The work of master doodler Roy Krenkel deserves master treatment and too often those tasked with representing his career for review have been timid about diving in head first. This volume is at least a colorful, but brief, immersion. There is a lot of promise in this volume but not a lot of commitment. It features a nice, broad array of Roy Krenkel's delightful drawings, sketches, color sketches, paintings, commercial art designs and glorious doodles of everything from cavewomen in various forms, and little or no attire, to science fiction rendering of other worlds. Commentary by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta are also welcome and revealing as they were both professional peers, but also Roy Krenkel's fast friends and fellow madmen.
The problem is very simple. This book is not enough. The examples used in this volume are like a teasing morsel to a starving person. We know there is treasure trove of phenomenal paintings, drawings, sketches and character studies that are being kept from sight. A three hundred page volume could not contain this man's collection. Perhaps three volumes would go a long way to revealing the genius we're all aware of.
This is beautiful hint at the legacy that is the artwork created by Roy Kenkel.