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Law and Chaos: The Stormbringer Animated Film Projects
Law and Chaos: The Stormbringer Animated Film Projects by Wendy Pini (1987) after the idea of doing a film of Michael Moorcocks Elric.
Free to read on Wendys homepage(see url).
Free to read on Wendys homepage(see url).
- GenresFantasyArtGraphic Novels
144 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1987
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About the author
Wendy Pini
614 books391 followersWendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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August 6, 2019I actually finished this last month, but whatever. This documents Wendy Pini's struggle throughout her late teens and early twenties to complete an animated film based on Moorcock's Elric Saga. This is very inspiring if you're an artist who beats yourself up a lot over slow-going or uncompleted projects, AND you get to see Elric's world as drawn by a young Wendy Pini.
September 11, 2023
A su modo tan interesante como el documental Jodorowsky's Dune. Salvo que hemos tenido varias versiones de Dune en la pantalla y ninguna de Elric.
August 14, 2025
Read through this during a limited-time request from my local archival collection. Filled to the brim with incredible Elric illustrations and really cool insight into making and animated film 50 years ago. Shame we never got to see this on the big screen
April 25, 2015
Like she admits herself, Moorcock said (the only time they actually met) her Elric was over-romanticized and though I agree with that statement, I like this book. It describes fledgling artist's obsession with a project, identification with a character and the (unfinished) process of transformation of that identification in the piece of art. Wendy is honest (always an important thing in autobiographical books) and detailed in the reconstruction of five years long making of animated movie about Elric which ended without completion. It is a delightful read and visual treat and over-romanticized or not, it is a pity that movie wasn't realized.
March 22, 2017
About a never-to-be-movie about Michael Moorcock's Elric, read freely on Wendy's own homepage (http://www.masque-of-the-red-death.com/) and I must say that I enjoyed it a lot even if I haven't read Elric in bookform.
I like her drawing style, both from Alverfolket/Elfquest where I discover her to this, as her use of colors and her more mystic Fantasylike clothing and style.
The story was good and the drawings was mixed with her own comments about the Project and what she thought about certain drawings and music that would fit to that pictures.
I like her drawing style, both from Alverfolket/Elfquest where I discover her to this, as her use of colors and her more mystic Fantasylike clothing and style.
The story was good and the drawings was mixed with her own comments about the Project and what she thought about certain drawings and music that would fit to that pictures.
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April 22, 2014Interesting story of an uncompleted animated movie project, together with a selection of artwork created for the movie.
The film was based onMichael Moorcock's Elric saga, which I have been meaning to re-read. When I do I suspect I will see this artwork again in my head.
The film was based onMichael Moorcock's Elric saga, which I have been meaning to re-read. When I do I suspect I will see this artwork again in my head.
December 19, 2009
Law and Chaos: The Stormbringer Animated Film Projects by W. Pini (1987)
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