An astounding use of color from the art nouveau period: Carl Strathmann — Chestnut Trees — circa 1900

In some ways we must all deal with the beast within. Berni Wrightson — Who's the Fairest of Them All? —1980

Known mostly for his faerie-world color work, Warwick Goble was also pretty adroit with pen and ink rendering. Warwick Goble — The Sea-Fairi...

This is a teaser poster for the 1936 movie, The Dancing Pirate , the third Technicolor film to be made, but true to its advertising, the fir...

A nicely vignetted drapery study by the ever elegant John LaGatta. John LaGatta — Ladies Home Journal — 1938

What a beautiful cover. Where are the modern equivalents? Scott Evans — Liberty — 1936 What a great chassis.

George Lucas — best hair beHIND the camera! Forbes — 1996

Good goggley woggely, look at the entertainment a dollar-sixty cents could buy for a kid in just one month's time, from just one publish...

This is a pretty nice cover by Mike Vosburg, who seems to be channeling a bit of Bill Sienkiewicz channeling a bit of Bob Peak. Mike Vosburg...

Back in the day, I would have bought a box of doilies if it had a Dave Stevens graphic on it. A Dave Stevens' Faye Wray rendering on a K...

One of the finest comic strip panels in the history of the medium: Hal Foster — Prince Valiant — panel detail from June 19, 1938

As if Time didn't speed along fast enough, we had to go invent speedier ways for the Old Man to drop his grains of sand. poster — circa ...

Dr. Seuss painted this "State of the World in 1931". Um, yeah . . . and . . . that must've been . . . some kinda year. Dr. Se...

I don't know what's going on here, but in my mind I'm hearing the opening chords to Thus Sprach Zarathustra . John Charles Dollm...

This painting almost looks like a scene from How to Train Your Dragon , the animated film from DreamWorks (that I really enjoyed), but it...

The days of summer are quickly dwindling away. Get out there and laze around a pond before it's too late, baby. Benner — Sous les ombrag...

No wimpy sparkling vampires here! Nosferatu The Vampyre — 1979

What a lovely effect to have a bas relief emerge from a sketch. Claude Michel, called Clodion — Relief with Dancing Maenads 1765

Now I'm not giving credence to this modern stereotyping, but it certainly showed up any number of ways in the 20th century. Judge — Sept...

I recently received this phone charm as a gift. Pretty cool, huh? I love the faerie folk.