Xotica - The Art Of Esteban Moroto 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 The Pin-Up Art Of Archie Dickens vols.1 & 2 Girls On Top ! - The Pin-up Art Of Matt Dixon Barry Blair & Colin Walbridge: Nymphettes Sorceress - The Mike Hoffman Sketchbook (vol.1) Inferno - The Art Of Tomas Giorello The Beast Within - The Art Of Ken Barr Nik Guerra: Undressed - A Gallery Of Fetishwear The Art Of Gennadiy Koufay - Heatwave The Pin-Up Art Of Jay Scott Pike Tommy Castillo: Dragons, Myths & Mayhem The Savage Art Of Bob Larkin vol.1 Fatal Beauty - The Boada Sketchbook The Art Of Monte M. Moore - Mystica The Art Of Michael Möbius - Sheer Desire Spellbound - The Keith Parkinson Sketchbook Flesh & Fire 2 - The Blas Gallego Sketchbook vol.2 Pucker - The Seductive Art Of Matt Busch Cruel And Unusual - The Greg Loudon Sketchbook Savage Hearts - The Clyde Caldwell Sketchbook Vol.1 Kingsgate: The Art Of Keith Parkinson Midnight High - The Deadly Art of Tom Artis Hellbent - The Art Of Flint Henry Michal Dutkiewicz: Girls ! - From Line To Color SEND US A COMMENT (goes via e-mail - all info kept anonymous, but comment itself may be shared . . .) |