Les Sports D'Hiver

This Roger Broders poster is deceptively simple. For being as stylized as it is, it is entirely believable as a scene.

Zenobia

Another of Warwick Goble's beautiful illustrations for Chaucer's poetical works.

Zenobia

Snow Fun

Perfect for a December day, this is "Snow Fun", painted by Carl Barks.

This 'blog is nothing if it's not eclectic.

Copyright Disney, of course.

Nimphidia

This is the frontispiece for a 1906 edition of Nimphidia, the Court of Faerie, a gouache painting by Thomas Maybank. The book featured the poem of a faerie company, written in 1627 by Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare, no less.

Sense of Temperature

It's remarkable how pushing some paint around a surface can create mood and atmosphere and, in this case, even a sense of temperature. Even though it's not officially winter, this is what today feels like around here.

Ray Sandberg—A Winter's Afternoon—1988

1515 Rhinocerus

No time to write. I just think this is such a cool print of a rhinocerus by Albrecht Durer.

A Group of Gobles

A group of some more Warwick Goble illustrations for Chaucer's poetical works:

The Meeting in the Wood

Alison

'In the name of Christ,' cried this blind Briton, 'give me back my sight'

Constance and her child leaving Northumberland

'An Elf Queen will I verily love'

'Tain't No Secret

Don't forget, over on Whirled of Kelly, it's the holiday season, Walt Kelly style.

Classic Imagery

Check out this image manipulation experiment by Joe Bethancourt, using two of the images from the previous post of Herbert Draper sketches. Classic imagery with ethereal tonal values and cool aged paper. Thanks Joe for sending this over.

Prospero

Ah, another Herbert Draper masterpiece and his studies, going for baroque:

Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities

Study for 'Prospero'

Another study for 'Prospero'

Study for Juno's cloak for 'Prospero'

Study of a naiad for 'Prospero'

The Fairer Human Bean

Good girl art in the world of big foot cartooning, that was a facet of Howie Post's the DropOuts. As evidenced by the previous post and this one, Howie definitely had a fondness for the fairer human bean.

A Post Post

This post of a comic by Howie Post is purely nostalgic for me. I bought this comic off the spinner in the winter of '68, weighing in just at the tail end of the Silver Age, according to the reckoning of some, just before the demise of the 12 centers.

Anthro was edited by Joe Orlando, who also edited some of the other non-mainstream titles (I'm only guessing here, so don't yell at me if I'm wrong—maybe BatLash, Angel and the Ape, the DC mystery titles?). Anyway Carmine Infantino was the DC editorial director at the time, and all the titles at that time seemed fun and enticing to read. I've gotten rid of most of those comix over time, but for some reason I kept this one.

Howie Post had a style that some would not enjoy, being anything but Kirby, but to me seemed refreshing. Around that time he was also a newspaper cartoonist, drawing The Dropouts, of which I will show some samples soon.

A Post Post 2

a Post Post 3

A Post Post 4

A Post Post 5

The above ad was of course drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, the redoubtable Superman/Lois Lane/Supergirl artist.

Holiday Season, Kelly Style

Any Walt Kelly fans not already 'tooning in to Whirled of Kelly are missing some good stuff as we're moving into the holiday season, Kelly style.

Wot th'?!

Norman Lindsay's compositions are always intriguing, many times setting off the what-the-heck-is-going-on-here response. Entitled Enter the Magicians, a prep drawing for an etching from 1927, I have to ask, what the heck is going on here?

Hey, that was a rhetorical question there, I don't really need to know.