Jim Holloway Love-In Thread

[Dr Rotwang!]

Paranoia art, AD&D, Tales of the Floating Vagabond...

...where's the looooove?!

[ColonelHardisson]

Along with Roger Raupp, Holloway is arguably one of the most underrated AD&D artists. His work really helped define AD&D of the early 80s, whether it was in Dragon or in modules like Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. His work is always a welcome sight.

[Akrasia]

In addition to his extensive work for Dragon (indeed, when I think of 'Dragon art' I almost invariably think of Holloway), he did pretty much all the art for the Monster Manual 2.  Good stuff!

I also liked the art he did for MERP (1e), and regret that ICE got rid of those illustrations (as well as those of Denis Loubet) for the second edition.  Bad move.  Although they did use Holloway exclusively for Spell Law (2e).

He's recently being doing some of the art for Goodman Games' Dungeon Crawl Classics.  It's great to see his stuff again!

[Dr Rotwang!]

Along with Roger Raupp ....

*slap*  High-five, right there, Colonel.  Yeah!

[jrients]

Holloway's illos made Star Frontiers and Gangbusters feel like light and carefree romps, but with guns and explosions and such.

However my alltime favorite Holloway illo comes from an old Dragon magazine.  I'll dig it up and post it on my blog with a linky.

[ColonelHardisson]

I always dug Holloway's depiction of halflings (and Hobbits in the MERP books he worked on). I also think he did a great job with dwarves, too, especially in the old Dragon article on dwarven society and gods.

[Lawbag]

he definately had two sides to his style, the Paranoia comedy, plus the clever intimate fantasy art that was so untypical of artists.

a real gem

[ChalkLine]

I think my favourite illo of Holloway is in (I think) Danger at Dunwater, it's just a bunch of adventurers resting, one is in a kettle hat with a crossbow resting on his shoulder.

It really struck a chord with me, those unshaven grungy guys in (authentic) mediaeval gear. I think that illo has really shaped the way I play.

[jrients]

My favorite Holloway illo.

[Akrasia]

My favorite Holloway illo.

Wow, I remember that picture.  It is indeed a great one.  

I loved Holloway's more whimsical pieces.  There's a recent nice one here (you'll need to scroll down a bit):
http://www.goodman-games.com/5100preview.php

[beeber]

does holloway have his own website?  or raupp?

love seeing the old illustrations again.  they take me back to the good part of my high school memories.

jim's stuff personified "paranoia" for me back then.

[Yamo]

Oh, man, don't get me started.

His stuff always made me want to crack a smile. Prime example of how gaming wasn't afraid to be silly back in the day.

Now it's all fetish gear, intense stares and 'roidy muscles. Still silly, after a fashion, but hardly the same.

Thank God Paranoia is back (along with Holloway). If only we had more stuff like Toon, Ghostbusters, Teenagers From Outer Space, Floating Vegabond, Bunnies & Burrows, Gamma World...You get the idea.

[mysterycycle]

Thank God Paranoia is back (along with Holloway).

I simply can't imagine Paranoia without Jim Holloway's artwork.  Trying to picture it without Holloway would be like trying to separate...um...two inextricably mingled things.

[ColonelHardisson]

Wow, I remember that picture.  It is indeed a great one.  

I loved Holloway's more whimsical pieces.  There's a recent nice one here (you'll need to scroll down a bit):
http://www.goodman-games.com/5100preview.php

That pic you link to is really nice, and shows Holloway still has it. Holloway was always really good at depicting action, often realistically so. People stumbling, awkward stances, missed blows, odd facial expressions, etc. Very fun and very dynamic stuff. Arnie Swekel has a similar quality to his work, especially in his art for various Pendragon supplements.

[Settembrini]

Didn´t he also make some of the old battletech artwork?