CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTIONS!
Conan Chronicles Epic Collection: Out Of The Darksome Hills
Marvel announces the Conan Chronicles Epic Collection series, collecting Conan stories from 2004-2017.
Interview: Timothy Truman on Dark Horse’s King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel
King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel #1 cover by Darick Robertson
Writer Timothy Truman talks about his upcoming work on Dark Horse’s King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel.
For Your Consideration: Dark Horse’s Conan The Newspaper Strips Vol. 1
by Robert Greenberger
It should surprise no one that pulp writer Robert E. Howard read the funny pages. After all, growing up in Texas back in the 1920s, there really weren’t a lot of entertainment options. Historians have discovered a 1923 letter from Howard to Clyde Tevis Smith, a fantasy writer and close friend, dating back to their attending high school together. The letter included what was described as a crudely-drawn, but funny strip involving a caveman’s attempts to woo his girl, who is playing hard to get.
No doubt he would have been surprised and a bit delighted to see that one of his literary creations grew popular enough to merit his own comic strip. While adventure comic strips were already waning as television’s reach grew during the 1970s, there remained blips of activity, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s as strips based on popular movies and comics were tried out.