{"id":176,"date":"2009-06-05T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/06\/05\/the-art-of-michael-moorcocks-elric\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:46:00","slug":"the-art-of-michael-moorcocks-elric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/06\/05\/the-art-of-michael-moorcocks-elric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Michael Moorcock&#8217;s ELRIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ELRICarts1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ELRICarts1.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(Top left: Art by Michael Whelan \/ Top right: Art by P. Craig Russell \/ Bottom left: Art by Kent Williams \/ Bottom right: Art by Walt Simonson)<\/span>\n<p>Sounds cool, doesn\u2019t it? Is this a lush, hardcover art book that you\u2019re missing? No, it\u2019s not missing. It doesn\u2019t exist. As far as I know, no publisher has seriously approached Mike Moorcock about it. But wouldn\u2019t it be an <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">amazing<\/span> art book if it <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">did<\/span>? Think about the greats that have illustrated Elric over the years\u2026. Michael Whelan, Yoshitaka Amano, Brom, Walt Simonson, P. Craig Russell, and Robert Gould, just to name a few of the legions of artists in Elric art history. And speaking of legions, think about the armies of Moorcock fans worldwide. What Moorcock fan wouldn\u2019t covet a book like this? Heck, what fantasy art fan wouldn\u2019t? Sounds to me like a smash hit waiting to happen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Top left: Art by Michael Whelan \/ Top right: Art by P. Craig Russell \/ Bottom left: Art by Kent Williams \/ Bottom right: Art by Walt Simonson) Sounds cool, doesn\u2019t it? Is this a lush, hardcover art book that you\u2019re missing? No, it\u2019s not missing. It doesn\u2019t exist. As far as I know, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ELRICarts1.jpg?fit=504%2C746","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-2Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}