Look Here: Four “Carter Brown” covers by Robert McGinnis

9 August 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Scanned from the mouldering vintage-paperback library of yours truly, here are four “Carter Brown” covers by Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee Robert McGinnis (1926 – ), everyman’s favourite pulp-paperback cover artist:

robert-mcginnis_the-wind-up-doll_signet-1964 — **ABOVE:** Carter Brown, *The Wind-up Doll* (Signet, 1964), with cover art art by Robert McGinnis.

robert-mcginnis_had-i-but-groaned_signet-1968 — **ABOVE:** Carter Brown, *Had I But Groaned* (Signet, 1966), with cover art by Robert McGinnis.

robert-mcginnis_blonde-on-a-broomstick_signet-1966 — **ABOVE:** Carter Brown, *Blonde on a Broomstick* (Signet, 1968), with cover art by Robert McGinnis.

robert-mcginnis_blonde-on-a-the-rocks_signet-1971 — **ABOVE:** Carter Brown, *Blonde on the Rocks* (Signet, 1971), with cover art by Robert McGinnis.

First interesting fact about McGinnis: his preferred medium for his cover paintings wasn’t oil, or watercolour, or gouache; rather, it was, and still is, egg tempera. Second interesting fact: McGinnis seldom drew from life but instead took photographs of models (etc.), projected them onto the painting surface, and traced the resulting images, clarifying the forms where necessary, and elongating and adjusting the limbs and features according to his distinctive sense of proportion and beauty. McGinnis very briefly demonstrates his working methods in a DVD entitled Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer, which is not a painting video at all but rather a documentary overview of McGinnis’s career as a commercial artist and painter.

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Look Here: Two more terrific covers by Richard Powers

23 July 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I bought these two paperbacks with covers by Richard Powers on Thursday morning at “Poor Michael’s Bookshop, Art, & Cafe” in Onanole, Manitoba, just south of Riding Mountain National Park, along with several increasingly-hard-to-find paperbacks with Robert McGinnis and Paul Lehr covers that I’ll post another time and a delicious cup of dark-roast coffee, black, no sugar. Actually, I have quite a few paperbacks from the fifties and sixties with McGinnis covers that I’d like to post. It’s just a matter of finding the time to scan them and type the captions…

richard-powers_destiny-doll_berkley-1975 — **ABOVE:** Clifford Simak, *Destiny Doll* (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Richard Powers.

richard-powers_path-into-the-unknown_dell-1968 — **ABOVE:** Judith Merril, ed., *Path into the Unknown* (New York: Dell, 1968), with cover by Richard Powers.

To view all five of the covers by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.

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Look Here: Four first-rate covers by Jeffrey Jones

23 July 20109 February 2020 RCLeave a comment

I purchased the following Andre Norton paperbacks with covers by Jeffrey Jones on Monday from a small shop in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. I found the shop totally by accident. My wife, our son, and I were en route to Dauphin, Manitoba, but since we were ahead of schedule and had some time to kill before lunch in Yorkton, we decided to drive around a bit and see what stores were open in the downtown area. We went up and down a couple of streets, and then we noticed a shop called “Thrifty Mama’s” that had a display of books in the window. Being a trio of bibliophiles, we couldn’t resist checking it out — and discovered that at least half of the floorspace in “Thrifty Mama’s” is dedicated to used books, mostly paperbacks. Score!

Now, I know I’ve posted the cover of Uncharted Stars before, but the book this time around is in much better condition. In fact, all four are really glossy and tight. And they all sport excellent Jones covers. Enjoy!

BONUS IMAGE (added 04 October 2013):

A more recent acquisition:

Keywords: Postmarked to the Stars, Sea Siege, Uncharted Stars, Sargasso of Space.

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Connections: (Jones vs. Jones?) vs. Williamson

17 July 201011 August 2016 RC5 Comments

The cover of The Three Faces of Time, which I bought yesterday at a used book store in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is uncredited, and no signature is visible, but it sure looks like the work of Jeffrey Jones, circa 1968-69, to me.

Click Image to Enlarge — **ABOVE:** Jack Williamson, *Seetee Shock* (New York: Lancer, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

jeffrey-jones_the-three-faces-of-time_ny-tower-1969 — **ABOVE:** Frank Belknap Long, *The Three Faces of Time* (New York: Tower, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

UPDATE (24 July 2010):

This just in: reader Patrick Hill points out in the comments section of this post that Jones informed him ten years ago that he (Jones) swiped the pose of the main figure in Seetee Shock and The Three Faces of Time from “H₂O World,” with story by Larry Ivie and art by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. Here’s the ocular proof:

williamson-krenkel_h20-world_creepy_n1p10_1964 — **ABOVE:** Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel (artists), first page complete, "H₂O World," Creepy #1 (1964), page 10.

williamson-krenkel_h20-world_creepy_n1p10_1964_detail — **ABOVE:** Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel (artists), first page detail, "H₂O World," Creepy #1 (1964), page 10.

