Visions of the White Wolf - An Interview with Michael Whelan

If you enjoyed this chat with Michael Whelan, you may be interested in our interview with Michael Moorcock - LINK BELOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wMZeIueTc&t=380s

My father's name was Michael Whelan. I bet Dad's namesake loves that the French for flair, style--"elan"--is in our name. I have long admired his work--beyond brilliant. --Kevin Whelan

Thank you for this, I've been wanting to hear Michael Whelan's talk about his work and his life since I saw his work as an aspiring artist. His advice towards the end really clicked with me.

Awesome show guys. It's always a pleasure to listen. Informative, to the point, fun.

By the way, his experience with the psychic have extraordinary parallels with those of the late Michael Crichton. In 1978, while living in London and working working on the edit of his terrific crime caper The Great Train Robbery, he visited several psychics at the the London Society for Psychical Research. The Harvard educated MD approached the whole subject as a complete sceptic, until...I won't spoil it for you or your viewers who can read about the events he experienced in London Psychics in his marvellous book of personal essays, Travels.

Thanks for acknowledging my comment- found him very modest and humble- two qualities often apparent in great artists. I should have added that Vision of the White Wolf is very apt. Whelan is the Anglicized form of the old Irish clan name O'Foalain, "foal" being the Irish for...wolf. It is believed that the earliest Irish families were descended from animals and the Whelan's from wolves. How cool is that? Perhaps you would let MW know. Interestingly, the wolf is the only animal that will return a human's gaze; even birds of prey are terrified of humans stating directly at them. Keep up the good work - you've struck a very original cultural seam with your podcast. Like a wolf in a forest it will run and run😅

Great interview! What a wonderful humble guy. More Cock needs to publicly apologize for what he did to that original. The fact that he's never reached out to spend time with the artist who is responsible for the cult phenomena of his stories is appalling. Everyone knows, and loves, Eric from Melbourne because of those covers.