Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards

The winners were announced at a ceremony at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas on June 7th.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Atlantean — Outstanding Achievement, Book (non-anthology/collection)

Winner: DAVID C. SMITH – Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography (Pulp Hero Press)

Finalists:
FRED BLOSSER – Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengence (Pulp Hero Press)
DON HERRON and LEO GRIN – Famous Someday: A Robert E. Howard Biography (The Cimmerian Press)


The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Print)

Winner: RICK LAI – “Poseidon and the Gods of the Robert E. Howard Universe” – Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents #4: Pulpourri

Finalists:
BOBBY DERIE – “That Fool Olson” – Lovecraft Annual 12
DAMON YOUNG – “I Love, I Slay, And Am Content” – Island Magazine #124


The Cimmerian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Online)

Winner: DEUCE RICHARDSON – “Stephen Fabian and Robert E. Howard (3 Parts)” – DMR Books Blog

Finalists:
BOBBY DERIE – “Conan and E’ch-Pi-El: Robert E. Howard in the Biographies of H. P. Lovecraft” – On An Underwood No. 5
KEITH TAYLOR – “Black Vulmea – Robert E. Howard’s Roughneck Pirate (2 Parts)” – DMR Books Blog



The Venarium — Emerging Scholar

Winner: BOB BYRNE – Contributed essays for Black Gate
Finalists:
PHILIP EMERY – Completed Doctoral Thesis on REH and Sword and Sorcery
NICOLE EMMELHAINZ – Presented paper at Glenn Lord Symposium


The Stygian—Outstanding Achievement, Website or Periodical

Winners (TIE):ON AN UNDERWOOD NO. 5 (Todd Vick)
REH FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER (Lee Breakiron)

Finalist:
BLACK GATE (John O’Neill)

The Black Lotus – Outstanding Achievement, Multimedia

Winner: THE CROMCAST (audio podcast) – Josh Adkins, Luke Dodd, and Jon Larson
Finalists:
HOWARD DAYS 2018 (videos)– Ben Friberg
ROGUES IN THE HOUSE PODCAST – Matt Sullivan, Logan Whitney, and Alex Kostopoulos

The Black River—Special Achievement

Winner: JEFFREY SHANKS, ANDREW McFEATERS, THADRA STANTON, and HEATHER YOUNG – For the National Park Service Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project

Finalists:
MARK HALL – For his years of service as editor of The Dark Man
ROY THOMAS – for his publication of Barbarian Life, the history of Conan in the comics.


The Rankin — Artistic achievement in the depiction of REH’s life and/or work

Winner: TOM GRINDBERG – Cover art for Conan the Pirate sourcebook for Conan RPG (Modiphius) – Depicts “Queen of the Black Coast”

Finalists:
BILL CAVALIER – Cover Art for Pictures in the Fire (REHF Press)
RONAN TOULHOAT – Conan le Cimmérien, Tome 2 : Le colosse noir (Glenat) – Depicts “Black Colossus”

Black Circle Award – Lifetime Achievement

Winner: N/A

Finalists:
FRED BLOSSER
PAUL HERMAN
DONALD WOLLHEIM (posthumous)
As a 60% majority vote was not achieved for any candidate, there is no Black Circle Award winner this year.

Crom Award (Board of Directors Award)

Winner: PROJECT PRIDE – For over three decades of interpreting and promoting the life and work of Robert E. Howard through the REH House and Museum.

The Crom Award is a special recognition given very infrequently by the REH Foundation Board of Directors.

Conan and the Living Plague 
by John C. Hocking
Coming September 3, 2019

The long awaited follow up to 'Conan And The Emerald Lotus', Hocking once again proves to be amongst the best of the Conan pastiche writers.

Sent to recover treasure from a plague-wracked city, not only must Conan avoid its deranged survivors, but battle a deadly disease given humanoid shape. To save himself - and perhaps the world - he allies with a scheming sorcerer to traverse a demon-haunted abyss in a desperate bid to destroy the Living Plague.

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Titan Books

Amazon

New at Howard Works

Splitter Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (German)
Conan der Cimmerier: Jenseits des schwarzen Flusses
Featuring:  "Beyond the Black River"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_der_Cimmerier-Jenseits_des_schwarzen_Flusses-Splitter.html

Splitter Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (German)
Conan der Cimmerier: Ymirs Tochter
Featuring: "The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_der_Cimmerier-Ymirs_Tochter-Splitter.html

Robert Derie
Weird Beginnings
Featuring: "Spear and Fang" & "In the Forest of Villefere"
http://howardworks.com/WeirdBeginnings-RobertDerie.html

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 6 
Featuring:  "People of the Dark"
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N6-Marvel.html

Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards

The winner of The Rankin award has been announced!

The Rankin
Artistic achievement in the depiction of REH’s life and/or work

TOM GRINDBERG
Cover art for Conan the Pirate sourcebook for Conan RPG (Modiphius)
Depicts “Queen of the Black Coast”

Congratulations Tom!

The winners of the remaining REHF Awards will be posted once the information becomes available.

SAVAGE AVENGERS #2 (Featuring Conan) 
Now available!

Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Mike Deodato Jr. (Art)
Cover by David Finch

• The Hand has teamed up with the evil wizards of the Hyborian Age to summon a death god from a celestial hell.
• The only thing standing between Earth and destruction is the Savage Avengers: Conan, Wolverine, Punisher and Voodoo.
• Plus: Logan donates blood, changing one Avenger forever. And Conan discovers a dark secret squirming in a genie bottle.
• Your new favorite ongoing series is knives out in its second chapter.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

Marvel Comics  

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of 06/03/2019
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update
THE AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #3 (Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #6 (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #5 (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #1  (Marvel)
Silken Swords: An Informal Guide to the Women in the
Fiction of Robert E. Howard by Fred Blosser (Pulp Hero Press)

In your future

06/2019
POST OAKS AND SAND ROUGHS (Robert E. Howard Foundation Press)

06/05/2019
SAVAGE AVENGERS #2  (Marvel)

06/12/2019
THE AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #4 (Marvel)
CONAN LE CIMMERIEN: CHIMÈRES DE FER DANS LA CLARTÉ LUNAIRE (Glénat)

06/19/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #6 (Marvel)

06/26/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #7 (Marvel)

07/03/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOL. 1: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN BOOK ONE TPB (Marvel)
CONAN: THE JEWELS OF GWAHLUR AND OTHER STORIES TPB (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #3 (Marvel)

07/10/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #7 (Marvel)

07/24/2019
AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #5
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS Volume 2 (Marvel)
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE CULT OF KOGA THUN TPB [Color and B&W editions]

07/31/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #8 (Marvel)

08/07/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: EXODUS #1 (Marvel)
THE MARVEL ART OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN
SAVAGE AVENGERS #4  (Marvel)

08/14/2019
AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #1  (Marvel)

08/21/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #8 (Marvel)

09/18/2019
AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST TPB (Marvel)

11/06/2019
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 HC (Marvel)

Hither Came Conan: "Wolves Beyond the Border"
By Woelf Dietrich

New post at the Black Gate blog.
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/06/03/hither-came-conan-woelf-dietrich-on-wolves-beyond-the-border/