HM Artwork ripped from comics/RPGs
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 7:59 pm
So I recently got obsessed with proving that Sodom's "Witching Metal" was based on the early Conan comics (especially when I read that Angelripper took full credit for it haha). Ended up reading through something like 70+ issues...and it often was so damn close...
...so close...
...still not enough...
Until finally, Conan #30 "The Devil Beasts of Nergal" illustrated by James Buscema:
BINGO! Tom you forgot the Sword sheath!
This made me want to set up some sort of list or index of the origins of album artwork "borrowed" from comics (Living Death's Vengeance From Hell/Worlds Neuroses are of course traced from Phillip Druillet's "Lone Sloane") or role playing games (like Burzum/Necromantia tracing aDnD covers). I remember artist Dennis Dread put out a few blogposts a few years back tracing (hah) the origins of quite a few iconic pieces https://dennisdread.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... y_896.html. I've always gotten a great excitement out of seeing an iconic cover in the wild so I'd love for there to be a list where you could look that up. Plus, I think credit is due where it is due of course, like who cares for something like the Sodom cover but the fact that somebody charged money and took credit for the "drawing" on "Power From Hell" or "Hell Awaits" is pretty lame!
Ideally this should be something like the gorgeous "features" of The Corroseum but with my limited time and coding skills I'll probably settle for a RYM-list hah.
Do you have an example of this? Or is there a specific cover you have a hunch is "borrowed"? Put up a bounty! Me I'm searching for the origins of the goddamn Amebix axeman...
...so close...
...still not enough...
Until finally, Conan #30 "The Devil Beasts of Nergal" illustrated by James Buscema:
BINGO! Tom you forgot the Sword sheath!
This made me want to set up some sort of list or index of the origins of album artwork "borrowed" from comics (Living Death's Vengeance From Hell/Worlds Neuroses are of course traced from Phillip Druillet's "Lone Sloane") or role playing games (like Burzum/Necromantia tracing aDnD covers). I remember artist Dennis Dread put out a few blogposts a few years back tracing (hah) the origins of quite a few iconic pieces https://dennisdread.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... y_896.html. I've always gotten a great excitement out of seeing an iconic cover in the wild so I'd love for there to be a list where you could look that up. Plus, I think credit is due where it is due of course, like who cares for something like the Sodom cover but the fact that somebody charged money and took credit for the "drawing" on "Power From Hell" or "Hell Awaits" is pretty lame!
Ideally this should be something like the gorgeous "features" of The Corroseum but with my limited time and coding skills I'll probably settle for a RYM-list hah.
Do you have an example of this? Or is there a specific cover you have a hunch is "borrowed"? Put up a bounty! Me I'm searching for the origins of the goddamn Amebix axeman...
I'm pretty sure Garry Sharpe-Young who did most of the later Savage artwork got a lot of his designs from the pages of 2000AD etc. Speaking of 2000AD I read through a bunch trying to find other examples: 
From Nemesis the Warlock.
