This time of year is haunted with visions and vagaries of unholy life and moldy death, and what better image than this phantasmagoria to por...

Well, today it's snowing. But—YESterday it looked just like these two images . . . I'm telling ya . . . well at least in my little w...

Just two more John Austen drawings for now. Both of them sort of bridging between his old and his later styles. The color image is luscious ...

The 'filigree' of ornament is fascinating to study in this depiction of Scheherezade by John Austen.

John Austen was at his best with Hamlet in 1922. Here is Act IV Scene 7. Sort of astounding imagery for the time and the medium.

Another fabulous pen and ink graphic by John Austen for the 1922 Hamlet , featuring (you guessed it) Ophelia!

John Austen had a grand style when he illustrated a bee-youtiful edition of Hamlet, from 1922. His style was influenced by Beardsley and was...

Vampires are more popular than ever this year, in all formats of pop culture. For me, none rivals the persona of Count Dracula, as character...

Yes, no, I did not forget. Here is the Pogo Sunday strip that posted, I mean printed, 45 years ago 2day. Cuz this is Sunday. Kelly Sunday. ...

WWII air combat missions have not been portrayed more beautifully or crisply realistic as by Nicolas Trudgian. His work should be an inspira...

George Barr. Frontispiece for Adventures in Unhistory by Avram Davidson. 1990.

Milton's (The Masque of) Comus , a 17th century story of virtue and grace, was the last book to be illustrated by Edmund Dulac, and was ...

By request, here is the original usage of this 'blog's current header image by Willy Pogany from way back in 1916. And below that, a...

Hey there. I'm back in the studio. Here's a portion of irresistible perfume ad illustrations by Fred Packer from the 1920s. His styl...

Another week has flown by, being Sunday, Kelly Sunday again. It almost wasn't, as my super duper computer of the last 5 years bit the du...

Late in his career, Virgil Finlay did a lot of illustrations for astrological magazines, some of it mediocre, but some of it superlative. Th...

I think these character spot illustrations by Virgil Finlay for Galaxy are pretty neat, from later in his huge body of work. See, he did d...