{"id":39361,"date":"2025-07-18T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39361"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:41:41","slug":"barry-windsor-smiths-beautiful-cover-art-for-conan-saga-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39361","title":{"rendered":"Barry Windsor Smith&#8217;s Beautiful Cover Art for Conan Saga #1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z071825conansaga1_bws.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the cover art (without the cover dressing) used for <em>Conan Saga<\/em> #1 by legendary Conan artist <a href=\"https:\/\/barrywindsor-smith.com\/story-teller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Windsor Smith<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what part of what Smith said about the piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I consider this work my definitive Conan. The strange background edifice and the mystical decoration are hallmarks of my early Conan comics stories&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/barrywindsor-smith.com\/Sagahtml\/saga1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the rest of the quote (and a larger version of the art) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the cover art (without the cover dressing) used for Conan Saga #1 by legendary Conan artist Barry Windsor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39362,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361\/revisions\/39362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}