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| Also in ‘71, I attended the Los Angeles Science Fiction convention, where 1 met a group known as “The Dinosaur Club.” The club had many Sci-Fi writers who knew Hannas Bok. 1 talked with Clark Aston Smith who brought a few color preliminary studies by Bok of the Weird Tales cover from July of 1941 titled, “The Robot God.” These roughs were done in crayon as Bok couldn't afford to do studies in oils. While visiting Emil in San Francisco, he showed me a Bok painting of a sunset in bright, beautiful oranges, reds, and blues. The “canvas” was a piece of rusted metal. Emil pointed out that during the Depression, Bok shared a shack with a bunch of cats at a Seattle dump and that the artist was so poor he painted on whatever flat surface he could find. |
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