The Borisography: G

To me, this looks like it might have been intended for a CD cover which makes me wonder whether it might be an unused painting for Alex Moulton's album Exodus.

Painting undated.

The painting is not dated but a jigsaw of the artwork gives the copyright year as 1979.

Goulart was a very prolific writer using his own name and a number of pseudonyms. He is also known to have ghost-written some of the Doc Savage stories (as Kenneth Robeson) and William Shatner's Tek novels.

To me, this looks like it might have been intended for a CD cover which makes me wonder whether it might be an unused painting for Alex Moulton's album Exodus.

Eastwood had stipulated a design similar to Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom (right) but the final painting was never commissioned. Apparently none of the artwork received met with Eastwood's approval and in the end he commissioned a piece from Frazetta. In his book Icon, Frazetta says that Eastwood was charged considerably more than the going rate for the commission… he then told him that this sum was only for the reproduction rights and charged even more for the painting itself!

Painting is undated but according to B1 it was painted in 1978.

Genesis first appeared in X-Force #1 in 1991. Like many superhero characters, his backstory is so complicated that I don't feel inclined to add any more information.

It appears in the first Boris trading card set as Genie and in Fantasy Art Techniques as Iron Warrior.

Painted 1977.

Curiously, whilst in my copy of the calendar the painting is clearly signed and dated 2012, the image that I downloaded from the internet is clearly dated 2011! The original painting was dated 2007.

Over the years there have been several characters bearing the name Ghost Rider. I guess that this painting is based on the second superhero character of the name as he was the current user of the title at the time of painting (though he has since been superseded.)

You may see the original version here.

Contrary to appearances, the book is not a western but, at that time, a contemporary tale of love (of course,) the exploitation of women in Hollywood, drugs, and bootlegging – a combination I did not expect to find in a Burroughs book.

As with all the Ace Books/Ballantine Books reissues of the Burroughs' stories, the artwork is undated but it would have been produced in 1975 or 1976.

The models include Boris' own children Dorian and Maya (I'm guessing the lefthand figures of the standing and seated children respectively.)

Painted 1977.

Painting is undated but FABV gives the year as 1976.

The painting's appearance as a medieval, illuminated, manuscript is derived from the book's story which is told as a first person narrative by an unnamed catholic priest. The author, in addition to being a noted academic and prolific writer. was also a catholic priest so the presumption is that he is the narrator of the story.

Greek Mythology: Ladon was the hundred-headed serpent, one of the monstrous offspring of Typhon and Echidna; the Hesperides were the daughters of Atlas by Pleione or possibly Hesperis, or maybe it was Nix and Erebus (sorry, the legends are inconsistent.) Together they guarded the tree of the Golden Apples given by Gaia to Hera as a wedding present.

The female figure appears to have been modelled by Julie Bell.

Undated but apparently painted in 1978.

The intention was to show Good and Evil fighting, something that is not really obvious from the drawing! I'm not familiar with any project using this artwork so perhaps it didn't proceed any further.

Greek Mythology: In this image, we see Perseus about to capture Medusa's head. Boris does not portray her shock of snakes which served her as hair.

The general format of Ladies. is that each story has one painting and two drawings - this is the first of those drawings. See above for the painting.

Of the five paintings he did for this five book set, this is the only one that Boris actually dated.

The image I have doesn't show the various elements clearly enough to discern exactly what is going on but, to my mind the, two rabbits on the right sum up the show pretty accurately…

See the 2006 trading card page for details of all the paintings by Boris, and Julie, for this client.

Probably painted in 2005 or 2006.

The painting is undated but the poster gives the copyright year as 1976.

You might like to compare this with the similar painting Condor-Chuqui from 1992.

^* Since confirmed as being the case.

When I saw the following painting I thought that this must be the preliminary artwork for that painting. However, this drawing was produced by Boris and Julie and, because of differences in the design, have come to the conclusion that it is an original drawing which either Boris, or the commissioner(s,) had decided to have produced as a painting.

Julie says that the models, apart from the lion, are (Dr) Timaree Schmit and Darius Dar Khan who you may also know from the Game of Thrones TV series.

The same two models also appear in the similarly themed Junglescape so perhaps they all form part of the same commission.

Painted 1976.

The trading card displays a mirror image of the lower half of the cover. It explains that the upper half is lost and that this is a wrap-around cover. In fact, if it wraps around at all, it is only as far as the spine because the back shows a duplicate of the front, lower image.