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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2016 17:54:50 GMT -5
Turns out, Lenny Kaye, guitarist for Patti Smith, was an ERB fan: Two more issues [of Amazing magazine] from 1960, which more and more seems to me to be the year Cele Goldsmith really began to hit her stride. (...)
The letter column features Mike Deckinger; B. Joseph Fekete, Jr.; Paul Shingleton, Jr.; Paul Zimmer, Scott Neilson; Bob Adolfsen, N. C., Lenny Kaye; and A. D. Scofield. The only names I recognized were Zimmer (Marion Zimmer Bradley’s brother) and Kaye, whose letter is his first, wherein he calls himself “the loneliest fan in the state of New Jersey.” Kaye’s second letter appeared the next issue … I’ll discuss him in the next paragraph.
The July issue’s editorial is about a couple of SF ideas then coming true: ion engines, and electronic locks. (...)
But the most interesting name, to me, is Lenny Kaye – he was 14 at the time, and he wrote to praise the artist Valigursky, to complain about Norman Lobsenz’ editorials, and to ask to get in contact with more Edgar Rice Burroughs fans. Nothing much too different there … but Lenny Kaye was soon publishing a fanzine (Obelisk), and after graduating from Rutgers, became (mildly) famous in another field: as a rock guitarist and producer, probably best known for playing lead guitar in Patti Smith’s band, but he also worked with R. E. M., Suzanne Vega and others.The entire post is here: www.blackgate.com/2016/02/22/retro-reviews-amazing-science-fiction-june-1960-and-july-1960/Harper Lee died the other day. ERB's Tarzan is mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird. Just goes to show how pervasive Burroughs' fame and influence was in the '50s and '60s.  |
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2016 19:54:33 GMT -5
The ERBzine website is a massive resource for ERB fans, updated weekly. REH fandom has nothing to compare. Check it out here: www.erbzine.com/ |
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2016 13:46:25 GMT -5
A plate drawn by Frazetta for Pellucidar:  |
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2016 16:10:04 GMT -5
A lot of people don't realize that the ERB estate is publishing some great digital comics. Check 'em out here: www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/I remember posters at conan.com asking, "What's Gary Kwapisz doing?" He's here, and so are other Conan/REH comics greats like Roy Thomas, Chuck Dixon, Pablo Marcos, Tom Grindberg, Martin Powell and others. Don't just sit there. These stories are great and they're cheap. You're supporting some of the coolest comics creators out there and keeping the Burroughs spirit alive. REH (who owned more ERB books than those of any other author) would agree.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 16:20:30 GMT -5
The Roy Thomas Tom Grindberg Tarzan looks impressive. I remember the Frazetta/Tarzanesque cover he did for Conan the Savage 9.  |
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Post by KiramidHead on Feb 25, 2016 16:48:04 GMT -5
A plate drawn by Frazetta for Pellucidar:  Also, I haven't read a lot of ERB, but The Land that Time Forgot trilogy has been one of my favorites for years. I've worn that paperback out something fierce. |
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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2016 17:28:33 GMT -5
A quote from John Maddox Roberts: When I studied screenwriting at USC in 1978, one of the scripts we were given to study was an early, pirated draft of “Äpocalypse Now.” It was, needless to say, wildly at variance with the finished Coppola film. Only bits got through in the finished film, and Milius’s vision was for a low-budget, B&W film modeled on Sam Fuller’s classic grade-B war movies like “The Steel Helmet”and “China Gate.” One bit of dialogue I dearly wish had made it into the movie was a conversation between Kurtz and Willard in which Kurtz says that western literature never correctly portrayed the true nature of man and came close only once. Willard asks when that was. “Tarzan,” Kurtz replies, “the wild man of the woods who is himself a part of his environment.”
Would've been cool to see that make it to the finished movie.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2016 1:59:46 GMT -5
Just heard from ace comics scribe Martin Powell that the new webcomics for The Eternal Savage and The Lost Continent are out from ERB Comics. Great stuff. Cool, faithful adaptations of ERB from when he was in his creative prime. These comics are very reasonably priced. www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2016 2:02:23 GMT -5
A quote from John Maddox Roberts: When I studied screenwriting at USC in 1978, one of the scripts we were given to study was an early, pirated draft of “Äpocalypse Now.” It was, needless to say, wildly at variance with the finished Coppola film. Only bits got through in the finished film, and Milius’s vision was for a low-budget, B&W film modeled on Sam Fuller’s classic grade-B war movies like “The Steel Helmet”and “China Gate.” One bit of dialogue I dearly wish had made it into the movie was a conversation between Kurtz and Willard in which Kurtz says that western literature never correctly portrayed the true nature of man and came close only once. Willard asks when that was. “Tarzan,” Kurtz replies, “the wild man of the woods who is himself a part of his environment.”
