#Alan Craddock

[oldschoolfrp]

Dueling a dragon -- Alan Craddock's cover art on White Dwarf 44, August 1983, was previously used on a 1982 Methuen edition of CJ Cherryh's Fires of Azeroth. This issue's credits incorrectly list Jim Burns as cover artist, omitting Craddock's name.

[retroscifiart]

Panel from Wurtham View written by Dave Huxley, drawn by Angus McKie and coloured by Alan Craddock (1982)

[sandmandaddy69]

Alan Craddock

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[metropollysian]

Alan Craddock

[spacenoirdetective]

Alan Craddock, artwork for Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" book series

[vermilllionsands]

Alan Craddock

[arcadefan]

Alan Craddock's original artwork for the 1988 home computer game Soldier of Light, and the pack-in poster.

The game was a port of the original arcade game Xain'd Sleena released by Technos into Japan arcades in September 1986. In 1987, the arcade game was exported to the US as Solar-Warrior and the UK as Soldier of Light.

It was ported to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST.

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[downthetubes]

A look back at the Radio Times Doctor Who strip

Episode 8 of one of the Radio Times Doctor Who strips, "Perceptions", is currently up for sale on eBay

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[dailyjsa]

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #10

THE HUNTRESS, HUNTED! Ruby's search for her father continues, and she'll stop at nothing to find him, even if it means killing the Huntress and destroying the Justice Society of America!

Writer: Geoff Johns

Artists: Mikel Janin and Marco Santucci

Colors: Jordie Bellaire, Ivan Plascencia, and John Kalisz

Letters: Rob Leigh

Cover A: Mikel Janin

Available at your local comic shop and online today!

Variant covers:

Cover B: Tony Harris (card stock)

Cover C: Paris Alleyne (1:25 card stock)

The preview for this issue is below the cut:

[oldschoolfrp]

Orc air cav (Alan Craddock, Warlock 4, 1985)

[panelswithoutpeople]

V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

[sandmandaddy69]

Alan Craddock

[70sscifiart]

Alan Craddock, 1984

[petermorwood]

Art from 1984 by Alan Craddock showing Elric of Melniboné as a broad-shouldered, deep-chested Typical Conan-Clone Fantasy Hero, which is as wrong about the character as it's possible to be.

Elric is an anti-Conan, a frail weakling reliant on magic, medicine - and his sword-shaped demon companion Stormbringer - to function with anything like normality.

So that cover art may be a result of very sketchy art direction:

"We need a sword-and-sorcery cover. Put the hero on it, he's an albino with red eyes, white hair and a black sword, and stick some generic fantasy stuff in the background"

Unless "albino with a black sword" immediately rings a bell - and not all commercial artists are fans of the material they illustrate - "sword and sorcery hero" almost always means "looks like a bodybuilder", and that's probably what happened here.

Here are a few more interpretations of Elric on book covers.

*****

And if anyone watching "House of the Dragon" has ever thought Matt Smith's character Prince Daemon reminded them of someone, they'd be right. :->