We'll probably never know why Tramp left and turned his back so definitively on RPG art, but it's a huge loss. His 1E art still holds up, IMO, even when some of his peers' work doesn't. And damn it, Wormy was funny as hell.
Yeah there were so many games. Besides already mentioned, Star Frontiers, MERP, Gangbusters, Boot Hill, Traveller. Any of those old TSR games for sure.What, no callout for all those covers he did for Avalon Hill's Tales From the Floating Vagabond? Clearly his magnum opus, and the main reason most people bought the fool things in the first place.
I don't think that's defensible when it comes to Trampier's Wormy strips, but he's not a contender for greatest volume anyway. Some of those comic pages rival any art that's ever been associated with D&D.
Something about Holloway's style always rubbed me a little wrong, but I can admit that objectively he was a great artist, especially for more humorous stuff. His work for Paranoia in particular is iconic.
Oh man, Daniel Horne definitely had fewer pieces, but some of them are absolute classics.
What, no callout for all those covers he did for Avalon Hill's Tales From the Floating Vagabond? Clearly his magnum opus, and the main reason most people bought the fool things in the first place.
I don't think that's defensible when it comes to Trampier's Wormy strips, but he's not a contender for greatest volume anyway. Some of those comic pages rival any art that's ever been associated with D&D.
That was one of the pages I was thinking of. I know several people who bought multiple copies of that issue so they could clip out Wormy and put it up on their wall. And the pages leading up to it display a real mastery of sequential art too, the pacing is just perfect.
