The Robert E. Howard Foundation. We are proud to announce to official nominees for this years REH Foundation Awards, honoring the top contributions from the previous year in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howards life and works. The top three nominees in each category were selected by the Legacy Circle members of the Foundation from an outstanding pool of eligible candidates and their contributions represent the best of the best. Categories with more than 3 nominees represent a tie in the nomination votingAll members of the REH Foundation including Regular FREE Members will be eligible to vote on these nominees to determine this years winners with the exception of the Black Circle which requires a Premium membership. Voting deadline is May 1. The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains on June 9. Not a member yet Click HERE to sign up The Atlantean Outstanding Achievement, Book non anthologycollectionBooks may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 5. REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible. PATRICK BURGER  On the Precipice of Fascism The Mythic and the Political in the Works of Robert E. Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' title='Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' />The winners of the 2017 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards were announced on Saturday June 10 at Howard Days. Congratulations to all and thank you for your efforts in. SIDEWAYS 1 Written by DAN DiDIO and JUSTIN JORDAN Art and cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT During the events of DARK NIGHTS METAL, high school junior Derek James. Howard and Ernst Junger Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood Publishing  Link. The Valusian Outstanding Achievement, Book anthologycollectionBooks may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 5. REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible. No eligible candidatesThe HyrkanianOutstanding Achievement, Essay PrintEssays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life andor work of REH. Short pieces, interviews, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count. MORGAN HOLMES The Wild Wild West of Robert E. Howard  Blood n Thunder 4. Link. KAREN JOAN KOHOUTEK The Outsider Scholar Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity  The Dark Man 8. Link. RICK LAI The Sinister Skelos Robert E. A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard. by Rusty Burke. Robert Ervin Howard 19061936 ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure stories. Howards Demonic Wizard  Blood n Thunder 4. Link. JEFFREY SHANKS Nameless Tribes and Races of Men Anthropological World Building in Men of the Shadows  Skelos 1 Link. The CimmerianOutstanding Achievement, Essay OnlineEssays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life andor work of REH. Short blog posts, speeches, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count. BOBBY DERIE Robert E. Howard and the Amateur Press 5 Parts  On an Underwood No. Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' title='Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' />Includes comic previews, collectable news and retailer services. Tonight is the twopart finale of Twin Peaks The Return, the beginning of the end of a promise that began with the words of Laura Palmer over two decades ago I. What to expect from Rebirth, Vertigo, DC Collectibles and more in December 2017, plus more of DARK NIGHTS METAL and DOOMSDAY CLOCK. Link. DIERK GUENTHER Gumshoes, Gats and Gals Robert E. Howards Detective and Crime Stories  REH Two Gun Raconteur Blog  Link. Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' title='Robert E Howard Dark Horse Comics Collection' />Shop the HRC nonprofit store where 100 of your purchase goes to HRCs committed work to ending Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender discrimination. Rare Comic Books Online Comic Book Store, shop online here for rare, vintage, and new hot comics. New at Rare Comic Books DC Universe Rebirth 2016 Preacher 1. What to expect from Rebirth, Vertigo, DC Collectibles and more in November 2017, plus more of DARK NIGHTS METAL and the start of DOOMSDAY CLOCK. WWW. ART4COMICS. COM. Welcome to the Comic Book Art Gallery. This Gallery is sorted alphabetically by artist To do a quick search for any. PATRICE LOUINET The Wright Hook or, the origin of Spear and Fang  REH Two Gun Raconteur Blog Link. The Venarium Emerging ScholarThe following candidates have recently begun making significant contributions to Howard scholarship through publications andor presentations over the past few years. Previous winners are not eligibleGUENTHER, DIERK Contributed to TGR blog presented papers at PCA, ICFA, American Literature Society of Japan National Conference, and Glenn Lord Symposium. DANIEL LOOK Contributed to TGR blog presented papers at PCA, ICFA, and Glenn Lord Symposium. TODD VICK Contributed essays to On an Underwood No. Editor of On an Underwood No. PCA and Glenn Lord Symposium. The StygianOutstanding Achievement, WebsiteEligible candidates are limited to internet sites with substantive static content and material that is primarily devoted to scholarship on the life and works of Robert E. Howard. Websites must have been updated with new content at least once in the previous calendar year. Non static social media like Facebook and Twitter would not be eligible. HOWARD WORKS Bill Thom  