Fastner & Larson
ValleyCon is thrilled to welcome two of the most prolific and celebrated artists in science fiction/fantasy/comics/promotional art.. you name it!
From SQP description of their collection: The art team of Steve Fastner and Rich Larson have been creating incredible images of fantasy art in blazing color long before the advent of computers and digital sleight-of-hand. They're proudly "old-school", bringing to life amazing illustrations using nothing but a limitless imagination and an overworked airbrush! The Fastner & Larson Gallery is truly a fantasy fan's collection of "well-armed and scantily-clad naughty warrior maidens" dream come true! Steve and Rich's delightful and decadent take on all things "saucy" has long been a source of wry smiles and wicked thoughts!
Rich Larson
Rich Larson may be among the most wide-ranging comics and fantasy artists you've never heard of. He drew ghost stories (Charlton) and undergrounds (Kitchen Sink, Last Gasp) in the 70s;
Marvel super-hero portfolios (SQP) and the female ninja Whisper (Capital, First) in the 80s; barbarian babe portfolios, Judge Dredd covers and his own creation -- Demon Baby -- in the
90s; and the webcast epic Edward the Less for the Sci-Fi Channel last year. He also storyboarded The Right Stuff, MST3K--The Movie, and Jerry Garcia's never-produced Sirens of Titan
project. With painter Steve Fastner, he's done covers for Weird Western, Lady Rawhide, Bill the Galactic Hero; novelizations of the Hulk and Gen13, and Harvey Kurtzman's humor
paperback, Nuts. Also card art for Star Wars Galaxy, Vampirella and Mars Attacks II; and album covers for Overkill, Intruder and Powermad. Fastner and Larson's ongoing series is the
somewhat spicy, slightly scary Haunted House of Lingerie, and a new retrospective of their work, Fastner & Larson: Gallery (SQP/Modern Graphics) is available now!
Steve Fastner
(Airbrush artist) writes: "I was born in 1954 in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the 1960s I developed a liking for comic books, monsters and sci-fi movies."
"In 1974, I attended St. Paul Vocational Technical School for Commercial Art, where I took an evening airbrush class. Then I went to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for one-and-a-half years."
"I got a job in a small advertising agency doing layouts, retouching and keylining. I went freelance in 1980, specializing in airbrush art."
"I discovered Minneapolis comic-book fandom in 1973 when I picked up a fanzine called Morpheus, with artwork by Rich Larson. I met Rich at a ComicCon, and eventually we teamed up on paintings for Sal Quartuccio Publications like Hot Stuff, Pin-Up Portfolios, Rich Larson's Haunted House of Lingerie and the Demon Baby comic miniseries."
"We've also done paperback covers for Byron Preiss Visual Publications, trading cards for Topps, album and CD covers for various metal bands, posters, t-shirts, etc..."
More detailed Bios, examples and decadence will be coming soon! (Thanks to SQP and DragonCon for the use of their material)