![]() ![]() ![]() The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The original content was at Barry Windsor-Smith. This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. During their run together, Thomas and Smith also created original adventures and characters as well, including the flame-haired warrior-woman, Red Sonja, loosely based on Red Sonya, a character from one of Howard's non-Conan stories. ![]() Along with writer Roy Thomas, Smith adapted the Howard stories " The Frost-Giant's Daughter", " The Tower of the Elephant", " Rogues in the House", and " Red Nails". At first drawing in a manner lifted from Jack Kirby, within a couple of years he developed a unique style for comics at the time, borrowing from pre-raphaelites such as Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (whose influence would saturate Windsor-Smith's artwork even more in later years). He rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the original penciller for Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian. Barry Windsor-Smith (formerly known as Barry Smith), born May 25th, 1949 in Forest Gate, London, is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known for his work has been produced in the United States. ![]()
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