Link. ON AN UNDERWOOD NO. Todd Vick  Link. REH TWO GUN RACONTEUR BLOG Damon Sasser  Link. The Aquilonian Outstanding Achievement, Periodical. THE DARK MAN Mark Hall  Link. REH FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER Damon Sasser  Link. The Black Lotus Outstanding Achievement, MultimediaEligible candidates have produced a multimedia or audiovisual work or series of works, such as videos, documentaries, podcasts, animation, etc. REHJOSH ADKINS, LUKE DODD, and JON LARSON The Cromcast audio podcast  Link. BEN FRIBERG Howard Days Panels videos  Link. RANDALL LOBB, MARK HUSSEY, and ISAAC ELLIOT FISHER Chasing Conan video interviews from the Riddle of Steel documentary Link. The Black RiverSpecial AchievementThe following eligible candidates have produced or contributed something special that doesnt fit into any other category scholarly presentations, biographical discoveries, etc. FRANK COFFMAN, DIERK GUENTHER, DANIEL LOOK, JONAS PRIDA, and JEFFREY SHANKS For participating in an REH paper session and panel at ICFA 2. DIERK GUENTHER For giving a presentation on REH at the Annual National Conference 2. American Literature Society of Japan in Okayama. PATRICE LOUINET For serving as adviser on the Conan board game from Monolith. The Rankin Artistic achievement in the depiction of REHs life andor workArt must have made its first public published appearance in the previous calendar year. RICHARD BERNAL Cover art for The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins, Volume 1 Link. JIM RUTH KEEGAN Artwork for The Adventures of Two Gun Bob, Various titles Link. Free Guild Wars Account Keygen Download. ADRIAN SMITH Artwork for Conan boardgame by Monolith depicting various REH characters  Link. Black Circle Award Lifetime AchievementIndividuals who have made significant and long lasting contributions to REH scholarship, publishing, or the promotion of Howards life and works. Eligible candidates must have been publicly involved in Howard related activities for a minimum of two decades. FRED BLOSSERBILLIE RUTH LOVING  posthumousDONALD A. WOLLHEIM posthumousFred Blosser is a longtime critic and commentator on the works of Robert E. Howard, beginning in 1. Glenn Lords The Howard Collector. For many fans, his essays in the back of Marvels Savage Sword of Conan were their introduction to non fiction about Howard and his stories. He has authored numerous articles, reviews, and introductions over the years, including contributions to The Howard Collector, Barbarian Scroll, The Howard Review, The Dark Man, The Man from Cross Plains, Two Gun Bob, and Anniversary A Tribute to Glenn Lord. Earlier this year he released a new ebook, Ar I Ech and the Spell of Cthulhu An Informal Guide to Howards Lovecraftian Fiction. For many years Billie Ruth Loving was the head librarian at the Cross Plains Public Library. She was one of the founding members of Project Pride and in 1. Robert E. Howard Days. With the Cross Plains Library she assisted in purchasing the Howard House, then donated it to Project Pride in order to have a museum for fans visiting Cross Plains. Over the years she served as the unofficial caretaker of the house and museum and was the primary local historian on Howard and his life. A prominent member of First Fandom in the 1. Hyborian Legion in the 1. Donald A. Wollheim  went on to become one of the 2. In the three decades between Howards death and the Conan boom of the 1. Wollheim was one of the few who kept Two Gun Bob in print, first in fanzines, then in digests and paperbacks. His REH related publications include the original publication of the Hyborian Age essay in Phantagraph 1. The Robert E. Howard Foundation Robert E. Howard Biographyby Rusty Burke. Robert Ervin Howard 1. The creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, Sailor Steve Costigan and many other memorable characters, Howard known as REH to his millions of fans, in a career that spanned barely 1. While he is widely regarded as the father of Sword and Sorcery and the creator of Conan the Barbarian, this reputation has been something of a double edged sword. It has helped keep his work in the public eye for six decades since his death, but it has also obscured the astonishing breadth of his imagination, his talent for mastering a variety of genres and his ability to weave his magic in both prose and poetry. Robert E. Howard contributed his most celebrated work to the pre eminent fantasy pulp magazine of the era, Weird Tales. However, his stories also appeared in such diverse publications as Action Stories, Argosy, Fight Stories, Oriental Stories, Spicy Adventure, Sport Story, Strange Detective and a number of others. That his stories were a consistent hit with readers of the time is not surprising, for he created thrilling, vividly realized adventures populated by colorful, larger than life characters. He was a consummate and dynamic storyteller. Even after his death publishers continued for some time to publish his stories or reprint them under other by lines. So enduring is the appeal of his work that over a half century later he continues to gain new fans, introduced to his tales through paperbacks, comics, and movies. His work has also inspired subsequent generations of fantasy writers and a loyal following that has taken to cyberspace to spread the word. Robert E. Howard was born on January 2. January 2. 