Manuel Pérez-Sanjulián Clemente — known to the world as the artist Sanjulián has died at 85.
Sanjulián was a giant in the world of fantasy and horror illustration — he had a masterful touch in evoking the macabre and uncanny. His Western and frontier-oriented art is less well-known, but no less potent. As I noted in a 2019 post, Sanjulián’s West was both savage and sexy.
Sometimes the Weird and the West came together, and sometimes he ventured out into straight adventure (hat tip to Deuce Richardson for searching out several images):
Sanjulián plied his trade at the height of an era of illustration that is gone beyond recall. He was a giant and he left a major mark. Raise a horn to the Catalan maestro and his images from a wild, weird and carnal world.
deuce says
With all my heart, I want someone with talent to write a yarn or make a movie about that wild and weird “Fantasy Western” piece. There is aone hell of a STORY to be told right there.
I didn’t know Sanjulian had done something on ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’ until just the other day–a silver lining to an otherwise sad event. Manuel was truly one of the great Frontier Partisan artists.
Quixotic Mainer says
I was just going to ask in hopes that was the cover of a novel! I too would very much like to read it.