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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You should probably choose a different comparison. I believe their cartooney work is a big part of why so many people are so quick to scoff at fantasy to this day. They were OK for the late '70s (when all you had to choose from were them, Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo) when that comic-book look is what people wanted for SF/F, but they'd probably have difficulty getting cover-gigs in todays market (even if both were still alive and collaborating).
I'm nostalgic for a lot of the books their artwork adorned, but the artwork itself always made me cringe and want to hide the book whenever people were around.
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Different strokes for different folks. I loved their art work. I even bought a couple of books (the original Sword of Shannara for example) because they did the cover art. I even picked up a copy of "The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt". Their Tolkien calendar was hugely popular.