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Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs Poignantly Hilarious Bullet Point Outline of his failures

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TweetEdgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote “A Princess of Mars” which forms the basis for Disney’s “John Carter”, was famously “selling pencil sharpeners” at the time he wrote this, his first […]

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May 10, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

Kellen Lutz and Spencer Locke are the new Tarzan and Jane

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TweetFrom Hollywood Reporter The Twilight star and Resident Evil actress will topline what will be a performance-capture 3D adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs jungle story. Kellan Lutz, co-star of […]

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May 4, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

Thomas Bertonneau: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Masculine Narrative

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TweetAs many of you know, I’ve got my head down writing a book that is now tentatively entitled “Hollywood vs Mars”, about the recent John Carter debacle and what path, […]

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May 4, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1930 on “The Purpose of Entertainment Fiction”

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TweetI just love this article, and most of the others that Burroughs wrote. His sly self-effacement is, for me, a cover for the fact that he knows he’s one up […]

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May 3, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

A Beautiful Scan of one of ERB’s favorite pieces of Barsoom art – St. John’s Thuvia

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TweetBob Zeuschner saw my previous post about the J. Allen St. John “Thuvia” and was good enough to send me a really good quality scan, and for that I’m immensely […]

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May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

Cool John Carter Fan Art: A Woola Cake!

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TweetWoola Character from Disney’s John Carter created by Michelle Wibowo of Michelle Sugar Art http://www.michellesugarart.co.uk

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April 27, 2012April 28, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

Roy Krenkel’s Evocative Cover Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs

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TweetA disciple of J.Allen St. John, Franklin Booth, William Walcot and Norman Lindsay, Roy Krenkel was responsible for vividly evocative cover art for the ACE 1960’s Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks. […]

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April 24, 2012October 27, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs Trivia Game — Fun!

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TweetSomeone on the Facebook John Carter Sequel Group found this Edgar Rice Burroughs Trivia game which is pretty fun stuff.  I took the one for A Princess of Mars and […]

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April 17, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

New John Carter Fan Art Gallery

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TweetThe fans at the Facebook Group “Take Me Back to Barsoom! I want John Carter to have a sequel!” are continuing to make fan art that celebrates John Carter. This […]

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April 11, 2012October 27, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

John Carter: A Just Fight, and a good cause

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Tweetfrom StevenEGordon.blogspot.com — by Steve Gordon A just fight…  …and a good cause. I know it’s been quite awhile since I last blogged and I will blog again to bring you […]

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April 10, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

Scott Dutton on the Robert K. Abbett Ballantyne Barsoom Cover Art

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TweetFrom Catspaw Dynamics: In 1963, Robert K. Abbett was commissioned by Ballantine Books to paint the covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series. 1965 saw the addition of John Carter of Mars as the 11th […]

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April 8, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

John Carter Files Interview and Art Gallery: Jeff Doten, Barsoomian

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Tweet Jeff  Doten is one of the true stalwarts of the Edgar Rice Burroughs universe.  He studied anatomy and animation at the Alberta College of Art and Design and zoology […]

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April 2, 2012April 2, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

Just how popular were Edgar Rice Burroughs "John Carter" Novels? Think Harry Potter and then some…..

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TweetIn 1945 more than 30,000, 000 copies of his novels in 58 languages and dialects made him the most widely read author on earth. In the July 14 edition of […]

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April 1, 2012April 1, 2012 Michael Sellers Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs

An Evening with Danton Burroughs, Keeper of the Flame for Edgar Rice Burroughs

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TweetAs an “Army brat” teenager I truly fell in love with the fantastic tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories, which in those days were being reissued on paperback by ACE […]

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March 23, 2012March 23, 2012 Michael Sellers Andrew Stanton, Danton Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Barth, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter, and the "Masculine Narrative"

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TweetIn this, the season of John Carter, I have found my thoughts occasionally returning to the year 1976 when I was a graduate student in a seminar on the Modern […]

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March 22, 2012March 22, 2012 Michael Sellers Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs

