Connections: Giovanni Segantini and Barry Windsor-Smith
Category: Illustration Art
Connections: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Barry Windsor-Smith
Connections: J. Allen St. John and Jeffrey Jones
Look Here: Two Sax Rohmer Paperback Covers by J. Lombardero
Every once in a while, in my weekly rummage through the local thrift stores, I come across a few old paperbacks that call out to be purchased not for the stories, which may or may not be any good, but for the covers. That’s the case here:
Sax Rohmer, of course, is the creator of Fu Manchu, but who is J. Lombardero? He’s an illustrator, obviously, but beyond that, I have no idea.
On the same trip, I bought three original paperbacks in the “Operator 5” series (which I’d never heard of before I bought the books). Perhaps I’ll scan the covers of those for a later post. There’s one, in particular, that’s absolutely wild.
Look Here: “The Kiss” by Jeffrey Jones
Here’s a painting that sold at auction for US$7,170.00 in February of last year:
Look Here: Two Mermaid Sketches by Harvey Kurtzman (1924 – 1993)
I don’t own these; I just rescued the scans from ebay.
Look Here: “Time Lapse,” with art by Leo Duranona
The painted cover art is by Jeffrey Jones:
The above scans are from a PDF created by datajunkie. You can download the entire first issue of Weird Tales of the Macabre via the link in this post on the datajunkie blog.
Look Here, Read: “A Night to Remember” by Jeffrey Jones
Look Here: “Brer Fox Goes A-Hunting”
The following illustrations are from the story, “Brer Fox Goes A-Hunting,” which is a chapter in the book, Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox (London: Collins, 1969). The stories in Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are retold by Jane Shaw from the original of Joel Chandler Harris, and the illustrations are by William Blackhouse.
Look Here: An “Interesting Doorway” by Ronald Searle
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An “interesting doorway”? Interesting to whom? And for what reason, really? LOL!
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