Almuric 1
- ALMURIC 1 - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in my art folio, "Almuric," based on the novel by Robert E. Howard.
This story originally appeared in the pulp magazine, "Weird Tales" as a three part serial starting in May, 1939. In 1975 Donald Grant published it in hardcover. It has since been reprinted in paperback editions.
When you are young and show a little talent at something, it's important that someone comes along to encourage you. When I was a little boy I enjoyed drawing pictures, I had this desire to use my own right hand to try to draw the wonderful characters I saw in the newspaper comics section. They were drawn by talented cartoonists like Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Burne Hogarth, and others. I didn't know their names, but I sure knew what they did; they drew Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, and Tarzan, and it was my secret pleasure and pride, that even though I was just a little kid, I was able to draw them almost as good as those master illustrators.
I remember only one person who saw my drawings when I was young and encouraged me. Her name was Mrs. Sheridan, she lived with her husband and son a few houses down the block from where I lived. Many evenings I sat at her kitchen table with her son Bobby, who also liked to draw. Mrs. Sheridan always had paper and pencils ready for both of us, and while Bobby drew Batman and Superman, I drew Flash Gordon and Dale, or we drew some other comics characters. I can still see her coming behind her son and saying, "Oh, that's really good Bobby! Your Batman is better that the one in the comic book!" And when she put her hand on my shoulder and looked at my drawing she would say something like, "You kids are really getting good! Keep it up!"
I wish that somewhere later in time, I had thanked her.
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