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Hannes Bok
Hannes BokBorn: July 2, 1914
Died: April 11, 1964
Background
Hannes Bok was born Wayne Woodard, though the location of his birth has been listed as Duluth, Minn., or Kansas City, Mo. He died nearly 50 years later in New York City.His first pulp cover was for the December 1939 number of WeirdTales Weird Tales, for a story titled Lords of the Ice, by KellerDavidH David H. Keller. He continued regularly providing covers and interior artwork for WeirdTales WT and other pulps, including AstonishingStories Astonishing Stories, FamousFantasticMysteries Famous Fantastic Mysteries, OtherWorlds Other Worlds, SuperScienceStories Super Science Stories and UnknownMagazine Unknown.
A mirror-image of this painting (above) by Bok was published as the wrap-around cover for the digest FantasyandScienceFiction Fantasy and Science Fiction in November 1963. It illustrated Roger Zelazny’s A Rose for Ecclesiastes.In 1953, Bok shared the first Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in the science and fantasy field with Ed Ernshwiller.
Comments/trivia
- The artist is said to have devised his pseudonym “Hans Bok” (later Hannes Bok) in honor of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Outside links
- Hannes Bok Illustration Index is an online version of Cuyler W. Brooks Jr.’s book of the same name.
