{"id":14088,"date":"2023-07-03T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=14088"},"modified":"2023-07-03T07:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T06:55:23","slug":"james-e-mcconnell-hans-helweg-and-dictionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2023\/07\/03\/james-e-mcconnell-hans-helweg-and-dictionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"James E McConnell, Hans Helweg and Dictionaries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was really pleased to come back from a couple of days away to find my copy of &#8216;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Minatare Masterpieces&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/span> by Steve Chibnall had arrived. It&#8217;s a very lavishly illustrated (and weighty) tome and I was going to try and take some photos but found a video that shows more than I could. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-v1qqxP71e8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to see it. My only complaint about my copy is that it looks like it has been dropped as the lower spine is wrinkled. I have one piece of McConnell artwork, the cover for &#8216;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Bounty Man&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em> by Mike M&#8217;Craken in the Western Library series and painted in 1951.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"14089\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=14089\" class=\"wp-image-14089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM1.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM1-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"14090\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=14090\" class=\"wp-image-14090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM2.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BM2-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m always on the lookout for any books with covers by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/HansHelweg\/HansHelweg.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hans Helweg<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and although this is not PAN it was painted at the same time as Hans was working on PAN covers and shows how versatile those artists were. It is &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/HansHelweg\/HansChildrens.htm\"><em><strong>Boy on a Sheep Trail&#8217;<\/strong> <\/em><\/a><\/span>and is one of the 71 titles in the SRA Pilot Library series. Just wondering if Hans painted any of the others?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14097\" width=\"477\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sheep-Trail-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PAN always had an eclectic mix of non-fiction titles with several dictionaries on various subjects amongst them. I have taken a few of the ones on shelves to put on a page<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2023\/G\/Dictionaries.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. I<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> do have more and will add them when I find the boxes I stored them in as most were too big to go on the shelf.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-1024x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14109\" width=\"512\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-1024x93.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-300x27.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-768x70.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-1536x140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Spine-2048x187.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sad-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sad-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sad.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>Just heard something which could upset a lot of peoples plans. There are planned train strikes on the 28th and 29th July, the day before the &#8216;Paperback and Pulp Fair&#8217; in London on the 30th and they say this could disrupt services on the Sunday morning. looks like it is a case of wait and see.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really pleased to come back from a couple of days away to find my copy of &#8216;Minatare Masterpieces&#8217; by Steve Chibnall had arrived. It&#8217;s a very lavishly illustrated (and weighty) tome and I was going to try and take some photos but found a video that shows more than I could. Click HERE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}