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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