10 Luis Royo Paintings Used as Heavy Metal Cover Art
10 Luis Royo Paintings Used as Heavy Metal Cover Art
Luis Royo is the most prolific cover artist in Heavy Metal‘s history, and our current issue, the Horror Special, again features a Royo painting on the front. Royo’s first appearance in the pages of Heavy Metal happened in the November 1981 issue, and his first cover was the October 1983 issue:
Heavy Metal, October 1983, cover art by Luis Royo
Here are 10 Luis Royo paintings that have been used as Heavy Metal covers—in their original state, lacking (alas) our snappy logo. For more information on Royo, visit his official site, luisroyo.com.
Many of these issues are still available; visit https://shop.heavymetal.com/ to see what we’ve got.
Painting by Luis Royo used as May 1985 cover of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Winter 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1991 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of March 1993 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of 1997’s 20 Year Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Summer 1997 Horror Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of September 1998 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of January 1999 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of the 2001 Summer Poster Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
About Heavy Metal
First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine, the world’s foremost illustrated magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past, present, and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal Magazine was the first publisher to bring European legends like Mœbius, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Enki Bilal, and Pepe Moreno to the U.S. while showcasing non-mainstream American superstars like Richard Corben, Berni Wrightson, Arthur Suydam, Vaughn Bode and Frank Frazetta. The magazine continues to showcase amazing new talent along with established creators. Heavy Metal Magazine features serialized and standalone stories, artist galleries, short stories in prose and interviews. Recent creators have featured Grant Morrison, Stephen King, Kelley Jones, Bart Sears, Tim Seeley and Kevin Eastman. With new issues on the horizon, Heavy Metal promises to boldly go where no magazine has gone before. Explore ancient secrets, forgotten worlds and savage futures…experience Heavy Metal.
Join us at www.heavymetal.com
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyHeavyMetal/
On X: @HeavyMetalInk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal
About Heavy Metal (film)
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.
Its soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others.
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10 Luis Royo Paintings Used as Heavy Metal Cover Art
10 Luis Royo Paintings Used as Heavy Metal Cover Art
Luis Royo is the most prolific cover artist in Heavy Metal‘s history, and our current issue, the Horror Special, again features a Royo painting on the front. Royo’s first appearance in the pages of Heavy Metal happened in the November 1981 issue, and his first cover was the October 1983 issue:
Heavy Metal, October 1983, cover art by Luis Royo
Here are 10 Luis Royo paintings that have been used as Heavy Metal covers—in their original state, lacking (alas) our snappy logo. For more information on Royo, visit his official site, luisroyo.com.
Many of these issues are still available; visit https://shop.heavymetal.com/ to see what we’ve got.
Painting by Luis Royo used as May 1985 cover of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Winter 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1991 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of March 1993 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of 1997’s 20 Year Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Summer 1997 Horror Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of September 1998 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of January 1999 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of the 2001 Summer Poster Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
About Heavy Metal
First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine, the world’s foremost illustrated magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past, present, and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal Magazine was the first publisher to bring European legends like Mœbius, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Enki Bilal, and Pepe Moreno to the U.S. while showcasing non-mainstream American superstars like Richard Corben, Berni Wrightson, Arthur Suydam, Vaughn Bode and Frank Frazetta. The magazine continues to showcase amazing new talent along with established creators. Heavy Metal Magazine features serialized and standalone stories, artist galleries, short stories in prose and interviews. Recent creators have featured Grant Morrison, Stephen King, Kelley Jones, Bart Sears, Tim Seeley and Kevin Eastman. With new issues on the horizon, Heavy Metal promises to boldly go where no magazine has gone before. Explore ancient secrets, forgotten worlds and savage futures…experience Heavy Metal.
Join us at www.heavymetal.com
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyHeavyMetal/
On X: @HeavyMetalInk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal
About Heavy Metal (film)
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.
Its soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others.
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10 Luis Royo Paintings Used as Heavy Metal Cover Art
Luis Royo is the most prolific cover artist in Heavy Metal‘s history, and our current issue, the Horror Special, again features a Royo painting on the front. Royo’s first appearance in the pages of Heavy Metal happened in the November 1981 issue, and his first cover was the October 1983 issue:
Heavy Metal, October 1983, cover art by Luis Royo
Here are 10 Luis Royo paintings that have been used as Heavy Metal covers—in their original state, lacking (alas) our snappy logo. For more information on Royo, visit his official site, luisroyo.com.
Many of these issues are still available; visit https://shop.heavymetal.com/ to see what we’ve got.
Painting by Luis Royo used as May 1985 cover of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Winter 1989 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of November 1991 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of March 1993 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of 1997’s 20 Year Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of Summer 1997 Horror Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of September 1998 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of January 1999 issue of Heavy Metal magazine
Painting by Luis Royo featured on cover of the 2001 Summer Poster Special issue of Heavy Metal magazine
About Heavy Metal
First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine, the world’s foremost illustrated magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past, present, and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal Magazine was the first publisher to bring European legends like Mœbius, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Enki Bilal, and Pepe Moreno to the U.S. while showcasing non-mainstream American superstars like Richard Corben, Berni Wrightson, Arthur Suydam, Vaughn Bode and Frank Frazetta. The magazine continues to showcase amazing new talent along with established creators. Heavy Metal Magazine features serialized and standalone stories, artist galleries, short stories in prose and interviews. Recent creators have featured Grant Morrison, Stephen King, Kelley Jones, Bart Sears, Tim Seeley and Kevin Eastman. With new issues on the horizon, Heavy Metal promises to boldly go where no magazine has gone before. Explore ancient secrets, forgotten worlds and savage futures…experience Heavy Metal.
Join us at www.heavymetal.com
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyHeavyMetal/
On X: @HeavyMetalInk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heavymetal
About Heavy Metal (film)
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.
Its soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others.
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