Dragoman Frontispiece
- DRAGOMAN FRONTISPIECE - A color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper.
This drawing is one of 7 story illustrations I did for a forthcoming book titled, "The Adventures of Dragoman," by Otis Adelbert Kline. It would have been the frontispiece. The book was never published.
Otis Adelbert Kline wrote several novels considered to be poor imitations of the science-fantasy novels that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote, most of which took place on Mars, Venus, Inside the Earth, and on the Moon.
Kline wrote two Mars books, three Venus books, and one that takes place on the Moon. All these stories are similar to the Burroughs books; they feature pure-hearted Earthmen mysteriously appearing on Mars (or Venus) brandishing a sword and fighting for the love of a pure-hearted woman who is always being sought after by terrible villains and montrous alien beasts.
Burroughs started it all in 1912 when he created a whole new branch of literature known as, "The Scientific Romance". The All-Story Magazine published his novel, "Under the Moons of Mars", and regardless of the faults pointed out by his critics, nobody has done it better. His historic science- fantasy saga begins in 1866 with a former Civil War confederate veteran, John Carter propecting for gold in Arizona. Just as he discovers a rich vein of gold he is attacked by Apaches. To evade them he hides in a sacred cave and mysteriously finds himself on Mars! And that is when and where the new era of the "Scientific Romance" began.
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