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"As he stared into the diamond glitter he saw its brilliance slowly melt and darken, until the pinpoints of light had changed to pools that dimmed, and he was looking into black evil as elemental and vast as the space between the worlds, a dizzying blankness wherein dwelt unnameable horror . . . deep, deep . . . all about him the darkness was clouding.
Japanese Editions of C.L. Moore’s Northwest Smith collections Art by Leiji Matsumoto
~ Y🌞V🌟A⚡️L✨A ~ More art of my favourite space cowboy Northwest Smith and his partner in crime Yarol, the Venusian. Characters of the great C.L.Moore
SHAMBLEAU AND OTHERS by C.L. Moore. (New York: Gnome Press, 1953) Cover art by Ric Binkley.
Announced by Arkham House but never published by them. This collection of stories about Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry originally appeared in Weird Tales. 4,000 copy edition.
"Black God’s Kiss" (October 1934) [Jirel of Joiry]
"Shambleau" (November 1933) [Northwest Smith]
"Black God’s Shadow" (December 1934) [Jirel of Joiry]
"Black Thirst" (April 1934) [Northwest Smith]
"The Tree of Life" (October 1936) [Northwest Smith]
"Jirel Meets Magic"(July 1935) [Jirel of Joiry]
"Scarlet Dreams" (May 1934) [Northwest Smith]
Weird Tales (October 1934) Cover by Margaret Brundage. Story illustrated by H.R. Hammond.
(New York: Galaxy Novel #31, 1957)
“Shambleau”
“Black Thirst”
“The Tree of Life”
Feeling better today than yesterday (no headache and I got better sleep than I have in a while) but I'm still not 100%, so more sketches today. First is my design for Florimel, a vampire from James Branch Cabell's's satirical novel Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. When Jurgen is sentenced to go to "the Hell of his fathers," he meets a nice vampire woman who was vacationing there. She brutally murders men, as is her nature, but she's perfectly pleasant the rest of the time. She was a seamstress who became a vampire when a cat jumped over her grave, and is described as being beautiful, with purple eyes and sharp, white teeth. The story is set during the time of King Arthur, but she doesn't die in it (she and Jurgen part amicably after a brief marriage), so I brought her fashion sense into the modern day (or rather when the comic is set). Her dress in the book is orange with green fig leaf embroidery, so I'd be continuing with that colour scheme and floral designs.
Next is Southland Brown, space smuggler - an original character heavily inspired by the Northwest Smith character created by C.L. Moore. He'll have a small part in the Mars storyline, which will follow the Paris one. My conception of him is that the Eldritch Abominations he's encountered throughout his career have compounded to give him severe PTSD which he suppresses with the Martian drug Mnemoka. Northwest Smith was of course a precursor to Han Solo and similar characters that would come later, so my design for this guy is based on a young Harrison Ford (but thinner and more scarred and weathered from hard living).
Space Opera writer E.E. Smith went to the 1956 Worldcon dressed up as C.L. Moore’s smuggler-hero, Northwest Smith...with a home made ray gun.
There is a criminal lack of art for C. L. Moore’s fantastic space cowboy Northwest Smith - so I felt I had to remedy that myself. He’s the original space outlaw (with a heart of gold) always getting into eldritch-horror-space-trouble. From the 1930s!! 🦑💫🤠
~ Y🌞V🌟A⚡️L✨A ~ More art of my favourite space cowboy Northwest Smith and his partner in crime Yarol, the Venusian. Characters of the great C.L.Moore
