Stuff that's been hanging on the fridge.

As I was preparing this, my daughter looked over my shoulder and said, "Mm, not his best work". She's right, but, still . ....

I forget what I was going to say about this post.  It was on the tip of my tongue . . . TullioPericoli — From A to Z — ca 1986

Oh, I love the comics from the old days. This beautiful splash page by Gene Fawcette has it all: strange adventure, murky monster, dashing ...

Faeries come in all shapes and sizes . . . from Johnny Gruelle's  My Very Own Fairy Stories , 1917

It's always a pleasure to see work by Johnny Gruelle, he of Raggedy Ann and Andy fame — wonderful fairy tale author and illustrator of ...

In moving our home, I've been going through more boxes of my mom's and dad's. It's a perilous journey, finding a path throu...

I don't know of an illustrative purpose for this Art Nouveau ink and watercolor rendering — it's probably 'just' a framable...

Excellent treatment of shadows of lace . . . Edwin Georgi — Cosmopolitan illustration

Of the early Weird Tales magazines, I feel that Hugh Rankin was the most interesting illustrator. I'd love to know more about the man. ...

Ah, each evening, to surrender to sweet embraceable night. Gustave Moreau — Night

As a species of animal, the human race is born of, and rooted to, the earth—yet with our eyes fixed upon the stars.   Still, many of us...

Pictorial photographer Victor Keppler worked for all the slick magazines and ad agencies in the '30s, '40s and '50s. His il...

Jules Erbit — 1940s

I love the faux military designs of Ralph Lauren that he also brought to the 2012 US Olympic Team. This design is from earlier than that ru...

This is one of the drawings that I bought from Gil Kane himself, at the time he was creating a lot of Superman material for DC. It's an...

These three characters were ALways mistreating each other over many years, so it was a breath of fresh air to have the charm of music bring...

This is a beautiful rendition of a ghostly host on the march. See, the idea here is that the lady in white can see the apparitions and they...

For all his quirkiness, I really miss Carl Sagan — his enthusiasm, his optimism, his writing, his showmanship, his vision, his Cosmos. ...

Last post, there was a comment from ToB that reminded me of one of my favorite character renderings by Nick Cardy, back at the tail end of...