Robert Erwin Howard was born and raised in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. He became known as the father of Sword and Sorcery for pioneering the genre with his pulp fiction tales of Conan the Barbarian. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.
Described as a rising star in the European comics scene, Valentin Sécher has now taken over the graphic design of Michael Morlock’s Elric, for the fifth volume. He has been published by Titan Comics with the title Khaal, and by Humanoids with The Metabaron Book.
