Friday, May 22, 2009
Mysterious Pleiades
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The Pleiades, over the centuries, have exerted a strong influence on the human imagination, stretching from realms of goddesses to alien civ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Saga
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Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan was another high-water mark for the 70s, and he only got better as time went on. His drawings for the Conan...
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Saga
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Fine Art of Lithography
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Back when lithography was a fine art, 1914, a poster for the Savoy Theater in London, by Graham Robertson
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Book House Promotional
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This is part of a lovely 1930s promotional pamphlet for The Book House for Children, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller. Many of the illustratio...
Eisner's P*S Girl
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In 1951, as Eisner was leaving the Spirit behind him, he created Connie Rodd, a sex kitten serious about Army equipment. It was her job to k...
Eisner's P*S Girl
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Above and immediately below, art obviously by Murphy Anderson Below, the concept was imitated in Vietnam, with a young girl named Kimmie, ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
More Ford
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HJ Ford was a classic artist, delineating classic fairy tales. Above is an example of the book cover binding typical of his work and his era...
More Ford
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Above, I see an influence on Kuniko Kraft.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Spirit Cast
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A really nice *crisp* portrait of the Spirit cast.
Eisner 'Spirit'
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Also from the Harvey Spirit #2, 1967, this was a new story (at the time), bridging continuity from the 40's to the 60's. Eisner'...
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End of the Octopus?
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Harvey Spirit
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Harvey's Spirit #2 was a wealth of really good Eisner stuff. The story below of Plaster of Paris threw me for a loop when I first saw it...
Harvey Spirit
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The final page of #2, shown below, was a preview page of the next issue, and boy, I couldn't wait. Well, wait is all I could do, cuz #3 ...
Kelly Sunday is Here Again
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45 years ago this morning: So, I'm gearing up to post Kelly's Mars sequence and it's going to be a lot of panels, and an awful l...
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