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A Hannes Bok Treasury
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87 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1993
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Hannes Bok
94 books7 followersHannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard, was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. Bok was the first artist to win a Hugo Award.
Today, Bok is best known for his cover art which appeared on various pulp and science fiction magazines, such as Weird Tales, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Other Worlds, Super Science Stories, Imagination, Fantasy Fiction, Planet Stories, If, Castle of Frankenstein, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Today, Bok is best known for his cover art which appeared on various pulp and science fiction magazines, such as Weird Tales, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Other Worlds, Super Science Stories, Imagination, Fantasy Fiction, Planet Stories, If, Castle of Frankenstein, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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October 5, 2012
Hannes Bok was an American fantasy/pulp SF artist. His style was very distinct, unworldly, and very reminiscent of old fantasy paperbacks from the 50s or earlier. Lots of bug-eyed monsters, gargoyles, elves, often slavering lasciviously over naked women. This collection of color paintings and pen-and-ink drawings is a nicely detailed though small sample. Freud would have a field day analyzing Bok's drawings, but they are wildly different from the Frazetta/Vallejo mold.
October 3, 2017
Hannes Bok was the co-winner of the first Hugo award for best artist in the field of science fiction and fantasy. That was in 1952. At that time, he had only been "Hannes Bok" for thirteen years.
As the very informative introduction to this book tells, Bok had been born with the name Wayne Woodard in Kansas City, Missouri in 1914. The introduction goes on to say that after Wayne graduated from high school, he "severed all ties" with his "strict, uncompromising" father. His parents had been divorced when he was five and his mother had left Wayne and his three siblings with their father. In 1932, he moved to be with his mother in Seattle. At that time, he "used the next few years to educate himself as an artist." In 1939, Wayne started using the name Hannes Bok.
The introduction says that Bok's major influence as an artist was Maxfield Parrish, which is readily apparent if you know the work of both artists. Some of the color plates in this book show Bok fantasy figures living under Maxfield Parrish skies.
Bok was certainly not trying to be a second Parrish. His black and white drawings and many of his colored pictures are more bizarre than anything I have seen by Parrish. Some of the black and white pictures seem to me to resemble some of Boris Artybasheff's fantasy drawings.
There are ninety illustrations here, half of them in color, so we see how far-ranging Bok's work was. There are pictures in this book that I don't like. Bok's picture for the dust jacket of John Campbell's book Who Goes There? strikes me as being terrible. (I wonder what Campbell thought of it.) His illustration on page 62 is labeled just "black and white illustration," but it was actually designed to be a picture on which the author Fredric Brown would base a story. The story is titled "The Frownzly Florgels." The story and the illustration were published in the October, 1950 issue of Other Worlds Science Stories. The story is awful, but then so is the picture.
But there are many more pictures here I do like. The picture on the cover was originally used as the cover of the November, 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It illustrated Roger Zelazny's story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." This time, this story is superb, and so is the picture.
Other pictures I especially like are the dragon and the children (page 10), the women's faces (pages 40 and 41), the illustration for "Mantle of Frosty Stars" (page 63), and the illustration for "Pickman's Model" (page 71).
I wouldn't count on my memory being correct, but I think some of the reproduced magazine covers have colors different from the covers themselves; I could certainly be wrong.
There is a fine introduction to the book by Ray Bradbury.
Hannes Bok died in 1964, apparently from a heart attack. He was only 49 years old.
As the very informative introduction to this book tells, Bok had been born with the name Wayne Woodard in Kansas City, Missouri in 1914. The introduction goes on to say that after Wayne graduated from high school, he "severed all ties" with his "strict, uncompromising" father. His parents had been divorced when he was five and his mother had left Wayne and his three siblings with their father. In 1932, he moved to be with his mother in Seattle. At that time, he "used the next few years to educate himself as an artist." In 1939, Wayne started using the name Hannes Bok.
The introduction says that Bok's major influence as an artist was Maxfield Parrish, which is readily apparent if you know the work of both artists. Some of the color plates in this book show Bok fantasy figures living under Maxfield Parrish skies.
Bok was certainly not trying to be a second Parrish. His black and white drawings and many of his colored pictures are more bizarre than anything I have seen by Parrish. Some of the black and white pictures seem to me to resemble some of Boris Artybasheff's fantasy drawings.
There are ninety illustrations here, half of them in color, so we see how far-ranging Bok's work was. There are pictures in this book that I don't like. Bok's picture for the dust jacket of John Campbell's book Who Goes There? strikes me as being terrible. (I wonder what Campbell thought of it.) His illustration on page 62 is labeled just "black and white illustration," but it was actually designed to be a picture on which the author Fredric Brown would base a story. The story is titled "The Frownzly Florgels." The story and the illustration were published in the October, 1950 issue of Other Worlds Science Stories. The story is awful, but then so is the picture.
But there are many more pictures here I do like. The picture on the cover was originally used as the cover of the November, 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It illustrated Roger Zelazny's story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." This time, this story is superb, and so is the picture.
Other pictures I especially like are the dragon and the children (page 10), the women's faces (pages 40 and 41), the illustration for "Mantle of Frosty Stars" (page 63), and the illustration for "Pickman's Model" (page 71).
I wouldn't count on my memory being correct, but I think some of the reproduced magazine covers have colors different from the covers themselves; I could certainly be wrong.
There is a fine introduction to the book by Ray Bradbury.
Hannes Bok died in 1964, apparently from a heart attack. He was only 49 years old.
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