After making the post about
ANDROMEDA
and how the distribution arm of the Silver Snail empire had reused the name that Ron Van Leeuwen had previously used for his venture into publishing...
I present to you the covers of those books because they deserve to seen, in a larger format, than the few tiny images of them that I have been able to find on-line.
John Allison painted this cover in 1976
and together with Tony Meers, drew the main feature.
I have tried to find him by searching the Web
but so far, I am not having any luck.
Where are you today Mr. Allison?
Speaking of people that I cannot find.
Don Marshall painted this cover and contributed
stories inside too.
I have to admit that I love this cover and Don's use of colour in all of the examples of his art that I have.
Paul Rivoche,
young and full of energy, painted a terrific adaptation of
Exile of the Aeons and this wonderful wrap-around cover too.
I actually had the opportunity to chat with Mr. Rivoche
at the TCAF back in May of this year.
He is still a Toronto based artist and still tremendously talented too.
Okay, this cover is a total oddity because I have absolutely no idea who, Ramy Bar-Elan, the cover artist, is!
A search of the Web turns up nothing more than we already know, that he painted this cover but who was he and why was he asked to do the cover of this issue?
Another great use of colour on this cover,
John Allison does it again.
Tom Nesbitt got to show what he could do with this cover assignment and he turned in a great one!
I love the way he subtly changed the style of the title lettering and gave it the feel of the fairyland style characters in the background of the illustration.
I believe that I have actually located Tom Nesbitt.
Computers are a wonderful tool and when coupled to the Internet, anyone can be an amateur sleuth!
Judging by the style of his drawings,
http://tnanimation.blogspot.ca
is the place to find him on-line. Physically, he says that he lives in West Vancouver, BC, Canada
and turns his skilled hands to a variety of artistic pursuits.
This was Franc Reyes baby and he is still very much active in the Animation Industry. In fact, just a couple of years ago, he put out an art book, Visual Concepts, that showed a cross section of his work in animation.
Don Marshall, with his usual palette of beautiful colours,
did this cover but the lead story is the interesting thing here
because it was written by
Ron Van Leeuwen and George Olshevsky.
Yes folks, the owner of The Silver Snail and the guy who put together the original Marvel Comics Index,
moonlighted as writers!
This, the third and last of the Arik Khan sagas,
is graced by a cover from the hands of Tom Nesbitt.
Tom also got the lead story in this issue, also from the talented pens of Ron Van Leeuwen and George Olshevsky.
All of these books saw the light of day before 1980!
Arik Khan #3 is dated June 1979 and
Andromeda #6 is dated November 1979.
Ron Van Leeuwen is now retired, having sold The Silver Snail to George Zotti, the former manager of the store and Mark Gingras, his financial partner, in 2011.
The store had to move to a new location, at the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street,
here in Toronto and they continue to serve the city's comic book collectors.
George Olshevsky,
lives in San Diego, if Wikipedia is correct and continues to be a cataloguer, only now it is dinosaurs and polyhedra
that keep him busy.
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