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I just updated my screensaver to cycle through some of my favourite Conan artworks and this gorgeous Rob de la Torre painting came up. I liked the vibe — glowering Conan in the softly lit study — so I took this photo.

I thought you Crom-loving nerds might enjoy it.

All are a bit the worse for wear, reading copies, except for the Coronet editions, which are pretty clean. The Frazetta covers are the coolest, though.

My first thought was this is Conan and Valeria from Red Nails, but I don't remember them being on a horse when they encountered the dinosaur...

Source: The Savage Art of Bob Larkin (2009).

Glad to add these two to my new & growing S&S collection

Savage Combat in 3..2..1...

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Tarzan, but Weirder. Conan, but raised by wild beasts. Clark Ashton Smith, but more visceral and violent. An homage to the unbridled imagination of Lin Carter and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Art for Card #40 in the Mike Ploog Fantastic Art Trading Cards base set, released by FPG in 1994.

Flavor text reads, "The desert Amazons' stronghold was fiercely guarded by a scorpion beast."

Not 100% happy with it yet but we’re getting somewhere

Gonna sit by the pool and just read something new

Most people who have been on this subreddit for a decent amount of time know the core components of sword and sorcery: Personal stakes, action oriented stories, dangerous magic, etc. What are some of your favorite sword and sorcery works that aren't afraid to push that definition?

For me personally, one of them is the Kane series. With its villain protagonist, forays in to epic scope, and Wagner's love for dark complexity, it has a tendency to push what one might consider sword and sorcery and as a result has an interesting place in the subgenre.