The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 9)

Pulpy goodness from Black Dog Books, 2008. 

A Black Dog classic - from 2000. 

From Crippen & Landru, 2002.  (Thx to R. Robinson)

Parts 1 thru 8 of The Art of TOM ROBERTS are HERE.
Next week: Nooses galore.

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 8)

This is one of favorite TR covers, from 2006. The mystery. The menace. The subtlety. Damn.

Here's a nice action scene from the Black Dog chapbook days of 2000. And this one had a bonus - another illo on the back.

Here's another in the Crippen & Landru Lost Classics series, from 2010. The nurse looks suspiciously like the same lady who posed for the bar wench on the Sabatini book The Evidence of the Sword (HERE). That was Tom's wife.

Once again, I must pay tribute to the scanning skills of Mr. Richard Robinson.
More Roberts art next week.
Parts 1 thru 7 are HERE.

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 7)

Here's Tom's salute to EQMM's distinguished book reviewers. From left to right we have John Dickson Carr, Allen J. Hubin, Anthony Boucher and Jon L. Breen, with conductor Howard Haycraft. 

This insignia appears on Haycraft's hat. It has to mean something. Can anyone tell me what?

You'll no doubt recognize this painting from Part 5 of our series. It first appeared on Crippen & Landru's Hugh B. Cave collection Long Live the Dead.

My undying gratitude goes out to EQMM (and AHMM) Senior Assistant Editor Jackie Sherbow for providing these covers. Thanks, too, to Ann Littlewood, for her technical assistance.

More wonders from the mind and hand of Mr. Roberts next week. To see what has gone before, click HERE.

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 6)

Our tribute to Mr. Roberts rolls on, with this Crippen & Landru cover from 2007. This time all three scans come to us courtesy of the Richard Robinson University Library. 

This one's from Black Dog's Olden Days of 2002.

And Tom paints like an Egyptian for this Black Dog cover from 2011.

CORRECTION: In case you missed our late update to last week's post, The Raygun Revival cover credited to "Tom Roberts" turned out to be by a whole 'nother Tom Roberts, about whom this Tom and I know nothing. Sheesh, how embarassing. 

More artistic wonders next week.

See our growing gallery of Tom's work (and the other Tom's) HERE. 

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 5)

Here's a cool Crippen & Landru cover from way back in 2000. The painting was later repurposed for EQMM. We'll see that some Sunday soon.

Long Live the Dead appears courtesy of the Richard Robinson Dining Room Library.

ALERT! ALERT! Just got word that the Raygun cover above is NOT by Tom Roberts. At least, not the same Tom Roberts we're talking about here. An imposter? A wannabe? A typo? I don't know, and neither does the real Tom. Sorry for misinfo.

This 2007 Black Dog Book reminds me of Baumhofer's great Doc Savage covers.

See Parts 1 thru 4 HERE. 

Continued next Sunday!

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 4)

A Crippen & Landru book from 2005. I'm curious to know who these faces belong to. (Scan courtesy of the Richard Robinson Collection)

What's the story on this cool Green Lantern painting? I wish I knew. Some guy is asking $450 for it on eBay.

A Black Dog cover from 2012. It's probably my imagination, but these guys remind me of Ham Brooks and Monk Mayfair.

More Tom art next Sunday. 

See the first three Parts HERE.

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 3)

A fine Crippen & Landru cover from 2002. My thanks to Richard (Tip the Wink) Robinson for the scan.

Here's Jo Gar. If this painting has any surprises hidden in the details, I failed to discover them. 

From the Olden Days of Black Dog Books. 2000. 

A more recent Black Dog collection, from 2011, featuring the author of the Doan & Carstairs series (discussed HERE).

Parts 1 and 2 are HERE. Part 4 next Sunday!

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 2)

Marksman, published by Crippen & Landru back in 2002, appears this week thanks to last week's comment by John Hocking. Quite coincidentally, it was George Kelley's Forgotten Book on Friday. His comments are HERE. 

Marksman features five Joe Puma adventures (hence the name on the door) and four non-series stories.

Here's an image of Joe himself. 

Here's the book on the table. Tsk. That glass is going to leave a ring.

The newspaper headline refers to La Paloma, the ship that brought the Maltese Falcon to San Francicso. The photograph appears to show the ship burning.

And the pulp in the trashcan is the February 1943 issue of Private Detective Stories. 

I had planned to feature three of Tom's paintings this week, but this one provided enough cool suprises to stand on its own. More coming next Sunday, and for quite a few Sundays to come!

Last week's gallery is HERE.

(Thanks to Mr. Richard Robinson for the Marksman cover scan)

The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 1)

Here's one of eight covers (that I know of) that Tom did for Crippen & Landru. This book was published in 2006.

This painting was used for three different Battered Silicon Dispatch Box books, all published in 2011: Victorian Holmes by Michael Duke, Introducing Sherlock Holmes by William Hyder and Thinking Outside the Tin-Dispatch Box by William R. Cochran.

And here's one from Tom's own Black Dog Books, published in 2010. More great covers next Sunday!