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| See my Chronomaster page for info on this game partially developed by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold. | There exists an old computer game called Nine Princes in Amber, which was primarily text-based and not very successful. Check my NPiA game page for more info. |
The Illustrated Roger Zelazny contains several stories in comic format. Other publications and adaptations are listed here:
The first half or third of Nine Princes in Amber was adapted to comic by John Onoda in 1975, and published in a very limited edition.
A second effort in 1996 adapted the first two books of the Amber series in color, published by Byron Preiss Productions.
"And I Only Am Escaped To Tell Thee" was adapted to an 11 page black and white comic for the comic collection Weird Business, published in 1995 by Mojo Press. The script adaptation was by Paul O. Miles, artwork by Barbe and Theodore Spoon, and lettering by Brad Thomte.
James Zimmerman adapted and illustrated a 28-page comic book version of "The Last Defender of Camelot" in 1993. The lettering was done by Bill Cavalier, and Lew Hartman and John Bergerud each contributed one fully illustrated page. See the products page for information on ordering the comic.
(Also see Zimmerman's artwork below.)
The adaptation of "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" which was published in The Illustrated Roger Zelazny first appeared in Star*Reach issue #12.
"The Game of Blood and Dust" was published in the June 1984 issue of Epic Illustrated with black and white art by Peter Botsis.
The adaptation of "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" which was published in The Illustrated Roger Zelazny
first appeared in Heavy Metal magazine, January 1978.
Corben's artwork for the 1980 Dell edition of Deus Irae appeared in the Comic Images "Richard Corben" card collection as card #35, with the name "Where Basketball Court?"
Twenty of the twenty-three Trump cards illustrated by Hamilton for the Visual Guide to Castle Amber were remastered and printed in 8.5" x 11" signed and numbered print runs of 500. The Trumps came in velum covered presentation folders with certificates of authenticity. They were sold by the now defunct Knightsbridge Collectibles, for $20 each.
According to an ad in the back of James Zimmerman's "Last Defender of Camelot" comic adapation, Lew Hartman created and sold two sets of artwork: Visions of Amber volumes I and II. Volume I was a limited edition portfolio of 250 sets of five black and white illustrations, signed and numbered by Hartman, and including an introduction by Jane Lindskold. The price was $25. Volume II was a set of six color illustrations from original oil paintings, being sold for $37.50.
A 17.5" x 23" signed print of "Black Rose" was published by Archival Press in 1977. "Black Rose" is the image used on the 1st edition paperback of Nine Princes in Amber. For information on ordering, see the products page.
Peter Jones' art collection Solar Wind includes his illustration of the UK edition of Today We Choose Faces.
Maitz' illustration for the cover of Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming appears in both his art collection
Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz (published in soft and hardcover) and as card #77, "Prince Charming", in the 1994 FGP "Don Maitz" card set.
Morill's image used on the cover of the Phantasia Press edition of Madwand was issued as a 200-copy signed and numbered print.
The artist J.K. Potter did an illustration for a Signet edition of Bridge of Ashes, which was also printed as a
metallic card.
Darrell K. Sweet's Beyond Fantasy: The Art of Darrell K. Sweet
contains a print of Sweet's "Last Exit to Babylon," which was used as the cover of the paperback edition of Roadmarks.
Ron Walotsky, who has illustrated covers from Lord of Light to Donnerjack, has several of his Zelazny-related works available for purchase. Small images of the prints are posted on his website:
Walotsky's Inner Visions, a book of
artwork from various projects, includes an illustration for Donnerjack
and his illustration for the Easton Press publication of Nine Princes in Amber.
FGP published a James Warhola collectible card set in 1995. The card "Wizard Transfer" (#49) includes Warhola's illustration for the first Avon paperback of The Last Defender of Camelot, "Party at Frank's" (#73) was used for A Night in the Lonesome October, and "Barroom Chess" (#75) shows off his artwork for the original paperback of Unicorn Variations. On the back of each card is a short blurb by Warhola and an additional sketch from preliminary work on the scene.
Tim White has illustrated more than a dozen Zelazny covers, and most of those illustrations are collected in Chiaroscuro (reviewed here by infinity plus):
Additionally, Tim White has illustrated:
FPG released a card set in 1994 containing several of the Zelazny related pieces White has created. "A Dark Traveling" was published as an oversized promo card, and "Lord of Light" and "Eye of Cat" as metallic storm cards numbers 2 and 3. Included as regular cards were:
Full size, high-quality prints of most of his works are available directly from Tim White, along with postcards and posters of select pieces. See the products page for details.
Patrick Woodroffe illustrated the covers of the original Corgi paperbacks of the first two books of Amber. His art collection
Mythopoeikon, published by Paper Tiger in both paperback and hardcover, includes a quarter-page display of his
Nine Princes in Amber cover and a full page for Guns of Avalon.
When I ordered his "Last Defender of Camelot" adaptation, James Zimmerman was kind enough to include a couple of pages of black and white collages based on scenes from Amber, and to give me permission to post them:
According to an ad in the back of James Zimmerman's "Last Defender of Camelot" adaptation, Lew Hartman was selling two different Amber-based T-shirts, with 250 produced of each. The first featured a white satin unicorn on a green satin shield with gold border. The second design was of a silver satin rose on a black satin shield with silver border.
Phage Press has sold a number of Amber-based T-shirt designs over the years.
