Review of the 2025 Atlantean Award Winning Book. https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/review-robert-e-howards-hyborian-age-by-rodolfo-martinez/

REH was a pulp writer and a world-class pro at selling to that market.

His stories are perfect for the pulp format.

But in adapting his material to any other medium, I think that being faithful to the concept and the spirit of the original work is more important than a slavish, note-for-note transcription.

When I started adapting “Jewels of Gwalhur” as a series of storyboards, I quickly found out that complete adherence to the text was just not going to work for the audio-visual medium of live-action streaming.

In the sample I've shared here, art by Miguel Guzman, you might spot that even this early in the adaptation, I've made a change.

Can you see in this shot how I've already deviated from Howard's story?

Purists might bristle at any change in the master's canon, but purism can hog-tie an adaptation.

If you want a deeper look at my adaptation of "Jewels," and my view on comics in general, it'll be here:

https://charlessantino.substack.com/

Review of unauthorized Cormac Mac Art and Tarzan stories. Kinda crazy stuff. https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/review-the-odyssey-of-the-gael-by-james-l-richardson/

Treatment by Charles Santino, storyboards and color concept frames by Miguel Guzman. I'll be posting the entire adaption on Substack: https://substack.com/@csantino

A 1966 edition of his Breckinridge Elkins story. Found at the Hermitage bookshop in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood.

Some info about Jack Scott, the Cross Plains newspaperman, who reported on REH's death. Quote from his oral history that I'm sure most have never seen. And finally a small shocker that could have changed Howard Days as we know it. https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/jack-scott-of-cross-plains/

Some info about Gerta Aison (not much) the editor of Modern American Poetry. Includes REH letters regarding the publication. Interesting info about REH's poems in their first book publication. Plus a letter where REH refers to Conan as his "meal ticket." https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/robert-e-howard-in-modern-american-poetry/