Emmanuel - where is the artist?

[sckeener]

Dragon Magazine 55 pg 11 - art question

Does anyone know who did the art for this picture?


I was looking up some old information and ran into this white dwarf ad and loved the art. Thought I might try to see if they artist did anything else.

 

[Vanye]

It looks like the artists name is cut off, just under the imps' bowl

 

[Matafuego]

The signature says Emmanuel '40
At least the "Emmanuel" i'm sure of... the '40 might be another number.

Edit:

Might be HIM:

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=681

 

[sckeener]

The signature says Emmanuel '40
At least the "Emmanuel" i'm sure of... the '40 might be another number.

Edit:

Might be HIM:

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=681

I think you are correct. Thanks. I think that 40 might be an 80. The Dragon issue is from Nov '81.

 

[Garnfellow]

Same artist who did the cover of the original Fiend Folio.

 

[BOZ]

exactly. Gith Yankee himself!

 

[sckeener]

Anyone know what happened to Emmanuel?

It is interesting to me that it was him. In that issue I was reading about Ed Greenwood's dislike of the Fiend Folio. I was suprised that there was such a strong negative reaction to that book. I loved it.

Now with my search for Emmanuel, I bumble into more topics about the merits of the Fiend Folio. I was surprised that Gary got into the mix (at least according to the wiki.

In fairness to Ed in that issue of Dragon, he did pick the winners of the book...the monsters most remembered (except for the Bullywug)...

 

[el-remmen]

The Fiend Folio (1E) is my favorite monster book of all time.

 

[Akrasia]

The Fiend Folio (1E) is my favorite monster book of all time.

It is one of my favourites as well. The hostility towards it has always puzzled me.

 

[sckeener]

It is one of my favourites as well. The hostility towards it has always puzzled me.

One of Ed Greenwood's arguements at the time is a similar complaint that we hear today...do we really need so many monsters? Ed alluded to designers at the time thinking that there we enough undead and that anything more would just be variations on a theme.

Personally I think more the better. I am going to have to pick and choose for my world anyway so I might as well have a huge list to choose from.