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08:48 am
7/2/09

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ratmmjess
...too many artist/character pairings less suited for each other than Frank Frazetta and Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, and yet this works:

Found by Paul di Filippo over at The Inferior 4.

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On July 2nd, 2009 04:12 pm (UTC), [info]nitasee commented:
Wow. Just wow. Awesome in it's inappropriateness. Not to mention 9 kinds of pollically incorrect.
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On July 2nd, 2009 04:15 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
That's the Flashman series in a nutshell. Awesomely inappropriate, and yet wonderfully entertaining at the same time.
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On July 2nd, 2009 04:22 pm (UTC), [info]nitasee replied:
Oh, I understand that about the Flashman series. But that artwork...it just wrong. So wrong. Even for Flashman.
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On July 2nd, 2009 04:31 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
And yet it works, doesn't it? Flashman as he'd like to be seen, maybe?
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On July 2nd, 2009 05:59 pm (UTC), [info]full_metal_ox replied:
A bit like the Calvin-and-Hobbes effect in the infamous South Park Ninja episode, wherein the boys' ninja fantasy sequences are rendered in the style of a martial-arts anime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:801_image_04.jpg

(And I read Flashman at fourteen, with only the inkling of its literary antecedents that I'd gleaned from Philip Jose Farmer--and, even then, was keenly aware of its entertaining wrongth--which, when one is fourteen, is ipso facto a selling point.)

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On July 2nd, 2009 06:24 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
Ha, yes!
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On July 2nd, 2009 04:39 pm (UTC), [info]sboydtaylor commented:
I'd never heard of Flashman before. Makes me wonder if there's some cross-pollinating of ideas with Lord Flashheart from Black Adder 2 and 3.
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On July 2nd, 2009 04:40 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
I'm sure that Flashy was an influence on Flashheart.

The Flashman books are woefully incorrect but a huge amount of fun.

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On July 2nd, 2009 05:02 pm (UTC), [info]dvandom replied:
One of the more important things to remember about Flashman is that there's a layer of metawriting going on. They were written much later than they claim in-story to have been written, so it's a pastiche or even parody of an older style. :)
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On July 2nd, 2009 05:08 pm (UTC), [info]waiwode commented:
In the words of Lord Cardigan: "Haw haw! Capitew painting, old fewwow!"

Doug.

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On July 2nd, 2009 05:57 pm (UTC), [info]caprine commented:
My brain hurts.
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On July 2nd, 2009 06:25 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
Well, sure--whose doesn't? I know mine does!

That's why I drink all the time.

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On July 2nd, 2009 06:27 pm (UTC), [info]barryreese replied:
Frazetta's art works on any damned thing.

Edited at 2009-07-02 06:28 pm (UTC)
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On July 2nd, 2009 06:59 pm (UTC), [info]captainweasel commented:
have you seen the Meat card frazetta challenge? It seems Frazetta works even in backyards and balloon animals...
http://www.meatcards.com/challenge/
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On July 2nd, 2009 09:04 pm (UTC), [info]casaubon commented:
IIRC the naked woman was chucked off the back of a sledge to distract some knout-wielding Cossacks, not draped over a horse!
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On July 2nd, 2009 09:10 pm (UTC), [info]ysidro commented:
Oh, that's just AWESOME!
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On July 2nd, 2009 11:00 pm (UTC), [info]ffutures commented:
Holy crap! That poor horse!
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On July 3rd, 2009 02:34 am (UTC), [info]judaskincaid commented:
For sheer pulp awesome, few will ever outdo Frazetta in artwork. Many have come close, but none quite manage to get the equal amounts of violence, wrongness, and near-pornography that exemplifies pulp like him. May his brushes never lose their bristles.
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On July 3rd, 2009 03:01 am (UTC), [info]dianora2 commented:
Gee, I am so shocked this bears the Playboy seal of approval.
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On July 3rd, 2009 03:23 am (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
I don't think Frazetta was capable of doing something that didn't deserve (in every sense of the word) the Playboy seal of approval.
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On July 3rd, 2009 10:38 am (UTC), [info]nsingman commented:
Perhaps I've read too many issues of Heavy Metal, but she seems rather modestly proportioned for a Frazetta girl.
:-)
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On July 3rd, 2009 11:39 am (UTC), [info]crowleycrow replied:
What?! O I see, you jest... Actually in this reproduction she seems to have a major celluleet problem.
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On July 3rd, 2009 12:59 pm (UTC), [info]drzero commented:
Wow, 20-odd comments and I'm the only person who looked at that and thought "Flashman of Gor"?
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On July 3rd, 2009 02:05 pm (UTC), [info]hooper_x commented:
Nothing about this cover makes sense in context with any of the other stuff on this cover - the title is in the fucking Bad News Bears font, there's a Frazetta image of a cavalry officer spanking a girl while his shetland pony falls over from the weight, and then there's a sunburst talking about how it's a playboy award winner, which you imagine should be on, you know, Heaving Hooters of Heaven, Volume 22.

And then there's the tease. THE ALL TIME ACE OF BOUDOIR OLYMPICS IS BACK IN ACTION... WITH A GIRL AND A PONY!

Awesome.

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On July 3rd, 2009 03:48 pm (UTC), [info]womzilla commented:
Carl Barks and William Faulkner.

(I actually came up with that idea in honor of M. Thomas Inge, when he was scholar guest of honor at the Conference on the Fantastic a few years ago.)

But Fraser and Frazetta has the advantage of actually having happened.

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On July 3rd, 2009 03:51 pm (UTC), [info]ratmmjess replied:
A Carl Barks As I Lay Dying...wow.

I'd actually like to read that.

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On July 3rd, 2009 07:54 pm (UTC), [info]full_metal_ox replied:
For what it might be worth, Dr. Hermes is on record as suggesting the odd couple of Steve Ditko and the Furry Freak Brothers: http://dr-hermes.livejournal.com/137352.html
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On July 3rd, 2009 10:07 pm (UTC), [info]pecunium commented:
Have you read "MacAuslan" by Fraser?

Completely different, and perfect.

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On July 5th, 2009 11:50 pm (UTC), [info]cpt_barcode commented:
You had me at Flashman, but this is every kind of awesome.
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On October 22nd, 2009 11:57 am (UTC), [info]guest_informant commented:
A rhyming pic of sorts to Rowena's cover art for Colin Greenland's Harm's Way (US paperback):

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