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---------------------------------------------------------------------SHANGRI-LA PAGE 9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- stand there. At least, his illustrations are more in keeping with those older and "queerer" type of stories. And, if Finlay gets a thin time, I can't see many breaks coming for Hannes Bok unless he changes his style. His work is the nearest to Epsteinian art I have yet seen in magazine form. It may be a controversial point, but my reaction to Epsteinian art is that it is putrid. I'll hand it to Editor Pohl for obtaining Bok for interior work --- in these days of intense competition it is a good puff for a magazine to get hold of someone in the public eye. And Bok certainly is in the public eye at the moment, having been raved about from the Pacific to the Atlantic -- by the fans. But I still don't think Hannes will make the grade unless he changes his style. There isn't room for two weird illustrators relying solely upon incongruity.... Of the various "staff artists" used by the various other publishing concerns, I think the least said the better, They haven't the faintest idea of what is needed, and never will have. Despite the violent outcry concerning this article -- and I expect some of the Institutionists to squawk to high Heaven -- there will probably be one factor they will completely overlook. That is, that if the very foundations of science fiction literature hadn't changed by now, it would have been as extinct as it was before 1926. It could not have possibly dragged along in the rut it was in at the 1937 period. It had to change or die! And if the literature made the grade, why not the new artists? The sooner the Institutionists recognize this and stop maudling about their past idols, the sooner there will be more space in the Readers' Columns for worthwhile subjects. ************** [IMAGE] SCORPIO ARTHER LOUIS JOQUEL II SHANGRI LA
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---------------------------------------------------------------------SHANGRI-LA PAGE 9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- stand there. At least, his illustrations are more in keeping with those older and "queerer" type of stories. And, if Finlay gets a thin time, I can't see many breaks coming for Hannes Bok unless he changes his style. His work is the nearest to Epsteinian art I have yet seen in magazine form. It may be a controversial point, but my reaction to Epsteinian art is that it is putrid. I'll hand it to Editor Pohl for obtaining Bok for interior work --- in these days of intense competition it is a good puff for a magazine to get hold of someone in the public eye. And Bok certainly is in the public eye at the moment, having been raved about from the Pacific to the Atlantic -- by the fans. But I still don't think Hannes will make the grade unless he changes his style. There isn't room for two weird illustrators relying solely upon incongruity.... Of the various "staff artists" used by the various other publishing concerns, I think the least said the better, They haven't the faintest idea of what is needed, and never will have. Despite the violent outcry concerning this article -- and I expect some of the Institutionists to squawk to high Heaven -- there will probably be one factor they will completely overlook. That is, that if the very foundations of science fiction literature hadn't changed by now, it would have been as extinct as it was before 1926. It could not have possibly dragged along in the rut it was in at the 1937 period. It had to change or die! And if the literature made the grade, why not the new artists? The sooner the Institutionists recognize this and stop maudling about their past idols, the sooner there will be more space in the Readers' Columns for worthwhile subjects. ************** [IMAGE] SCORPIO ARTHER LOUIS JOQUEL II SHANGRI LA
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