Friends, it's with a heavy heart that I must take a leave of absence from blogging. My deadlines are such that I've been painted int...

Probably cuz he's about to blow all his deadlines . . . At least some of these books must've sold well enough to get not only a new...

There are some images that perplex me, and all I can do is rub my eyes, and go "What th'—?!" . . . Daniel Adel — Walt Disney A...

Pretty nice for a pulp illustration . . . Lawrence Stevens — Famous Fantastic Mysteries December 1947

Frank Papé was an illustrator whose work is intriguing for the eye, and yet he's not as famous as a number of his contemporaries. Papé ...

Is this blog eclectic enough for you? An early, conventional, and beautiful illustration by Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt — Serenade — for Jug...

Speaking of Wally Wood, this is a Mad page written by Ernie Kovacs, the mildly strange comedian of yester-year. That first panel about J. Da...

Wally Wood was such an amazing artist. He could take any assignment and make it work. Imagine trying to fit all the things into one page tha...

By special request from a couple posts ago about Neal Adams, here is a reposting of a cover that has special meaning to me in that it was on...

Mythology was so alive in the 18th century, a vibrant and colorful subject for artists to entertain their patrons with. Rococo artist Tiepol...

Scott Gustafson is a painter/illustrator that gives luminous life to fairy tales, legends and nursery rhymes, successfully making the work s...

The same was true for me of anything by Neal Adams during the 1970s. I would buy anything by him, and usually in multiples. Neal Adams/Dick ...

I've already confessed that in the past I have been superficial and wasteful by buying some comics JUST for their covers. Back in the ...

An informative obituary for John Severin ran in today's Denver Post, with a really nice photo of him, provided by the family. " Cop...

This painting comes awful close to infringing on that 'painter of light' guy (oh geez, did I violate his trademark by using those wo...

Never has squalor and degradation looked so cozy and appealing as in this opium den illustration by Doré. Gustave Doré — from London, a Pilg...