{"product_id":"hannes-bok-original-art-6-1-2-x-5-1-2-boks-iconic-mouse","title":"Hannes Bok Original Art - 6-1\/2\" x 5-1\/2\" Bok's Iconic Mouse","description":"\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003ccenter style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e6-1\/2\" x 5-1\/2\" thin paper mounted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e Bok's iconic  mouse, line drawing in marker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003eCorrespondence from Bok often featured his 'Mouse' next to his signature, and Frank Dietz, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003ea co-founder of New York Science Fiction Society\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e and founder of Lunacon, sported a tattoo mouse designed by Bok himself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38;\"\u003eAmerican artist and illustrator Hannes Bok painted more than 150 covers. He was as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e After a heartbreaking childhood and a simple high school education rounded out with art classes, the auto-didactic, renowned illustrator we would come to remember as  Hannes Bok (Wayne Woodard)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e found his way in the art and pulp world thanks to the friendship of a young and brave Ray Bradbury. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e In the Summer of 1939, Bradbury, with borrowed money and an armful of Bok’s work,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e headed to the World Science Fiction Convention, and proceeded to impress WT’s editor Farnsworth Wright with Bok’s work - it debuted in Weird Tales by 1939.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e In 1939 he had moved to New York to continue a long and productive relationship with Weird Tales (his work  appeared consistently until 1954)  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eHis illustrations appeared in Amazing Stories, Cosmic Science Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Imagination, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eMarvel Science Fiction, Other Worlds, Startling Stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eStirring Science Stories, Uncanny Tales,Unknown, as well as countless books of fantasy and science fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style='box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn 1953 Bok and Ed Emshwiller shared one of the inaugural Hugo Awards for science fiction  with a tie for best Cover Artist -  Virgil Finlay winning that year for  best Interior Illustrator.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"Heartwood Books and Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44007428817007,"sku":"RW-HB-3","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/1291\/4287\/files\/57_ebb5a8bd-da1b-44e8-a4e3-1a7d6f13a98e.jpg?v=1766508563","url":"https:\/\/heartwoodbooksandart.com\/products\/hannes-bok-original-art-6-1-2-x-5-1-2-boks-iconic-mouse","provider":"Heartwood Books and Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}