{"id":5476,"date":"2017-08-07T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2017-08-07T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T08:07:34","slug":"julek-heller-and-ralph-vernon-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/08\/07\/julek-heller-and-ralph-vernon-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Julek Heller and Ralph Vernon-Hunt plus Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Julek Heller was born in 1944 in Jerusalem of Polish parents, who came to England as refugees in 1947. Now living in London, Heller has been working on non-commissioned fantasy illustrations since 2000. I have tried to contact him via his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julekheller.com\/index.php?dsp=Home\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">website<\/span><\/a> but no response so far.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SS.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SS-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His first covers for PAN\/Piccolo, are far as I can find, were &#8216;The Songs of Summer&#8217; by Robert Silverberg and &#8216;More Irish Fairy Tales&#8217; by Sineadde de Valera from 1979. He went on to paint several more covers for both imprints plus later ones under the TOR imprint. Some examples can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2017\/Heller\/Heller.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a> with more to be added soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve been communicating with June Read in Canada this last week. She contacted me a while ago, then went off travelling but has now returned and is sorting out bits and pieces from when she retired from being Ralph Vernon-Hunts secretary in the 1970&#8217;s. Here is a taster with more to come next week. I&#8217;ve added the bit from the book cover as a reminder.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ralph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ralph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ralph.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ralph-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>My son&#8217;s wedding in Kent went off really well last Saturday and although we did get the downpour at 2:30, just as we came out of the church (which had unfortunately been forecast all the proceeding\u00a0 week) the sun shone after this. I was very proud of my wife with her reading from Shakespeare. Even the vicar said he didn&#8217;t want to sound patronising but it was one of the best readings he had heard. We hope Thomas and Catherine have a very long and happy marriage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Wedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Wedding.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Wedding-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Wedding-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a>On the minus side I&#8217;ve missed two of my favourite &#8216;must visit&#8217; annual book fairs, the Methodist church in Lichfield and the Baddesley Clinton NT fair near Warwick both starting on the 5th.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julek Heller was born in 1944 in Jerusalem of Polish parents, who came to England as refugees in 1947. Now living in London, Heller has been working on non-commissioned fantasy illustrations since 2000. I have tried to contact him via his website but no response so far.His first covers for PAN\/Piccolo, are far as I [&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\/5476"}],"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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}