Prolific artist,especially in the sixties:
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Very fluid style. He had the ability to convey mass and movement with a few strokes, as seen in the little sketches he often provided inside the magazines,and on the title pages of a lot of the Ace paperbacks.
Speaking of which, I think I first became aware of him as a distinct artist when I was given a copy of the first Ace edition of "The Dragon Masters":
A really cool,"jazzy" cover. Kind of appropriate,as Vance played jazz cornet.
BTW, Gaughan did the covers for the very first paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings -- the infamous "pirate" editions:
Even though Tolkien encouraged the boycott of the Ace printings, he preferred Gaughan's artwork to that used for the Ballantines,which he famously detested.
paints two Adder Combat Cars as support vehicles for his Magrav force in Age of Madness.
