Friday, April 10, 2009

Keith Parkinson Was Awesome

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Exhibit 3.

Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury: I rest my case.
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  1. EdsanApril 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM

    Holy! I didn't even knew there where Gamma World Quest Books.

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  2. James MaliszewskiApril 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    Parkinson really exemplifies "Silver Age" D&D to me. I find his pieces are hit or miss, but then my esthetic preferences tend toward the Trampier/Sutherland/Otus end of things. That said, he's done a number of superb pieces that really captured the essence of what D&D was in the mid to late 80s.

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  3. letsdamageApril 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    Holy! I didn't even knew there where Gamma World Quest Books.

    I think that might have been the only one.

    Parkinson really exemplifies "Silver Age" D&D to me. I find his pieces are hit or miss, but then my esthetic preferences tend toward the Trampier/Sutherland/Otus end of things. That said, he's done a number of superb pieces that really captured the essence of what D&D was in the mid to late 80s.

    Considering that I came to the hobby "in the mid to late 80s" and played a lot of Palladium games, it shouldn't be a surprise that I am a Parkinson fan. I think his work sits far above that of his "Silver Age" contemporaries (Elmore, Caldwell, and Easley).

    Parkinson was one of my favorite fantasy artists, period. I was saddened when he passed away a few years ago.

    (I love Trampier's stuff too, but despite a few great illustrations here and there, Sutherland and Otus tend to leave me cold. Otus' work usually looks too "trippy-hippie" to me.)

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  4. noismsApril 10, 2009 at 8:19 PM

    Yes, he was awesome. And that's not a word I use lightly.

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