4, 1. Peaster, Texas, in Parker County, just west of Fort Worth. The confusion surrounding his date of birth arises from Howard celebrating January 2. Whos Who Among North American Authors, while his record of birth in Parker County reads January 2. As his father also gave Roberts birthday as 2. January, it is probably safe to assume that is the correct date. At the time of Roberts birth, the Howards lived in Palo Pinto County, on the banks of Dark Valley Creek. His father, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, presumably moved his wife temporarily to the larger community of Peaster to allow readier access to medical care during her pregnancy. Hester Jane Ervin Howard, Roberts mother, did not enjoy robust health, to put it mildly there was a history of tuberculosis in her family and Hester Howard was sickly for much of Roberts life. Isaac Howard was a country doctor, a profession that entailed frequent lengthy absences from home, and thus he may have wished to be certain that his wife of two years would have adequate medical attention when she delivered their first, and as it transpired, only child. Isaac Howard seems to have been possessed of a combination of wanderlust and ambition that led him to frequently move his family in search of better opportunities. By the time he was eight, Robert had lived in at least seven different and widely scattered Texas towns. In 1. 91. 5, the family moved to the community of Cross Cut in Brown County, and they would live in this vicinity with moves to Burkett in Coleman County in 1. Cross Plains Callahan County in 1. Roberts and his mothers lives. Cross Plains in the 1. Like much of the Central West Texas region, though, it went through periodic oil booms that brought hundreds, perhaps thousands, of temporary inhabitants who set up camps just outside the town limits, jammed the hotels beyond capacity, and rented rooms or beds in private homes. The lease men, riggers, drillers, tool dressers, and roughnecks who followed the oil were followed in their turn by others who sought to make a quick buck off them, from men or women who set up temporary hamburger stands to feed them, to gamblers and whores who provided recreation, to thugs, thieves and con men who simply preyed on them. An oil boom could transform a sleepy little community into a big city in no time at all, in those days, and bring with it much social upheaval. The few extra thousand who swelled the population of Cross Plains managed to make it a far wilder and rowdier town than usual. One resident recalls her family driving into town on Saturday night just to watch people, hoping fights would break out. Of the atmosphere in a boom town, Howard wrote Ill say one thing about an oil boom it will teach a kid that lifes a pretty rotten thing about as quick as anything I can think of. Just as fast as the town grew, however, it could decline when the oil played out, the speculators, oil field workers and their camp followers moved on. The influence of this boom and bust cycle on Howards later ideas about the growth and decline of civilization that societies are built by hardy pioneers, who are then followed by others who grow decadent and enjoy the fruits of the society but contribute nothing to its continued growth, and thus inevitably the society will decay or be overthrown by a new generation of pioneers has often been overlooked. Robert Howard attended the local high school, where he was remembered as polite and reserved. To make pocket money he labored at a variety of jobs, including hauling trash, picking up and delivering laundry for dry cleaners, working as a store clerk and loading freight at the train station. He had some close friends among the local boys, but none shared his literary interests, which had probably been nurtured from an early age by his mother, an ardent lover of poetry. He was an avid reader, claiming even to have raided schoolhouses during the summer in his quest for books. While this story is no doubt exaggerated, it demonstrates his love of reading, a rarity in these outlying communities, most of which had no libraries, much less bookstores. Howard devoured books at an extraordinary rate, astonishing his friends with his ability to pick up a book and turn the pages faster than they thought anyone could actually read. Yet later he could remember what he had read with perfect clarity. His friend Lindsey Tyson claimed that Howard had memorized The Rime of the Ancient Mariner after only two readings. Howards library, presented by his father to Howard Payne College after his death, reveals the breadth of his interests history and fiction are dominant, but also represented are biography, sports, poetry, anthropology, Texana and erotica. Near the end of his life, Howard wrote to the renowned fantasist H. P. Lovecraft, with whom he corresponded regularly, about his favorite writers. These included Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, Talbot Mundy, Harold Lamb, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Scott, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft. A huge fan of poetry, Howard also sought out the verse of Robert W. Service, Kipling, Sidney Lanier, Poe, Walter de la Mare, Omar Khayyam, Henry Herbert Knibbs, G. K. Chesterton, Oscar Wilde, Tennyson, Alfred Noyes and Lovecraft, among many others. In addition to his reading, Robert Howard had a passion for oral storytelling. It is well attested that he frequently told his stories aloud as he typed them, annoying his neighbors no end with the racket he often made right through the night.