Stephen E. Fabian's Ladies and Legends

'Stephen E. Fabian's Ladies and Legends'
by Stephen E. Fabian
Underwood-Miller, 1993

U.S. artist Stephen E. Fabian (b. 1930) was a prolific illustrator of small-press sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books, as well as a cover artist for mainstream publishers, from the late 60s throughout the 2000s. He particularly was adept in black-and-white and graytone illustrations.

Unlike other genre artists of the same era, whose works would be assembled into dedicated art books from companies like Dragon's Dream / Paper Tiger, Ballantine Books, or Pomegranate, compilations of Fabian's work tended to be issued in limited-run hardbound books, and as limited edition Portfolios. 

Fantasy by Fabian, 1979, Gerry de la Ree / Saddle River, N.J.

That means that presently, accessing Fabian's work can only be done through two hardcover books released by Underwood-Miller in the 1990s: Stephen E. Fabian's Ladies and Legends (1993) and Stephen E. Fabian's Women and Wonders (1995).

Below are a selection of the illustrations compiled in Ladies and Legends. I'll be posting selections from Women and Wonders in the future if there is interest.

And who knows...........maybe Titan Books, or Dark Horse Books, or Dynamite will arrange to issue a nice compilation of Fabian's art as a oversize hardbound book........?!