Great Roy Krenkel illustration: The Golden Age of Pâtaliputra of the Gupta Empire

Thomas Haller Buchanan shared this stunning illustration by the great Roy Krenkel: "The Golden Age of Pâtaliputra of the Gupta Empire." Krenkel drew science fiction and fantasy for EC Comics, and he painted covers for a bunch or Edgar Rice Burroughs novels.

Frank Frazetta said, "I met Roy Krenkel back in 1949 or 1950, and he has never ceased to be a constant source of inspiration to me -- a truly conscientious artist who will not tolerate incompetence."

Even when Roy Krenkel drew reconstructions of historical eras of Earth, they looked other-worldly, as out of a dream.

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OH! I just had a sense of deja-vu.

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Confirmed . . . Krenkel did the cover (and interior art, as I recall) of Citadel, an old boardgame I bought many years back:

http://boardgamegeek.com/image/51306/citadel?size=large
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Vanwall

I honestly see much more Krenkel in modern fanatsy and sci-fi films than Frazetta or any of the others. The latest John Carter film was Krenkel leaping and dashing come to life.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

I like how some of the expletives in the Ralph Bakshi film ‘Wizards’ are “Morrow! Krenkle! And Frazetta!”
Shashwath T.R.

It’s not only beautiful, it’s also accurate, and captures exactly the feel that I think that city should have had as the capital of the largest empire in its neighborhood!

The only thing missing is probably the hundreds of palanquins that would have carried the well-to-do; government officials, lords and ladies of various stripes, high class “entertainers”,…