Would've been cool to see that make it to the finished movie. JMR has stated several times he's a Burroughs fan. Oops. Hit "quote" instead of "edit". |
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Post by deuce on Mar 5, 2016 18:36:27 GMT -5
Written just over 95 years ago...
Books appeal to me in a way that is difficult of either expression or analysis. I like to handle them and to own them. I hate to see them abused. I sometimes fancy that an adult who habitually marks his place in a volume by turning down the corner of a leaf would kick a dog or strike a horse without even provocation of anger. I think I love books, though God knows I am about as far from being high-brow as one can get and yet pass the literacy test.
But underlying all this is the stern necessity that prompts (the marketer) to sell books and me to write them - the thing that is the real thing in life after all. I mean the ability properly to provide for ourselves and our families. It is the box office receipts that really count most while we live. No man can go out after fame, as I rode out this morning, after a young bull I have in pasture, and achieve it. Incidentally I failed to achieve the bull.
But what I started to get over is that if a man is entitled to fame it will come -- usually after he is dead -- but he can't rope it and drag it in. He can, however, go out after box office receipts, and if he shoots straight and plays fair he need not be ashamed, whether his success is great or small.... Since I started writing I have learned that our readers like to meet us -- why, God alone knows; but they do. If Mary Roberts Rhinehart is anything like her books and her pictures I can understand why people should want to meet her; but just why they should hone to know a bald-headed old man is beyond me -- the world is already too full of bald-headed old men.
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Anything that might help to make books more saleable would be welcomed by the retailer. I know, because I used to sell books myself. I had a book shop in Pocatello, Idaho, when cheap editions cost me fourteen cents and Munsey's Magazine sold for ten cents and cost me nine and weighed over a pound and the postage wa a cent a pound and I am still trying to figure where my profits occurred, especially in those recurring periods that it was non-returnable.
That reminds me that I also sold books at another time and in another manner. I was equipped with a long thing that telescoped like an accordion and Mrs. Burroughs made me a little black bag with a shoulder strap, that I put on over my vest. I carried the THING in the little black bag hidden under my coat tails. It might have looked as though I was ashamed of it; but I was not supposed to be and I was. And I wandered around a large city shoving my foot inside front doors before weary house-wives could slam the doors in my face and if I succeeded in getting in and planting myself on their best plush furniture I commenced to recite, parrot-like, a long and hideous lie, interspersed occasionally with facts. The initial and most colossal falsehood of that shameful aggregation still haunts my memories. It was: "Mr. Stoddard has asked me to call on you, Mrs. Brown." Even now I blush as I type it.
From an article written by Edgar Rice Burroughs for
The American News Trade Journal
at Tarzana Ranch on February 12, 1921
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Post by deuce on Mar 6, 2016 9:35:50 GMT -5
A quote from John Maddox Roberts: When I studied screenwriting at USC in 1978, one of the scripts we were given to study was an early, pirated draft of “Äpocalypse Now.” It was, needless to say, wildly at variance with the finished Coppola film. Only bits got through in the finished film, and Milius’s vision was for a low-budget, B&W film modeled on Sam Fuller’s classic grade-B war movies like “The Steel Helmet”and “China Gate.” One bit of dialogue I dearly wish had made it into the movie was a conversation between Kurtz and Willard in which Kurtz says that western literature never correctly portrayed the true nature of man and came close only once. Willard asks when that was. “Tarzan,” Kurtz replies, “the wild man of the woods who is himself a part of his environment.”
Would've been cool to see that make it to the finished movie. There is that one scene where the camera pans over the books that Kurtz has lying around. Perhaps his copy of Tarzan was hidden at the bottom of the pile.  Although somehow I suspect that Brando's Kurtz probably wasn't the right audience for Burroughs' story. And there's that scene where Willard and Chef encounter the tiger in the jungle, which serves to highlight the fact that man is very much not part of that particular environment.  Well, not modern, civilized man. ERB's The Jungle Girl/ Land of Hidden Men (a classic) actually has an American in the Cambodian/Thai jungle become lost and stripped of his civilized crutches. It and the last part of Apocalypse Now both feature Khmer ruins.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 10, 2016 18:45:27 GMT -5
Roy Krenkel's "The Apotheosis of St. John (J. Allen, That Is)". RGK's tribute to the great ERB illustrator.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 10, 2016 18:50:31 GMT -5
A young Tarzan by Alex Nino:  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 11, 2016 14:50:35 GMT -5
Tarzan by Jeffrey Jones:  |
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Post by zarono on Mar 11, 2016 16:15:11 GMT -5
A young Tarzan by Alex Nino: That is some cool stuff! |
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