File:Conan god in bowl.png

This is a reduced / cropped digital scan I made of a widespread Conan sketch / painting by artist Mark Schultz. I believe that given the reduced size of the image, web resolution colors and encyclopedic usage, this image may be utilized for Wikipedia under Fair Use. Note that this same sketch / painting, albeit at a much larger size, may be found on Google, Amazon.com and public websites promoting / illustrating the work of Mr. Schultz; in particular, his Conan illustrations for Del Rey.

After carefully browsing the Wikipedia copyright categories, I have selected "a single panel from the interior of a single issue of a comic book" as being the closest to what this image qualifies as. More correctly, this image is a panel not from a comic book, but a digital scan from The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, an illustrated novel containing the unedited Conan stories of Robert E. Howard.

Feel free to update the licensing category I selected for this image if you believe there is a more appropriate Wikipedia copyright category.

• The image is a popular depiction of the subject matter in question.
• The image is used here for encyclopedic purposes and in no way limits the ability of the artist(s) to market their product.
• The image is presented as a low resolution copy of the original.
• The image was released to the media via the internet to promote the original product in which it appeared.
• The image is arguably significant and was created by a notable artist: Mark Schultz.
• No free alternative can exist given that Conan and Hyboria are trademarked and thus protected.

This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate: the issue of the comic book in question; the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question; or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate: the scene or storyline depicted, or the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question; where no free alternative exists or can be created, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Conan_god_in_bowl.png true

• 2007-04-30T19:55:23Z Cydebot (Talk | contribs) (1750 bytes) (Robot - Renaming non-free template "Comicpanel" per [[Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates]].)
• 2006-12-17T11:50:35Z Flask (Talk | contribs) (/* Fair use rationale */)
• 2006-12-09T17:59:35Z Flask (Talk | contribs) (/* Fair use rationale */)
• 2006-12-08T13:05:11Z Flask (Talk | contribs) (This is a reduced / cropped digital scan I made of a widespread [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] sketch / painting by artist [[Mark Schultz (comics)|Mark Schultz]]. I believe that given the reduced size of the image, web resolution colors and encyclopedic usage, this image may be)
• 2006-12-08T13:05:11Z Flask (Talk | contribs) (400x550) (177155 bytes)