Sorry, I need to suspend posts for a couple of days. We've had a death in my wife's family.

It would appear that I'm continuing the theme of women with swords, but really, it's just a coincidence . . .   Karel Thole I don...

Continuing a theme of women with swords . . . As pointed out by a viewer, the Conan book with the cover by Sanjulian was profusely illustrat...

This Film Fun cover is a recent post by Jack over at http://enochbolles.blogspot.com/ , "a web log dedicated to the art of Enoch Bolles...

Manuel Sanjulian's illustrative work in the 70s and 80s was powerful and dramatic and helped sell a lot of books and magazines. He was c...

It's another Kelly Sunday. The days and weeks just roll on by, don't they? How many weeks since this strip appeared in papers 45 yea...

A magazine ad for a George Petty exhibition. It's an old magazine, so don't try going to that address and expect to see any Pettys.

A 1994 serigraph by Melanie Taylor Kent, um, celebrating the animated comic book style of Batman, incorporating nearly every major element a...

 Such a lovely lovely poster, promoting an exhibition of work by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen.

The fabulous Black Canary by the fabulous Alex Toth. I miss seeing new work by Toth.

I think Roy Krenkel was a man who felt out of time and place (as many of us do) and used his art to transport himself. That he ended up tran...

More vintage sheet music.

Music sheets are wonderful sources of period graphics. This art by Rebel Stanton, an artist whose work is not easy to find.

The Prophetess Libuse by  Karel Vítězslav Mašek , painted in 1893.

I'm such a sucker for exotic travel posters. Artist: von Arenburg

Ah, if only the movie was as good as the poster. A Richard Amsel beauty.

Whatever one might think of Disney's 1990 Dick Tracy movie, there is no doubt of the quality of the production art. Very evocative of 30...

Another great print from my trove of prints and posters from the old days of Chicago. Another one of my favorites. This has a label on the b...

Another Herbert Draper painting for your scrapbook, Pearls of Aphrodite . If you look down in the shadows of the foreground you'll see a...

From a photography magazine of the 50s, a lovely pin-up of Anita Ekberg by photographer Jack Strager evidently won the Pygmalion Award. Love...