#Robert Windsor

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Conan The Barbarian by Barry Windsor-Smith

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found this under a Cinderella 2021 video lmfao

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My original cover painting for the San Diego Comic Con exclusive CONAN from Titan Comics.

I'm very sorry I won't be there for the signing. Not long ago I was joking about my schedule and how I kinda wished I could cancel going to the show so I could stay home and catch up on work.

Be careful what you wish for.

Anyway, this is pen and ink with watercolor.

I use the amazing Dr. Martin's Black Star Ink and crowquill pens. This is my very favorite black ink. It is rich and deep and does not budge when you paint over it. It also gives you large areas of pure, glorious black with a minimum of streaking.

I realize a lot of people don't like inking with crowquill pens, but I find a little practice will bring outstanding results and more character in the line than you can get out of technical pens.

Pens last longer if you clean them with a sonic cleaner. I am lucky enough to have a thirty-year-old unit that is still going strong, but any modern sonic jewelry cleaner will do the same job. Add a touch of pen cleaning fluid and the gunk on your points will be gone in a few minutes.

I only use antique points that I have hoarded for many years. Some of my crowquill points are a century old. The metal and manufacture is superior to what you are likely to find today.

My paints are Daniel Smith Watercolors. I can't say enough good things about them. Superior pigment load, fantastic color and style range, glorious iridescent and semi-precious stone pigment line, archival, lightfast, superior in every way in my experience.

Not going to lead you on about these, they are expensive, but worth every penny. They last a long time and I am especially happy with my watercolor pan set which is easy for painting while I travel.

I also used them to paint the entire 64 page CHIVALRY graphic novel, and didn't even come close to running out of a single small tube of paint. A little goes a long way.

And here is the CONAN cover with trade dress.

I did this about 6 months ago and had to keep it a secret all this time. I'm a fan of Robert E. Howard, and wanted to do something in the style of Barry Windsor-Smith, and thoroughly enjoyed working on this piece.

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thank you to the person who screenshot-ed this tweet when it was still there♥

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Turlogh Dubh O'Brien - art by Barry Windsor-Smith (1978)

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King John granting the Magna Carta at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England, 15 June 1215

by Ernest Normand

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The three stages of Red Sonja by Frank Thorne:

- The Roy Krenkel version of the original Robert E. Howard character, Red Sonya of Rogatino, introduced in the story The Shadow of the Vulture.

- Red Sonja, the character created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith in 1973, adapting Howard’s Red Sonya and transporting her to the Hyborian Age where she could interact with Conan the Barbarian.

- Red Sonya in the chainmail bikini designed by artist Esteban Maroto, and used to great effect by Frank Thorne, the artist most associated with Red Sonja during her long run at Marvel.

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Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Robert Doisneau 1949

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Solomon Kane by Barry Windsor-Smith

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The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #24 -November 1977-

poem by Robert E. Howard

art by Barry Smith & Tim Conrad

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The Alitos and flags again. Of course.

This time Mrs. Martha-Ann Alito was recorded ranting against Pride flags. We probably won't be seeing the rainbow colors on the flagpoles at the Alitos' Virginia house or their beachfront cottage in New Jersey.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s wife, Martha-Ann, recently told a woman posing as a conservative supporter that she wanted to fly a Catholic flag at the couple’s Virginia home in response to a Pride flag in her neighborhood. “You know what I want?” the justice’s wife said to the woman, Lauren Windsor, who secretly recorded the conversation during a black-tie event last week at the Supreme Court. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.” But Ms. Alito said that after she suggested the Sacred Heart of Jesus flag as a retort to the symbol for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, her husband said, “Oh, please, don’t put up a flag.”

At least Justice Alito seems to be moving away of his own flag phase.

She said that she had agreed, for now, but that she had told him that “when you are free of this nonsense,” “I’m putting it up and I’m going to send them a message every day, maybe every week. I’ll be changing the flags.” She added that she would come up with her own flag, which would be white with yellow and orange flames and read, in Italian, “shame.”

Apparently Mrs. Alito intends to become the Shame Nun of her neighborhood. Move over, Hannah Waddingham!

The segment with Ms. Alito, which is roughly six minutes long, includes a wide-ranging conversation in which the justice’s wife appears to voice frustration with the media and liberals. Justice Alito did not respond to a request for comment earlier in the day about a secret recording of his conversation with Ms. Windsor, and a court spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a late-evening request for comment on the recording of Ms. Alito.

She suggests that she'll be unleashing her self-described Teutonic wrath upon people who stand in her way.

“Look at me, look at me,” Ms. Alito said. “I’m German, from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m going to give it back to you.” She did not elaborate.

Justice Alito may be getting tired of flags but he's still showing signs of his Christian nationalism.

The Alitos and Roberts discuss politically sensitive topics in secret recordings by liberal activist

In conversation with the activist, who represented herself as a religious conservative and did not disclose in the recordings she released that she was producing them and would make them public, Justice Alito endorses her suggestion that “people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that – to return our country to a place of Godliness.” “Well, I agree with you, I agree with you,” Alito says. At another point, the activist represents herself as a devout Catholic, telling the justice, “I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that, like, needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.” “I think you’re probably right,” Alito responds. “On one side or the other — one side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working,  a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So, it’s not like you are going to split the difference.” 

Somehow, many people like the Alitos who push "godliness" also support Donald Trump who's an adjudicated sex offender, a serial liar, and a corrupt businessman who never goes to church except for weddings, funerals, and campaign events.

Although I mostly disagree with him politically, Chief Justice Roberts at least has some concept of American values.

During last week’s event, Windsor also secretly recorded a conservation she had with Chief Justice John Roberts. In that exchange, the chief can be heard on tape rebuffing some of Windsor’s comments, including her position that the Supreme Court should be “guiding” the US as a “Christian nation.” “Yeah, I don’t know that we live in a Christian nation. I know a lot of Jewish and Muslim friends who would say maybe not,” Roberts says in the recording. “And it’s not our job to do that. It’s our job to decide the cases as best we can.”

So two cheers for Roberts and two thumbs down for the Alitos.

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Conan The Thief by Barry Windsor-Smith

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Minor thing that's ultimately pretty insignificant but it bothers me because I'm a freaking nerd

Nick has only played two royals: Robert and Henry; George is not royalty, he is nobility

Royalty refers to the immediate family of the reigning monarch, therefore Prince Robert, son of King Rowan, and Prince Henry, grandson of King James III, are royalty

Nobility refers to individuals and their families who have inherited or have been granted a noble title. George Villiers was given dukedom by King James I, but he is obviously not from the King's immediate family, therefore he was nobility.

Actually, Nick himself descended from Russian nobility, the house of Golitsyn. Had the Russian imperial system survived, his title would have been "Prince" (lmfao), but that would be a noble prince, not a royal prince like Prince William or, heck, the kind of title Henry has. I don't think he has any blood relations to the Tsar.

Again this isn't really that important but jeez interviewers get your facts right

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1975 ad for the Conan the Barbarian Treasury Edition. Marvel.

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oh hi Mary & George!!

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