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Xotica - The Art Of Esteban Moroto
(1995 - SQP (Sal Quartuccio Publications)) 
 This is a 64-page collection of inked drawings with the front, back & inner covers presenting another 4 paintings. There's a single page of introduction and everything else is art. Only three of those pages are layouts of multiple smaller images, but unfortunately, two of those are grey-scale displays of Maroto's painted zodiac plates. The contents are almost completely barbarian adventure. There is no captioning whatsoever, but singular costume pieces identify some of the personages as Conan, Red Sonja and Kull. You'll also find the assorted magic-wielders, bizarre beasties and female nudes you would expect to in such sword-&-sorcery illustrations. Some of the sultry sorceresses fall easily into the pin-up genre. Maroto occasionally employs a unique clean-line mystical style that I enjoy a lot and a few such pieces are on display here. There's some other experimentation as well, but I would say the bulk of the illustrations show a broader, looser (perhaps more spontaneous & exciting) style that I associate with John Buscema's barbarian comics.
other SQP monographs
      SQP's Fastner & Larson books
  The Pin-Up Art Of Archie Dickens vols.1 & 2
 Girls On Top ! - The Pin-up Art Of Matt Dixon
 The Art Of Walter Girotto
 The Art Of John Bolton
  SQP's Dave Nestler books
 Barry Blair & Colin Walbridge: Nymphettes
 Sorceress - The Mike Hoffman Sketchbook (vol.1)
 Inferno - The Art Of Tomas Giorello
  SQP's Rich Larson books
 The Beast Within - The Art Of Ken Barr
 Nik Guerra: Undressed - A Gallery Of Fetishwear
 The Art Of Gennadiy Koufay - Heatwave
 The Art Of Rudy D. Nebres
 The Art Of Pelaez
 The Pin-Up Art Of Jay Scott Pike
 The Dark Art Of Tony Mauro
 Tommy Castillo: Dragons, Myths & Mayhem
 The Daniel Horne Sketchbook
 The Savage Art Of Bob Larkin vol.1
 Sanjulian - Master Visionary
 Fatal Beauty - The Boada Sketchbook
 The Art Of Monte M. Moore - Mystica
 The Art Of Michael Möbius - Sheer Desire
 The Art Of Ricky Carralero
 The Art of Andreas Raufeisen
 Spellbound - The Keith Parkinson Sketchbook
 Flesh & Fire 2 - The Blas Gallego Sketchbook vol.2
 Pucker - The Seductive Art Of Matt Busch
   SQP's Wolf books
 Cruel And Unusual - The Greg Loudon Sketchbook
 The Art Of Roca
 Savage Hearts - The Clyde Caldwell Sketchbook Vol.1
 The Art Of Maxx Marshall
 Kingsgate: The Art Of Keith Parkinson
 The Art Of Mitch Byrd
 Midnight High - The Deadly Art of Tom Artis
 Hellbent - The Art Of Flint Henry
 Michal Dutkiewicz: Girls ! - From Line To Color
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