{"id":1370,"date":"2011-09-05T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:08:39","slug":"frederik-pohl-remembers-the-illustrator-hannes-bok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/05\/frederik-pohl-remembers-the-illustrator-hannes-bok\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederik Pohl Remembers the illustrator Hannes Bok"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Hannes<\/a>\n
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In the middle of his reminiscences of the pulp magazines of the ’30s and ’40s, Frederik Pohl has started to tell us about his memories of the illustrator Hannes Bok<\/a> – and I have to admit that although I like his work, till now I knew practically nothing about him.<\/p>\n

Bok was a contemporary of the inhumanly skilful Virgil Finlay; but while their rendering styles had something in common there was no commonality at all in their very different visual imaginations. Bok is strange and stylized and curious; Finlay is elegant and, I suppose, more accessible.<\/p>\n

This comes at an appropriate time for me: I’ve just finished a greyscale illustration for a tale in Starship Sofa Stories<\/em> #3. Working to greyscale was challenging, much as shooting a film in black and white is challenging – I had to make even more persnickety adjustments to my lights and materials than I usually do. But I found that I loved the result.<\/p>\n

I keep looking at that picture and wondering whether I’ve found the solution (or part of one) for a project that’s been going in and out of the Idea Closet for years now. Grey is…. tasty. I’d forgotten.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here’s to the mysterious Hannes Bok<\/a>. I think now that every time I recall my days of hitch-hiking to the art shows at science fiction conventions, I’ll think about him, too – some things never change!<\/p>\n

Now continued in Part Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n[tags]hannes bok, frederik pohl, pulp art, illustration, golden age[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the middle of his reminiscences of the pulp magazines of the ’30s and ’40s, Frederik Pohl has started to tell us about his memories of the illustrator Hannes Bok – and I have to admit that although I like his work, till now I knew practically nothing about him. Bok was a contemporary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}