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Conan Art

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I just floated around over to the Conan department with Larry Hama and Jim Owsely. Then Owsely went on to something else and it was Larry Hama and Pat Redding. Pat Redding was going out with Dave Simons at the time so it was really cool. I got all the pin-ups I wanted to and did everything I wanted to do. I got to ink a bunch of John Buscema stuff and got to work with other people. There was one issue of Savage Sword Of Conan that I both pencilled and inked, issue #175, 'Blade Of The Demon Slayer', half the book I spent a lot of time on and the last bit they wanted it so bad I had to rush it, I had to knock it out. There are one or two pages in there that really showed what I was capable of if I had been allowed my time to work on things, but comics are a business.