Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – Page 4

Transformations from the world of “A Feast Unknown”, Part 1

The Doc Talos books are in many ways a pastiche of a pastiche. To explore facets of pulp heroism and adventure that would never be allowed in canonical or mainstream works featuring Doc Savage or Tarzan, author Philip José Farmer, for his 1969 novel A Feast Unknown, shifted to doppelgangers of those iconic characters, DocContinue reading “Transformations from the world of “A Feast Unknown”, Part 1″

Not your daddy’s Tarzan – Bellerophon Ape Man art

An explosive gallery of art from Iason Ragnar Bellerophon’s sketchbook for the novel Savages. All depict the novel’s Tarzan pastiche, Lord John Grersoun. Abstracts, kinetic figure drawings and portraits…you have never seen the Jungle Lord quite like this.

Visually conceptualizing Doc in canon and pastiche

In working to portray or extrapolate on an iconic character, one of the most powerful tools is visual presentation. Written descriptions have great power, but a superb visual can have profound impact. If one considers core Doc Savage canon to be the run of pulp magazines from 1933-1949, the visual presentation of Doc is thatContinue reading “Visually conceptualizing Doc in canon and pastiche”