horror icon on board! Now what we want is for all our writers to get together with Mr Masero and do an anthology with one of his glorious covers, just for the Vault. I'm sure among us we can come up with a theme or two...
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Post by andydecker on May 24, 2011 9:37:29 GMT
I never knew that this was Mr. Masero´s work as it wasn´t credited as usual. But as I found this on his website I knew this was used for a heftroman and found it in my collection. This was used for Dan Shocker´s Silber Grusel-Krimi 188 in 1978 and had the great title "Waxmen from the Psycho-Labyrinth" Don´t ask me what a psycho-labyrinth is; I read this over 30 years ago and haven´t a clue what this was about. But it sure was a great cover |
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Post by abelpaynter on May 24, 2011 11:27:21 GMT
Well, once again folks thanks for all your kind welcomes.
It might interest you to know, Demonik - that I was at school in London with our very own Jimmy Herbert and then at Hornsey Art School with him. He was a year ahead of me but we knew each other. Now, of course, he's James and has an OBE, but times change us all. We nearly met up again at the World Horror Convention last year in Brighton where I was showing, unfortunately we just missed each other due to other commitments. But he came over and we did work together on that cover for 'The Dark' when it first came out years ago.
And that German use of the artwork is interesting, Andy. Another stitch-up for illustrators. I never knew they used it and should have received international second rights for the artwork but never did. Oh, the wickedness of publishers, the truth will out in the end.
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Post by andydecker on May 24, 2011 18:04:42 GMT
Another stitch-up for illustrators. I never knew they used it and should have received international second rights for the artwork but never did. Oh, the wickedness of publishers, the truth will out in the end. As far as I know there were art-agencies at the time which bought covers wholesale which is the reason why so many novels got new covers or why publishers asked their in-house writers to incorporate a cover as a scene in their novels. I know for a fact that some of your early Edge covers where used for the German Edge novels. They only translated a handful of Edge and put them in a generic western line; of course they were heavily edited as they were too violent for our markets rules. The publisher even re-wrote the last third of The Loner if I remember correctly. Edge alias Joe Hedges became John Flint as the Hedges/Edge joke doesn´t work in German. Jedediah Herne, Herne the Hunter, became Travis Hunter in his also radically edited novels. Unfortunately I lost most of the German Edge editions. I wanted to do a scan when I wrote the reviews for the PC board but couldn´t find them. I think I recognized another of your paintings from your site, Mr. Masero, but still have to check it. |
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Post by abelpaynter on May 24, 2011 19:54:38 GMT
Fascinating information, Andy. I certainly had no idea about any of that. Its rather strange as well as the NEL second rights department was usually pretty good about advising artists of foreign sales. At least they were later on. I did a lot of work for them over the years and maybe this stuff was from early days when things were a lot looser.
Nowadays of course the Association of Illustrators advises a pretty comprehensive contract before you even sharpen a pencil, which is rather inhibiting for both artist and client.
Certainly be interested to see anything else you turn up. Thanks for taking the time to uncover what you have.
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