Intriguing

A magical mystical painting by the intriguing Janny Wurts.

Eurasian

A Gil Elvgren print, probably my favorite of his work, probably because it's less of a pin-up, more of a fine study. It looks similar to Andrew Loomis' style of painting.

Gil Elvgren — Eurasian Girl

Hey Look! Steranko Covers!

It was such a treat, back in the late 60s, to come up to a comic spinner in the drug store and find comics with Steranko covers. Of course it WAS still the Silver Age, so there would also be covers by Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Gil Kane, Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Infantino, on and on (SWEET Sixties). But covers by Jim Steranko were more rare than the others and they always compelled me to buy the comic without even looking inside. And sometimes it was a double treat to find Steranko art inside, such as the X-Men comic shown below.

Steranko was a huge fan of the golden age, and he brought much of those qualities, with improvements, to us monkeyboys of the 60s.

A Caucus Race and a Long Tale

Mabel Lucie Attwell — 1910

Charles Robinson — 1907

Charles Robinson — 1907

Maria Kirk — 1907

Disney Studio — 1951

John Tenniel — 1865

Gertrude Kay — 1923

Arthur Rackham — 1907

Mabel Lucie Attwell — 1910

Harry Rountree — 1908

Charles Robinson — 1907

Sonya

I know I'm jumping all over the place, but once again I'm on deadline, short on time, and I'm pulling up stuff that's already scanned and ready to go. Such as this Stephen Fabian rendering of Red Sonya, from Howard's Shadow of the Vulture.

Covers That Never Were

These are some cover idea roughs by Wally Wood from circa 1950 that never made it to print. Boy, if they had, I'll bet Overstreet would have em overpriced.

The Pool of Tears

John Tenniel — 1865

Charles Robinson — 1907

Gwynedd Hudson — 1922

Margaret Tarrant — 1916

Millicent Sowerby — 1907

Milo Winter — 1916

A E Jackson — 1914

Disney Studio — 1951

Alice Woodward — 1913

Addendum to Last Post

I cannot beLIEVE that it's been just about a quarter of a century since Mazzucchelli drew Batman Year One. I remember buying half a dozen copies of this issue, just because of the cover. Well, the inside was pretty good too.

And below is the cover from last post the way it should be seen—pure and iconic.

The Batman Persona

The Batman persona as designed similarly, yet distinctively different by 3 of his great delineators.

Neal Adams

David Mazzucchelli

Jim Aparo

Minus Five

Well, OK. Popular demand (well, two of you—good enough for me) asks for the image of the young lady be posted, minus 5. Thanks a bunch to you guys who helped me figure out my little 5 problem. Um, here she is.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland film is only the latest of many many many pictorial adaptations of the amazingly resilient Lewis Carroll fever dream of a book.

Next to the Bible, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been cited as the most widely translated, quoted, and admired book in the world. Over the years, dozens and dozens of artists, each in their own way, have illustrated the bizarre and wondrous story.

I'd like to show, in installments, some of these illustrators' results—mixed together, but in sequence of the story, chapter by chapter, twelve in all.

As I say, in installments, with posts of other subjects interspersed, so that none of us get overwhelmed (or bored) with too much Alice. But I think it will be fun to see all these styles come together. I'm going to caption the artists, but not put them in the labels. The only label will be the title, so that ultimately all the chapters will be compiled together.

Arthur Rackham—1907

Gwynedd Hudson—1922

Above, this is SO my philosophy.

Mabel Lucie Attwell—1910

Bessie Pease Guttman—1907

Margaret Tarrant—1916

Millicent Sowerby—1907

Thomas Haller Buchanan—1993

No one ever said Alice HAD to be blonde

Disney Studio—1951

John Tenniell—1865

Millicent Sowerby—1907

Disney Studio—1951

Mabel Lucie Attwell—1910