Free Mars Resource For Your Old School Science Fantasy Campaign - Barsoom! From Heavy Metal Magazine By Richard A Lupoff

 

  This is not the article's artwork but its a favorite classic Amazing stories cover featuring one of my
favorite Burroughs stories

Grab It Over
HERE

With the Warriors of the Red Planet retroclone due any day now I need a fast way to reintroduce Barsoom to a few jaded old school friends. Some of these folks had never read the Edgar Rice Burroughs classics of Barsoom!  I didn't want to get into a whole lot of hassle but how to give the highlights and put my players in the spirit of the books?
Heavy Metal Magazine had exactly what I needed with this article about Edgar Rice Burroughs and Barsoom. All of the highlights are touched on and there's some excellent old school artwork by Clyde Caldwell in the article as well.
According to the Internet Archive :
Article about author Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in September 1982 issue of Heavy Metal magazine. Illustrated by Clyde Caldwell.
 All of the quick highlights of Barsoom are touched on and the artwork covers most of the major characters, creatures, and Martian races. All in all its not a bad introduction to ERB's Barsoomian adventures and it's a quick read as well. So I thought I'd share with you folks. 
This post is for entertainment and educational  purposes only and no violation of the author nor the artist's trade marks or copy rights is being implied here.
Thank you. 

Free Mars Resource For Your Old School Science Fantasy Campaign - Barsoom! From Heavy Metal Magazine By Richard A Lupoff

  This is not the article's artwork but its a favorite
classic Amazing stories cover featuring one of my
favorite Burroughs stories

Grab It Over
HERE

With the Warriors of the Red Planet retroclone due any day now I need a fast way to reintroduce Barsoom to a few jaded old school friends. Some of these folks had never read the Edgar Rice Burroughs classics of Barsoom!  I didn't want to get into a whole lot of hassle but how to give the highlights and put my players in the spirit of the books?
Heavy Metal Magazine had exactly what I needed with this article about Edgar Rice Burroughs and Barsoom. All of the highlights are touched on and there's some excellent old school artwork by Clyde Caldwell in the article as well.
According to the Internet Archive :
Article about author Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in September 1982 issue of Heavy Metal magazine. Illustrated by Clyde Caldwell.
 All of the quick highlights of Barsoom are touched on and the artwork covers most of the major characters, creatures, and Martian races. All in all its not a bad introduction to ERB's Barsoomian adventures and it's a quick read as well. So I thought I'd share with you folks. 
This post is for entertainment and educational  purposes only and no violation of the author nor the artist's trade marks or copy rights is being implied here.
Thank you. 

The Loan Sloane Graphic Novel Series By Philippe Druillet For Your Old School Campaigns

When I was a about four,maybe five years old I had a French baby sister way up in Hudson New York state probably about 1974 or '75. She used to read to me from a copy of  Le Mystère des Abîmes ("The Mystery of the Abyss"), 1966 and her copy of Le Trone du Dieu Noir ("The Throne of the Black God"), Pilote magazine #538, 1970 into English. I listened to tales of black gods, goddesses, twisted horrors beyond imagination, and other-dimensional entities all against the mind twisting art work of the French cartoonist Philippe Druillet.And its brilliant beyond cosmic horror and weirdness! I love this graphic series!
According to wiki:
Lone Sloane first appeared in Druillet's own debut, Mystère des Abîmes, published in 1966. Other stories were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote from February 1970 to April 1971. The series was subsequently revamped by the author for Metal Hurlant magazine.



Loan Sloane is everything I love about science fantasy in one graphic novel series by a French master of the genre. Twisting towers of unbelievable concepts against pure cosmic acid trip images of a space hero who is one part space rogue and freebooter with strange powers.


No Dr. Strange waffling here with the Ancient One and Clea, no we get a straight on needle of cosmic awesomeness straight to the heart of our hero! None of the political correctness of today's comics but the high concept, high times of a space adventure whose pursued by a horrible cosmic empire that is merely the pawn of something far worse. According to wiki:
Set 800 years after a catastrophic event called the "Great Fear" the stories feature Lone Sloane, who is caught by an entity called He Who Seeks, after his space ship is destroyed. He is thrown into a different dimension, where he becomes a space rogue and freebooter with strange powers. He finds himself caught in an inter-galactic struggle between space pirates, gigantic robots, dark gods and other-dimensional entities.


The characters here are flawed and well rounded, the plots cosmic, the artwork explosive and expansive and the work is a wonderful cosmic journey that dovetails beautifully into the OSR cosmic science fantasy manifesto of works like LofP's Carcosa, Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea, and Fantastic Heroes and Witchery. Do yourselves a favor if you haven't seen this material! Go grab it.

Free Mars Resource For Your Old School Science Fantasy Campaign - Barsoom! From Heavy Metal Magazine By Richard A Lupoff

  This is not the article's artwork but its a favorite classic Amazing stories cover featuring one of my
favorite Burroughs stories

Grab It Over
HERE

With the Warriors of the Red Planet retroclone due any day now I need a fast way to reintroduce Barsoom to a few jaded old school friends. Some of these folks had never read the Edgar Rice Burroughs classics of Barsoom!  I didn't want to get into a whole lot of hassle but how to give the highlights and put my players in the spirit of the books?
Heavy Metal Magazine had exactly what I needed with this article about Edgar Rice Burroughs and Barsoom. All of the highlights are touched on and there's some excellent old school artwork by Clyde Caldwell in the article as well.
According to the Internet Archive :
Article about author Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in September 1982 issue of Heavy Metal magazine. Illustrated by Clyde Caldwell.
 All of the quick highlights of Barsoom are touched on and the artwork covers most of the major characters, creatures, and Martian races. All in all its not a bad introduction to ERB's Barsoomian adventures and it's a quick read as well. So I thought I'd share with you folks. 
This post is for entertainment and educational  purposes only and no violation of the author nor the artist's trade marks or copy rights is being implied here.
Thank you. 

Old School Science Fiction Influences - Alien and The Heavy Metal Alien Graphic Novel

Recently I've been re watching the original 1979 classic Alien and the 1985 Aliens sequel. The other half recently came back from the U.K. and brought me a treasure. The Heavy Metal magazine version of the first Alien movie. 

This film was a huge influence back in 1979 when I was a kid. I ate up everything about the movie including seeing it when I was a kid at a drive in Ct. and then New York State. I even knew a kid who had one of the Kenner action figures. 

Fast forward when I started collecting comic books and I find out that there's a graphic novel from Walter Simonson and Archie Goodwin from the folks who were doing Heavy Metal Magazine.
I got my hands on it and well it was interesting more then slightly cool.

Well my copy bit the dust back in the days of the 90's and well my better half has an instinct when it comes to knowing what I want. She found me a copy that her friend had and she brought it over. Since she's just as interested in the film as I'm she included it for presents.
 

Want to see more from this graphic novel that made the New York Best Seller's list?
Well I stumbled onto this video on You Tube.

I've used this movie numerous times for old school adventures in retroclones, new school games, and many other campaigns. The graphic novel holds up quite well and has a few elements that the film really didn't touch on. 

The First Time I actually saw the Alien in an  OD&D Style game book was the 'Neila' from 1979's Booty and The Beasts from Fantasy Art Enterprises by Erol Otus.