Tarzan's breath-taking return to new adventures
Hey! Love high adventure?
You're here because you love Tarzan. You just might feel they don't make'em like that anymore! And I'm not the guy to argue THAT!
Tarzan's books began a century ago, with Edgar Rice Burroughs- at a whopping dime per word- captivating imaginations the world over.
Saturday afternoons brought us black and white Tarzan thrills with Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabbe. (My pal Ron Frenz- who cut his teeth in the Savage Land drawing Ka-Zar- actually shared a theater with Crabbe one night!)
(I love elephants. I want to tell you about the elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka...look it up and I will tell you, later.)
That's the first Tarzan y'boy C Lue remembers. Even to the present day, the legendary Lord Greystroke has entered the Hollywood jungle, with a 2015 entry atarring Alexander Skarsgard that took on modern sensibilities head-on. I feel LEGEND will only grow in cult stature.
Frazetta's ACE Tarzan covers, like all things Frazetta, gave Tarzan a pulp life and new fans after his films had fallen out of style to make.
But the '70's were a great time for high adventure revived in comics and magazines. The much-loved property was graced by stellar artistic talent like Joe Kubert and John Buscema, to just begin the list, which absolutely, to my mind, is defined by Burne Hogarth. Burne's books of illustration belong on the shelf of anyone aspiring to draw athletic figures in action to this day. If you want to learn the Classical style of figure drawing, these are your teachers.
A great way to preserve those adventures through adaptations by masters like Roy Thomas, to be sure. But what in the modern mind is the creative response to this archetypal mythos?
Tom Grindberg, after a feisty career in comics, finally got his dream job illustrating the new novels coming out this year. Take a step back: he became the illustrator of The New Adventures of Tarzan Sunday strip! Here's a 2014 sample of his work before it was colored.
Now, imagine turning this guy loose on the newly-authorized canon novels here in the 21st century! On his Facebook page, Tom's been gracing us with illos for the project, so if you love Tarzan, you should keep an eye out for that!
So, what inspired me to evoke The Lord of the Jungle today?
As a curator of classic adventure, I love passing along the original stories that won the hearts of fans and inspire modern creators world-wide. Just as importantly to me, I love to connect the history of your favorites to the creators still with us, some of whom, like Tom, and the next guy below, using skill and experience to turn in their most senses=shattering career work.
Here: this is from my friend David Anthony Kraft, who wrote the very first NEW Tarzan graphic novel at Marvel! Imagine a modern telling of another time! Breath-taking storytelling with crackling visual detail at today's level of print technique! DAK, Onrie, and a diehard squad bring to life the cinematic epic Yi Soon Shin. It's NOT your daughter's Manga!- C Lue
DAK says:I wrote the first new Tarzan novel in comics for Marvel (Gold Key, DC and, until me, Marvel too had all done adaptations from time immemorial, or at least a couple decades). In so doing, I kicked off a renaissance of original Tarzan stories in comics that continues to this day. For me, it was a dream and it happened yesterday; for those who measure time in mortal years, well, let's not go there. So it occurs to me that some of you devoted Edgar Rice Burroughs fans may find Yi Soon Shin up your adventure alley -- and so, since it is more untamed than once the Comics Code would allow, but a rousing adventure ala ERB, and because you can read the first three issues FREE to see if it's for you while our current Kickstarter campaign is running, I'll include the link in comments below. And if you really want to know more, check out the most recent Rap with DAK on my Facebook page.
(Does he know what he's letting himself in for? A true soldier- C Lue)
Look, I bought those first four issues myself, and now, you can read three for free! I'm just telling you, as a lover of high adventure,
this is a real story brought to dramatic life, and it just might fire you up for whatever challenge comes to your life. If Yi could fight a mighty armada, surely a spirit like that deserves to live on in imaginations today. The Yi team is right there on Kickstarter. Tell'em C Lue sent ya!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yisoonshin/yi-soon-shin-hunter-and-destroyer-1?ref=email
You're here because you love Tarzan. You just might feel they don't make'em like that anymore! And I'm not the guy to argue THAT!
Tarzan's books began a century ago, with Edgar Rice Burroughs- at a whopping dime per word- captivating imaginations the world over.
Saturday afternoons brought us black and white Tarzan thrills with Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabbe. (My pal Ron Frenz- who cut his teeth in the Savage Land drawing Ka-Zar- actually shared a theater with Crabbe one night!)
That's the first Tarzan y'boy C Lue remembers. Even to the present day, the legendary Lord Greystroke has entered the Hollywood jungle, with a 2015 entry atarring Alexander Skarsgard that took on modern sensibilities head-on. I feel LEGEND will only grow in cult stature.
Frazetta's ACE Tarzan covers, like all things Frazetta, gave Tarzan a pulp life and new fans after his films had fallen out of style to make.
But the '70's were a great time for high adventure revived in comics and magazines. The much-loved property was graced by stellar artistic talent like Joe Kubert and John Buscema, to just begin the list, which absolutely, to my mind, is defined by Burne Hogarth. Burne's books of illustration belong on the shelf of anyone aspiring to draw athletic figures in action to this day. If you want to learn the Classical style of figure drawing, these are your teachers.
Tom Grindberg, after a feisty career in comics, finally got his dream job illustrating the new novels coming out this year. Take a step back: he became the illustrator of The New Adventures of Tarzan Sunday strip! Here's a 2014 sample of his work before it was colored.
So, what inspired me to evoke The Lord of the Jungle today?
As a curator of classic adventure, I love passing along the original stories that won the hearts of fans and inspire modern creators world-wide. Just as importantly to me, I love to connect the history of your favorites to the creators still with us, some of whom, like Tom, and the next guy below, using skill and experience to turn in their most senses=shattering career work.
Here: this is from my friend David Anthony Kraft, who wrote the very first NEW Tarzan graphic novel at Marvel! Imagine a modern telling of another time! Breath-taking storytelling with crackling visual detail at today's level of print technique! DAK, Onrie, and a diehard squad bring to life the cinematic epic Yi Soon Shin. It's NOT your daughter's Manga!- C Lue
DAK says:I wrote the first new Tarzan novel in comics for Marvel (Gold Key, DC and, until me, Marvel too had all done adaptations from time immemorial, or at least a couple decades). In so doing, I kicked off a renaissance of original Tarzan stories in comics that continues to this day. For me, it was a dream and it happened yesterday; for those who measure time in mortal years, well, let's not go there. So it occurs to me that some of you devoted Edgar Rice Burroughs fans may find Yi Soon Shin up your adventure alley -- and so, since it is more untamed than once the Comics Code would allow, but a rousing adventure ala ERB, and because you can read the first three issues FREE to see if it's for you while our current Kickstarter campaign is running, I'll include the link in comments below. And if you really want to know more, check out the most recent Rap with DAK on my Facebook page.
(Does he know what he's letting himself in for? A true soldier- C Lue)
Look, I bought those first four issues myself, and now, you can read three for free! I'm just telling you, as a lover of high adventure,
this is a real story brought to dramatic life, and it just might fire you up for whatever challenge comes to your life. If Yi could fight a mighty armada, surely a spirit like that deserves to live on in imaginations today. The Yi team is right there on Kickstarter. Tell'em C Lue sent ya!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yisoonshin/yi-soon-shin-hunter-and-destroyer-1?ref=email
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