Podwil, Jerome - Lotus Vellum, The - 1970 (Ace 49545)

Podwil, Jerome - Lotus Vellum, The - 1970 (Ace 49545)BOARD: 14 x 21 1 8IMAGE: 11 x 17 7 8Gouache? on Vellum on 1 16" Board. As you can see, there are a couple of small areas of paint loss. Otherwise it's in great condition. This is the original painting published as the cover to the vintage Gothic paperback novel The Lotus Vellum, written by Charlotte Hunt in 1970. Podwil is known for some lovely Science Fiction cover art, but he did quite a few Gothic covers, often drawing the women with impossibly

I've decided to make this 9 page sequence available to another fan of The Stand

This page features several Council members amidst a bevy of beautifully illustrated backgrounds

spurting bits of lava from his mouth

as they decide to rebel and take the fight to Choshin's army

we get the Yin and the Yang

Beautiful credits page featuring The Divine Wolf and the lovely Patience

this is such a cool scene

A fantastic splash page featuring the newly formed Justice Society of Earth

All the images on the monitors are uninked pencils and they look fantastic in person

in order to make Metallo a very interesting offer

With this incredible and instantly iconic looking image

is that despite it having been used on a book that fits into the "sleaze" genre of the 1960's sexual revolution