{"id":1601,"date":"2012-05-26T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2012-05-26T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:48:39","slug":"worlds-of-if-covers-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories-also-a-small-hannes-bok-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/26\/worlds-of-if-covers-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories-also-a-small-hannes-bok-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Worlds of IF’ Covers at Golden Age Comic Book Stories; also, a small Hannes Bok Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over at the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog we see a collection of "Worlds of IF" covers from the 1950’s and the 1960′<\/a>s, by a smorgasbord of illustrators including a few by Virgil Finlay, and what seems to be a posthumously published cover by Hannes Bok.<\/p>\n

In fact I wasn’t positive that the publication date was, you know, after Bok’s expiration<\/em> date, and when I went looking to verify that I ran across this small archive<\/a> of his work. It includes the one I’ve reproduced below.<\/p>\n

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Frederik Pohl posted some of his reminiscences about Bok last year. You can read those here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 50’s and 60’s are actually a little too modern for me, for the most part, but I’m always ready for a little Finlay or a bit of Bok. I’m often bemused by the fact that the long, odd trip I’ve taken with my own work has led me back – by a route that’s anything but direct, and which couldn’t be called intentional – to illustrators like these, whose work I enjoyed so very much when I was young. It’s all a bit like a joke that I wasn’t in on, or the end result of a convoluted plan by some cackling archvillain.<\/p>\n

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\n[tags]worlds of if, golden age comic book stories, virgil finlay, hannes bok, other worlds, science fiction, illustration, 1950s, 1960s[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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