Atlantean Tarn Eagle Rider and Nephilim

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Senior.

COMPANY: Argonaut-GreyWolf / Phalanx Presents.

CLIENT: Michael and Clara O'Connell Production Company along with John Norman in 1986. John Norman is the pen name of John Frederick Lange Jr. (born June 3, 1931), who is the author of the Gor series of science fantasy novels, and a professor of philosophy. In 2021 the man is now 90 years of age.

YEAR: 1987 (January while I was still in the Marines)

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PROJECT: Sample drawing rendered for the Atlantean Tarn Eagle Rider and Nephilim Chieftain who was the patron god of the Tarnsmen and Tarnswomen of Gor project which was an as-is comic graphic novella as inspired by the John Norman erotic science fiction book series being developed by the Michael and Clara O'Connell Production Company out of Balsa Chica, California.

MODELS: Dawn Angelique DiCicco of Mission Viejo, California and Anton Alexander Adzhubei From Moscow via Vienna who was teaching at the Otis Parsons College of Art and Design.

MEDIA: Black Higgins India ink, Pentel black felt tip pen, Bic ball points, Rapidograph pens and Pilot fine tip pens.

NOTES: The tarn is a large, crested bird, similar in looks of that of both a hawk and jay of Earth, although hundreds of times larger. These birds are raised, bred for both colors of plumage, as well as intelligence and strength, and trained to be ridden; it is one of the most common mounts found on Gor.

Disregarding the disproportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's. Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and, like their diminutive counterparts the hawks, are carnivorous. It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. They fear nothing but the tarn-goad.

LOCATION: Penthouse 19, Kingswood Village Apartments, Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles County, California on the coast overlooking Venice Beach.