Above, one of my drawings of Michael Wm Kaluta, as he looked in 1985 For the next few days, I'd like to celebrate Michael W. Kaluta'...

W. Herbert Dunton did more than a few paintings of a Gibson Girl in cowboy hat. Some were rodeo images, some were just girls on horseback, v...

Incredible, outrageous, mind-blowing, phantastic images are delivered to your inbox every few days at: http://hubblesite.org/ We are the Uni...

I love coming across connections like this. Like so many artists, this Mexican calendar artist, Jose Bribiesca, found inspiration in Andrew ...

Spring has finally sprung in our neck of the woods. The glacier in our back yard has officially melted. This cover has seen better springs b...

Distinctly Russian in flavor and seasoned with 1920s stylism, Boris Zvorykin's illustrations for Firebird & Other Stories are  a sav...

Many of us are familiar with the paintings of the American realist Edward Hopper, but his commercial graphic work is not so well known. Pers...

This is my favorite cover by J. Scott Pike. Um, um, gee I think it's the ONLY cover by J. Scott Pike. Well, at least I've never seen...

Forty-five years ago today: Kelly took old doggerel and made it into new doggerel: 1955

An interlude of sorts. I'm guessing the stylings of Bobby London.

Another vision of the 60s. Veruschka's 5 minutes in Blow-Up made many of us want to be fashion photographers. This golden girl was part...

Jean Shrimpton, that is. Here as 'Flora', she was a vision of the 60s.

Kudos to The Sun, and any periodical that uses quality imagery, with NO BLURBS on the cover. It used to be that every periodical had its own...

And my favorite astronaut photo, of Anna Fisher, 'reaching for the stars' after 9 days in space, back in the 1980s. I never thought ...

Speaking of Pirate Gals, they used to be all the rage. In some quarters they still arrrrr. Gil Elvgren

I've had the sad experience of emptying out my mom's household of 20 years after moving her to a nursing home. One of her framed pic...

When I was a boy (man I say that a lot these days), when I was a boy you could get a big handful of comics for less than a buck. And getting...

Do you know how hard it is to shoot down an enemy fighter? In DC war mags they did it every day, sometimes several times a day. Every other ...