It's the artist Ken Kelly's birthday and when I did a tweet and facebook post about it,
I realized - you know what? I am positive that Ken Kelly has done more book covers that I own than anybody else - and that's a lot considering I typically buy every Frazetta I can find. Kelly is such a work horse and has done so many Conan's and other sword and sorcery related covers that it is staggering. He has done a lot of heavy metal covers too, but I don't think I have any of those but when it comes to book covers wow -its staggering.
I just did a count in my office I have about 30+ books with Frazetta covers. And I am not counting doubles - just one individual cover per book.
But I've got 70+ Ken Kelly covers - loads of Conan and Robert E. Howard, but also some Kane, Karl Edward Wagner books like his Bran Mak Morn - Legion From the Shadows, the Robert Adams Horseclans series and John Maddox Roberts Stormlands series, and then even a variety of standalones and anthologies.
Happy Birthday Ken, and thanks for the bigger than life barbaric art!
I just did a count in my office I have about 30+ books with Frazetta covers. And I am not counting doubles - just one individual cover per book.
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