Risque Stories, No.2
- RISQUE STORIES No.2 - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on a 11 x 14 size coquille board.
Before I put this drawing on my website I added the red color with my computer. The drawing includes all the lettering. Between 1976 and 1980 I did a lot of cover drawings for editor-publisher, Robert Price's fanzines. Most of the stories in those issues were written during the 1930s and 1940s. Although some of them were labeled as "risque" they would hardly be considered so by today's low moral standards. I don't think we have any, any more . . .
It was fun drawing all those fanzine covers, and the payment that I received for them was more than I received from some of the professional magazines like, Amazing Stories, and Fantastic Stories.
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I often found myself facing new challenges as an illustrator, and when some doubts entered my mind about whether I should do them or not, I went and re-read these lines from Edgar Guest's poem;
"The things that haven't been done before
May be things worth doing today;
Are you of the flock that follows, or
Are you one that shall lead the way?
Are you one of the timid souls that quail
At the jeers of a doubting crew,
Or dare you, whether you win or fail,
Strike out for a goal that's new?"
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