EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 21 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

80 anatomy, but animal as well, made for some truly memorable imagery that blended the visceral with the fantastic. Also, his painting style of defining clearly the main figures and mainly suggesting the background, would prove immensely popular among later illustrators of the fantasy genre. Although in his first book, St. John was looking for a graphic style (mostly inspired by the illustrators from the nineteenth century), when he was doing the covers for the Burroughs books we can say he was already a fully-fledged illustrator, whose painted covers drew the readers into buying the books. His black and white drawings, sometimes rendered in cross-hatching with pen and ink, and other times in wash tones, would influence so many comic book artists that to list them all would take a full page. Already in his seventies by the 1950s he taught Life Class and Illustration at the American Academy of Art, until his death in 1957. l l We are greatly indebted to the Korshak Collection for assisting us with several of the images for this feature: www.korshakcollection.com We would also like to thank Heritage Auctions for allowing us to reproduce additional images for this feature—more can be seen at: www.HA.com The profundity of the impact that J. Allen St. John’s illustrations for Tarzan made upon successive generations of fantasy artists cannot be overstated. His artistic legacy provided a rich and deep vein of inspiration which continues to inform and inspire artists to this day. ABOVE: ‘Pellucidar’. ABOVE TOP: ‘Tarzan and the Golden Lion’. RIGHT: Interior art for ‘Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle’ . Imaged by Heritage Auctions, HA.com