STORMBRINGER (1977)
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"

I remember trying to get in the mood of painting for the last time the albino sorcerer king, Elric. I took a clothes rail out of a closet for my sword and ran around outside slashing at weeds and lunging at the breeze. 1/5

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I began to feel quite majestic and imagined myself atop the ruins of the end of the world.

When I slipped into the pose that captured the feeling of the whole story, I knew that this sense of “freezing of action" was too important to lose... 2/5

...so instead of setting up the pose for my camera and possibly losing its freshness, I rushed into my studio and drew it from memory.

This is probably my most famous painting of Michael Moorcock's legendary anti-hero Elric of Melnibone. 3/5

Whenever I see it, I can't help smiling, remembering when Donald Wollheim told me that "green covers never sell books."

Of course, Don took a chance and used it for the cover. The rest, as they say, is history. 4/5