{"id":11290,"date":"2012-04-18T02:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2012-04-18T02:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:31:59","slug":"virgil-finlays-tarzan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/18\/virgil-finlays-tarzan\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Finlay’s Tarzan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks are due to Ty Reutel for alerting my attention to this one. I’d no idea that the great Virgil Finlay had illustrated Tarzan but here’s the proof, one half of an interior drawing for The Quest of Tarzan<\/em><\/a> in Argosy Weekly<\/em> for 1941. That’s the first surprise, the second, of course, was that Finlay had copied Frederic Leighton’s Athlete Wrestling with a Python<\/em> (1877) ( below), a sculpture which has been a subject of discussion here recently. I’ve mentioned before my including Leighton’s work in one of my Lovecraft adaptations; I referred to many other artworks in those stories but never made any direct reference to Virgil Finlay even though he was the original illustrator of Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark<\/em> when it was first published in Weird Tales<\/em> in 1936. Finlay’s illustrations for that story later appeared with some of my own in the enormous Centipede Press collection<\/a> of Lovecraft art so it’s strange to find that we were also led to the same Leighton sculpture.<\/p>\n

Tarzan illustration has been in my thoughts for the past few weeks while I’ve been at work (again!) on the collected Reverbstorm<\/em><\/a>, many pages of which played variations on Burne Hogarth’s comic adaptations of the Tarzan stories. Reverbstorm<\/em> is at long last very close to being finally, absolutely finished, and ready for printing in a single definitive volume. No production schedule just yet but any news will be announced here.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Frederic Leighton\u2019s sculptures<\/a>
\n\u2022 Virgil Finlay\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a>
\n\u2022 Die Farbe and The Colour Out of Space<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lovecraft\u2019s favourite artists revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Angelo Colarossi and son<\/a>
\n\u2022 The monstrous tome<\/a>
\n\u2022 Men with snakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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