Roy Krenkel was one of the seven wonders of modern fantasy art (I'll let you know who I think the other six are some other time) (I know...

Look out, here comes Mr. Snarly again: Comic strips! Don't get me started about the huge gulf between comics of yesteryear and those of ...

Here's the snarly old man again: Used to be that paperback books were really interesting . . . and really cheap! I haven't bought a...

Something, something, try as she might. I musta missed a session in Bible studies class— I woulda remembered this'n about The Dream of t...

Oliver Herford has been called America's Oscar Wilde. He was a humorist illustrator, cartoonist and writer, creating primarily in the ea...

This is a drawing with the unwieldy name, Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spea r. 'In book four of Paradise Lost , John M...

MORE pesky stuff floating around my image morgue. I remember as a teen being mesmerized by actress Ewa Aulin and looking forward to seeing h...

'Brahma, says Hindu tradition , created the Universe from a golden egg. First he made the waters and in them put a seed. It grew into an...

This is a fanciful image that can weave seductive daydreams for me. Imagine a vast library and this might be but one chamber, and these are...

It's been 6 months since I told Joe that I'd post more Bob Peak work 'soonish'. Well . . . you know how it goes sometimes. J...

Georges Jules Victor Clairin was a French painter and illustrator, working in the heady days of the Art Nouveau movement. Like Mucha, Clairi...

This is another case of rescuing some images from a book that was falling apart and had been thrown away: Willy Pogany's Watercolor Less...

Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel are forever linked through their decades of work and friendship, inspiring each other on to create their bes...

To quote from a previous post of mine: Have you ever seen the Teenie Weenies , the tribe of little people created by William Donahey several...

No matter how dated Rolf Armstrong's subjects may look, I still get lots of inspiration from his technique to bring to my pastel drawin...

I'm tied up all day Friday in a meeting, so I'll upload tomorrow's post tonite. Two posts ago, an anonymous commenter asked (I t...

In the really old days of the early 20th century, kids didn't have comic books. Sure they had dime novels and such, but they also had r...

Some golden age illustrators dwell in the moon-lit shadows of appreciation rather than the rosy sunshine bask of others. Frank Papé (pronou...