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Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Gene Szafran · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: Three more covers with art by Gene Szafran

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I often think that I should be more systematic in presenting my cover scans, but then again, because I’m always buying new stuff, I think it might be easier for you simply to remember to check out the various categories and tags at the bottom of each post if you see work that you like; there might just be more by the same artist on view in other posts:

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Szafran’s Downward to the Earth cover art (1971) clearly owes a lot to the “magic realist” airbrush paintings of the German artist Paul Wunderlich; the other two covers, however, owe nothing at all.

Keywords: Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg, Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel, Clarion II edited by Robin Scott Wilson.

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Bob Pepper · Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Samuel R. Delany

Look Here: Four more covers with terrific art by Bob Pepper

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More covers today with strong art by an underrated illustrator whose work I’ve featured before here at RCN:

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To view all of the covers with art by Bob Pepper that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here and scroll down the page.

Keywords: Deryni Checkmate by Katherine Kurtz, Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany, Flesh by Philip Jose Farmer, The Continent Maker and Other Tales of the Viagens edited by L. Sprague de Camp.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here

Look Here: Two plantation novels with cover art by the great unknown

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The paintings on the covers of Mulatto and Weep in the Sun by Jeanne Wilson are obviously by the same artist, but that artist, unfortunately, is uncredited, and I can see no evidence of a signature either, which is too bad, because the artist’s skills as a draftsman and painter are considerable and I am kind of curious to know how his or her career played out after 1979, the year these paperbacks were published:

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Yes, I do own both novels, and yes, the scans are mine, but no, I haven’t read them, and no, I won’t be reading them any time soon.

Because the truth is, the plantation-titillation genre — not the usual appellation, I know, but close enough — holds no attraction for me.

Comics · Heads Up! · Here, Read · Look Here · M. K. Brown

Heads Up: A career-retrospective collection of cartoons and comics by M. K. Brown

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Coming in Spring 2014:

The publisher’s description:

What DO women want?

They might want to float into the sky while hosting a brunch party. They might want a couple of handsome cops to come over and get rid of a snake problem. They might seek a doctor’s treatment for “wise-ass disease” or fantasize about revenge and forgiveness at the dentist’s office. They might want to sing the White Girl Blues and dance the White Girl Twist.

One of the funniest cartoonists of the last four decades, M.K. Brown has accumulated a body of work long savored by aficionados but never comprehensively collected — until now. Women, What Do We Want? is the first retrospective collection of Brown’s cartoons and comic strips from the National Lampoon from 1972-1981, as well as other magazines such as Mother Jones, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Playboy; and her comics from underground publications like Arcade, Wimmin’s Comics, Young Lust, and Twisted Sisters.

Her cartoons combine a penchant for the absurd with the gimlet observational eye of Roz Chast. Brown satirizes suburban anxiety and ennui by turning it upside-down and sideways, and her slightly grotesque yet lovable characters are perfectly captured in her restless pen line and delicate jewel-tone watercolors.

In these pages: Read instructions for the use of glue, making a pair of pants, home auto repair, coping with chainsaw massacres, and jackknifing your big rig. Travel around the world to witness the giant bananas of Maui, strange sightings in Guatemala, camel and a “Saga of the Frozen North.” Learn about love ’round the world, among eccentric suburbanites, and in a “Condensed Gothic” romance. “Another True-Life Pretty Face in the Field of Medicine” introduces Virginia Spears Ngodátu, who (with a bit of a name change) would go on to star in “Dr. Janice N!Godatu,” Brown’s series of animated shorts that appeared on The Tracy Ullman Show alongside the first incarnation of The Simpsons. Aliens, old people, pilgrims, mermen, monitor lizards, tiny floating muggers and other weirdos feature in Brown’s side-splitting single-panel gag strips.

And what about men? Don’t worry — you’ll meet Mr. Science and his pointless experiments; “Earl D. Porker, Social Worker,” who converses with household items and forgets the cat food; a man whose head is a basket of laundry; and others.

Black & white with 16 pages of color.

Details:

Format: Softcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Fantagraphics (February 25, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606997084
ISBN-13: 978-1606997086

Although Fantagraphics has not yet announced the exact contents of the book, I am sure it will include the following strip, which was first published in the March 1986 number of National Lampoon:

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