1. Roy Krenkel's artwork revealed the strong influence of artist Norman Lindsay, in addition to Franklin Booth, Joseph Clement Coll and J Allen St John.
10 Facts About Roy Krenkel
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Roy Krenkel sometimes collaborated with Frazetta and Williamson on pages the trio drew for EC Comics particularly in Weird Science, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science-Fantasy.
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Roy Krenkel only drew one solo story for EC, the unsigned "Time to Leave", displaying a futuristic cityscape of architectural splendors.
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Roy Krenkel inked many of Williamson's comic stories for Marvel and American Comics Group in the 1950s as well.
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Roy Krenkel was known for regarding his own work as disposable and unimportant.
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Roy Krenkel's work includes 23 paperback book cover paintings as well as frontispieces for Edgar Rice Burroughs and other fantasy writers published by Donald A Wollheim at Ace Books.
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When Lancer revived Robert E Howard's creation Conan the Barbarian, with revisions by L Sprague de Camp, Krenkel was cited by cover artist Frazetta as a consultant.
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Roy Krenkel created preliminary roughs which Frazetta modified and used when he painted covers for Warren Publishing's Creepy and Eerie.
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Roy Krenkel contributed to several science fiction fanzines, including Richard A Lupoff's Xero, the Burroughs-oriented ERBdom and Amra, devoted to the works of Howard.
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In 1963, Roy Krenkel won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.