If nothing else, the above news should make Maroto fans smile.

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Connections: Howard Pyle and Reed Crandall

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reed-crandall_piracy-v1n3-feb-mar-1955 — **ABOVE:** Reed Crandall, cover, *Piracy* #3 (February-March 1955).

Piracy, indeed…

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Connections: Norman Rockwell vs. Myron Fass

26 June 201011 August 2016 RC3 Comments

I’m not a big fan of Norman Rockwell, but as I was browsing through an old romance comic, what to my wondering eyes should appear but more fodder for an irregular feature here at RCN entitled “Connections.”

The story, “Powerhouse of Deceit!,” from Dream of Love #9, is uncredited, but GCD identifies the penciller and inker as Myron Fass. The comic was published in 1958, but the story, apparently, is a reprint from Great Lover Romances #3, Toby Press, 1951 series.

(Hey, trivia fans! Do you know who was art director and comics editor at Toby Press in 1951? Here’s a hint: I mentioned it in a previous post. That’s right: it was none other than the creator of the comic strips “Miss Peach” and “Momma,” Mell Lazarus, though I think he still spelled his first name “Mel” at that time.)

Norman Rockwell’s famous illustration, Strictly a Sharpshooter, is from 1941.

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Look Here: More paperback covers by Paul Lehr

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Somebody out there likes Paul Lehr’s work; I know this not because people post to tell me they like it but because the Ragged Claws Network blog stats show regular visits to the Paul Lehr category. So, on with the show:

paul-lehr_easy-prey — **ABOVE:** Josephine Bell, *Easy Prey* (New York: Ballantine, 1959), with cover art by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_candle-in-the-sun — **ABOVE:** Robert Wells, *Candle in the Sun* (New York: Berkley, 1971), with cover art by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_three-trips-in-time-and-space — **ABOVE:** Larry Niven, John Brunner, and Jack Vance, *Three Trips in Time and Space* (New York: Dell, 1974), with cover art by Paul Lehr.

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Look Here: Three great paperback covers by Richard Powers

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richard-powers_the-burning-world — **ABOVE:** J. G. Ballard, *The Burning World* (New York: Berkley, 1964), with cover art by Richard Powers.

ditko_the-teddy-bear_amazing-adventures-v01-n03_August 1961

richard-powers_the-jewel-hinged-jaw — **ABOVE:** Samuel R. Delany, *The Jewel-Hinged Jaw* (New York: Berkley, 1978), with cover art by Richard Powers.

All three of the above covers were scanned from the library of yours truly.

BONUS LINKS:

David G. Hartwell on Richard M. Powers

The Richard M. Powers Cyber Art Gallery, curated by C. Jerry Kutner

The Powers Compendium

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Look Here: Four more SF covers by Paul Lehr

20 May 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Notice that the publication dates of these covers by Paul Lehr, scanned just this morning directly from the library of yours truly, range from 1969 to 1980. I’m sure some people think of Lehr as a bit of a one-trick pony, but with this little group of four, one gets a nice sense of Lehr’s quiet versatility as an image maker, in a nutshell, as it were. Oddly enough, Frazetta later painted an image, entitled Torment (1986), of a guy impaled on a curvilinear structure that would not look out of place in the future city hinted at in the Gunner Cade cover — which perhaps tells you all you need to know about Frazetta’s attitude to modernity — but Lehr’s flamboyantly attired, bubble-helmeted hero is about as far from the half-naked, heavily muscled, hard-charging Frazetta archetype as one can get. Yes, the Glory Road and Power of Blackness covers are fairly typical Lehr productions; however, with the cover for The Centauri Device, Lehr charges boldly into John Berkey territory, and acquits himself very well indeed.

paul-lehr_gunner-cade-ny-dell-1969 — **ABOVE:** C. M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril, *Gunner Cade* (NY: Dell, 1969), with cover by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_glory-road_ny-berkley-1970 — **ABOVE:** Robert A. Heinlein, *Glory Road* (NY: Berkley, 1970), with cover by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_the-power-of-blackness_ny-berkley-1976 — **ABOVE:** Jack Williamson, The Power of Blackness (NY: Berkley, 1976), with cover by Paul Lehr.

paul-lehr_the-centauri-device-ny-bantam-1980 — **ABOVE:** M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (NY: Bantam, 1980), with cover by Paul Lehr.

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Look Here: Four Comics Magazine Covers by Jeffrey Jones

18 May 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

The numbers and dates of these covers by Jeffrey Jones are included in the file names. They’re displayed here in order of publication, earliest first, latest last, 1969 to 1980.