That decrepit old bookstore I had wandered into one miserable afternoon became a refuge for me, eventually heading down there most Saturdays...

Above is a really low res pic that I found recently on the internet that evidently shows the end result of the sketches above it. I haven...

These drawings of snowy trees are beautiful in their simplicity.

Again, only recently have I seen the finished art for the above sketch of Vainamoinen, the chief hero of Finnish epic. Here, Gallen-Kallela ...

If I'm not mistaken, part of the iconic image of the Spirit, shown below, also appeared in the Playboy article, setting the stage for re...

I started reading Playboy when I was 13. Yes, really—reading it. Oh sure, the pictorials were eye openers and cleared up a lot of mysteries ...

These were some of the panels (to the best of my recollection) that were reprinted in the Playboy article by Feiffer. It must have been prom...

M.C. Escher (detail)

I added these images to my morgue when I was still a kid, and I have no idea where from, or who did them or anything other than the publishe...

One of the curious volumes that my father apparently acquired as an estate auctioneer...

Back in the mid 60s, I had an afternoon paper route where a truck would drop off a couple of huge bundles of papers that I had to fold and p...