WETA Sponsors “Writer’s Quest with Edgar Rice Burroughs” Writing Contest

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TweetWETA, the PBS Station in Washington, DC, is sponsoring an Edgar Rice Burroughs writing contest that runs through May 4, 2012.  Here is the announcement — please help spread the […]

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March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 Michael Sellers A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Our Documentary: The Life and Mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs

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TweetAs some of you know, John Carter Files, while a fan site for sure, happens to be run by a fan whose also an indie film-maker. We have had fun […]

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March 16, 2012August 9, 2015 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Most Read, Tarzan, The Tarzan Files

Chicago Tribune: John Carter, star of Mars and movie screens, was born in Chicago

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TweetEdgar Rice Burroughs fueled the imaginations of many with his pulp characters, like Tarzan and John Carter By Jeff Long, Chicago Tribune reporter:  As John Carter rides into movie theaters […]

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March 9, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

Official John Carter Crew T-Shirts Now Available — Very cool stuff

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TweetSeveral years ago Andrew Stanton commissioned Last Exit to Nowhere to manufacture the official John Carter Crew T-Shirts and now they are available online.  We think these are truly cool […]

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March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 Michael Sellers Andrew Stanton, Art

Video from Discovery News: Edgar Rice Burroughs Still Inspires, and the science was good!

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March 9, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

Den of Geek: Does John Carter Break the Edgar Rice Burroughs Movie Curse?

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Tweetby Terence Bowman for Den of Geek: Adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels haven’t fared well in the past, so can Andrew Stanton’s John Carter break the cycle? Terence finds […]

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March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 Michael Sellers A Princess of Mars, Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Manila Bulletin John Carter Review: “Finding a cause to love in John Carter”

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Tweetby Rowena Joy A. Sanchez. MANILA, Philippines — It might seem that the science-fiction film “John Carter” is derivative of classics such as “Star Wars” and “Avatar,” but a trip […]

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March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Carter Files Presents a documentary film: “The Life and Mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs”

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TweetHere’s some news some of you may know a bit about — but has not been officially announced until now:  The John Carter Files guys who cut the now somewhat […]

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March 1, 2012March 2, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

Video: “John Carter Primer” by Larry Ketchersid

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TweetSFSignal has put up a nice page with a “John Carter Primer” by Larry Ketchersid .  Larry had previously done a wonderful text and images version of  the John Carter […]

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February 27, 2012February 27, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, GoBarsoom Media Campaign, John Carter News

John Carter, the action hero who inspired the young Ronald Reagan

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TweetFrom the National Review: To a certain ten-year-old boy living in Dixon, Illinois, in 1921, the town’s modest public library was a revelation, a “house of magic,” as he would […]

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February 26, 2012February 26, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter News

Another cool piece of John Carter Fan Art

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TweetThis nice piece of fan art comes from Damian Johns of Big Picture Studios in the UK and we love it! Andrew Stanton tweeted about it — that’s how we […]

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February 22, 2012February 22, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

John Carter Mondo Poster Rocks

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TweetThis poster, which you get a copy of if you go to the midnight IMAX showing on March 8/9, reminds of the imagination that lies at the base of John […]

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February 21, 2012February 21, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

Very nice John Carter Fan Poster –check it out

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TweetThanks to Karin Neva for finding and clearing our posting of this nice piece of fan art for John Carter.  It’s by A13XANDER at www.A13XANDER.deviantart.com and please go there to check out […]

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February 20, 2012February 20, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

Edgar Rice Burroughs and “The Damphool Species of Narrative”

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TweetElsewhere on this site there is a raging argument going on between two otherwise sane and reasonable guys over whether a) Andrew Stanton has silly ideas, b) Edgar Rice Burroughs […]

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February 10, 2012February 10, 2012 Michael Sellers Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Picacio illustrates “Under the Moons of Mars”

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TweetDisney’s John Carter should steer some moviegoers to the source material of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who in addition to Tarzan’s adventures also wrote Carter’s escapades on Mars in his classic Barsoom series. […]

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February 9, 2012February 9, 2012 Michael Sellers Art

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