The Pictorial Arts
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Ghosts and Shades of Hades

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While we're on the subject of Flint, which I will return to any number of times, here is an interesting group of drawings he did, lettin...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Art of the Matter

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I wish I had come across this photo the other day when I posted the riveting image of Maruja the Strong. But I didn't, I just found it i...
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The Artist's Studio

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The Artist's Studio , 1988, by Bruno Surdo, founder of the School of Representational Art, in Evanston, Illinois.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Lady Kathy is a Noble Prize

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Going a little further back in time to June of 1940— Smash Comics #11, one more Abdul the Arab by Bob the Powell.
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Following the Dictates of His Heart

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Some more Abdul. It's a clipped out story—so this might be from Smash #20, but I'm not sure.

A Man of Few Words

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Just to carry on a little theme from the previous post, here is Abdul the Arab from Smash Comics #23, June of '41 by Bob Powell, hiding...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A Horse, My Sheikdom for a Horse

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Hearken back, my children, to the days of yore (1926), when it was every woman's desire to be kidnapped and carried off in the midnight ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Maruja

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Many friends of this blog are fans of the art of the study sketch, as I certainly am. One of the masters of that art was, of course. Sir Wil...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

The Golden Lion

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Of course, the most classic rendition of Tarzan and the Golden Lion comes from J. Allen St. John, the patron saint of Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Flexing Artistic Muscle

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This beautiful ink rendition by Roy Krenkel is of course based on the original painting by PJ Monahan for Tarzan and the Golden Lion , for t...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Blonde Venus

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Stunning and clever art direction: 1932 The "swipe file" reference:
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Nostalgic Covers

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Nostalgia Press was aptly named, as it certainly was in the forefront of reprinting golden age material not seen in years at that time. Yet ...
Friday, July 16, 2010

In Delirium

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You can see here that the Nostalgia Press editions of Prince Valiant had their own way of colorizing the reprints. They weren't horrible...
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Companions in Adventure

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I've been a fan of Hal Foster since I was eight years old. Before even being aware of comic books, I was in love with the Sunday comics ...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Heroic Exploits

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Here's a dynamic golden age splash page, floating around all by itself in the ol' comix chest. It's by Alden McWilliams, I belie...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Sorcery

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Some more eye candy, this by Clyde Caldwell, entitled Sorceress.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Way It Was

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Back when I was buying regularly from the comic book stores (many many moons ago), I was collecting cool promotional posters from the comics...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

And Now for Something Completely Glitzy

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Bob Peak cover illustration for the Academy Players Directory of 1981, for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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A Young Woman Sleeping

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You must hopefully know by now that I'm not just a fanboy for the panel arts, but a fanboy for art of the ages. As a teen student at the...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

AH!

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In a few days, I'll get back to posting some older old stuff, but in the meantime I promised some eyecandy, and who better to turn to fo...
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My name is Thom Buchanan. I'm an artist and photographer. People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years. I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.
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