Jeff Jones & Vaughn Bode

Following on, from my last post, 

we come to the cover of Warren's Vamirella, issue four and 

another stunning collaboration but this time, 

Vaughn combined his talent with Jeff Jones.

The image above, shows the colour scheme of the printed cover, the one that I fell in love with, way back in the early Seventies, when I first saw it.

This, is the actual painting!

Which is also lovely but it was quite a shock to discover that, at least a part of the painting that I had fallen in love with, never existed and was a function of someone in the Warren Empire's Graphics department!

The wonderful thing about the Internet, at least for me, is the amazing dissemination of information, which allows GEEKS like me, to indulge their curiosity, to the MAX!

Larry Todd & Vaughn Bode

I was reminded, the other day, of the artistic collaborations of 

Larry Todd & Vaughn Bode 

and how much I had loved that artwork!

This was used by Jim Warren, as the front cover for his Vampirella magazine, issue number three and it 

still lightens my heart, every time I look at it.

Interestingly, this photograph, of Larry and Vaughn, was taken at about the same time that they painted the cover, which would make it around 1969 or 1970.

Larry and Vaughn combined their talents quite a few times and the results were always colourful and interesting.  Here are a few of their efforts:

Vaughn also collaborated on paintings with Jeff Jones but that is a subject for another posting.

Larry Todd went on, later in life, to be a carnival hoarding painter and in 2012, he was briefly interviewed about his occupation:

larry todd carnival painter

and this is how he looked then

at the age of 64.

As far as I can tell, in searching the Web, Larry is a still alive and kicking but whether or not, he is still a working artist, is open to question.

Larry Todd is now 71 years old and had Vaughn managed to escape his fate and survive the "experiment" that ended his life, in 1975, he would be 78!

Sometimes I like to wonder and imagine, all that has been lost.