Prince Buckethead

The ultimate Snow White DVD has come out, but if you don't want to spend the money on it, you can read the story right here for free. This is the Sunday comic strip adaptation that played in the funnies during the winter of 1937—38 for twenty weeks, drawn by Hank Porter.

What a great time to be a kid.

Prince Buckethead

Prince Buckethead

Prince Buckethead

Understated

A restored ultimate DVD has been released for Disney's Snow White, quite a breakthrough for animation when it first came out (understatement). It was a difficult undertaking (understatement) for the studio, inventing the processes and techniques on the fly. Three years earlier they made a Silly Symphony short—The Goddess of Spring—which was a dress rehearsal of sorts (understatement) for animating 'realistic' human figures. Here is a model sheet from that short:

I love model sheets of any kind!

Diosa del Fuego

My other favorite Mexican calendar painting by Armando Drechsler, Diosa del Fuego (Goddess of Fire) from 1952, one of my favorite years as well.

Xiuhcoatl

One of my two favorite Armando Drechsler calendar paintings:

Xiuhcoatl—1942

The Temple of Karvul

One of my favorite artists of the high-tide years of Heavy Metal was/is Paul Kirchner. He brought an underground-comix flavor to Euro-comix surrealism. I don't know if Kirchner was a fan of Fred Schrier, but this beautifully drawn little 3-pager is Schrieresque, and I mean that as a sincere compliment.

A Rib-Tinkler

A Kelly Sunday, a Kelly Sunday, a Kelly Sunday. Yes, believe it or nut, it's a Kelly Sunday from 45 years ago . . . TODAY!

Princess with a Puma

If I wasn't always scrambling to make a living, always facing deadlines, I'd have more images to any given post. As it is, I'm lucky to have time to post one image here or there, hopefully at least daily.

So here is one of my favorite 'pin-up' artists, Armando Drechsler, a German painter transplanted to Mexico in the 1920s. I've got more, but I've also got deadlines. Later.

Princesa Con Puma—1942

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Raise the Barr

For some reason I receive more comments emailed to me than posted to the blog, and I received a number of them requesting to see more of George Barr's illustrative work for Jack Vance's The Dying Earth, published by Underwood/Miller in 1976.

Well, OK then.

Raise the Barr

Raise the Barr

Raise the Barr

A Favorite Craft

One of the great illustrative painters of our time—Kinuko Craft:

Vibrant, Alive & Full of Color

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696—1770), Venetian painter and printmaker, may have lived and worked in the REALLY old days, but his work is anything but moldy or dusty. Vibrant, alive and full of color, Tiepolo's paintings have been an inspiration for many a modern artist/illustrator. Roy Krenkel credited him (as well as many others, of course) as an influence in his work. 

Woman Satyr

Another Woman Satyr

A Baccante, a Satyr, and a Nymph

Sorceress Giving Counsel

Apollo and Daphne