This painting captures my mood and state of mind, as it must for all people who are under the overwhelming pressure of deadlines. Hang in th...

Whenever I'm feeling tired and overwhelmed, all I have to do is spend a few minutes with images that catapult me into the rarified atmos...

In my line of work, with constant deadlines, I have daily races with the old man and it's all I can do to finish each race in a tie. And...

Wonderful golden age images have resurfaced here and there for modern usage. Here, a favorite image, Arthur Rackham's 1909 Jewels From t...

This is an odd little number that appears to date back to 18th century Italy by an undetermined artist, seeming to be a documentary survey o...

When the movie Salomé, starring Rita Hayworth and Stuart Granger, came out in 1953, it must have seemed like hot stuff in that cold war, Mc...

This is the charming photo used on the cover of the 1983 Perigee book, The Family of Woman , a "world-wide photographic perception of f...

Boy, if I was a kid in 1921, this cover would make my heart go pitty-pat. What am I saying — it makes my heart go pitty-pat now! Maud & ...

The last two posts I admitted to buying comics just for their covers. In just those two, that was $2.25 each. And I did that a number of tim...

Another cover by Chiodo , and below that, its prelim sketch. Joe Chiodo — Marvel Fanfare #56 — 1991 Joe Chiodo — preliminary drawing — 1991

Truth be told, I have purchased many a comic book just for the cover. No dis intended for the creative folks working on the interiors, but m...

This is a case where the horse looks better more than Barrymore. Don Juan — movie poster — 1926

Milton Caniff was sort of a boyhood hero of mine, though I look back on his prodigious output of work and admit that, while some work is tru...

Thinking of John Severin had me leafing through some old materials and I came across this interview with him in the old Mirk-Wood Times fro...

I'm very sad to hear of the passing of John Severin, part of the legendary pantheon of comic book artists. I had some nice encounters wi...

An interesting modern illustration that hearkens back to older times: Vania Zouravliov — Fate — 2007 Look for a beautiful book of Zouravli...

Imagine that. One simple average panel for Hal Foster . . . Hal Foster — Prince Valiant — panel detail —8-3-1969

I was reading over the weekend that the U.S. military is amending its policy to allow women to serve in more combat oriented duty than prev...

This is quite an explicit postcard for its time of around 1900. I would imagine the postal carrier would raise an eyebrow or two or three as...

Light and airy, ephemeral and elusive, the apparitions of Gilbert Williams' paintings hint of overlapping universes. I don't have th...