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Look Here: Seven drawings from 1973 by Noel Sickles

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First published in National Geographic Magazine, vol. 144, no. 6 (December 1973), the following drawings by Noel Sickles of “Scorchy Smith” fame were commissioned by the magazine’s editors to accompany an article by David Lewis entitled “Alone to Antarctica”; they were scanned for display here at RCN, by me, from a copy of the magazine that I bought at a local thrift store:

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Notice that the two largest drawings have a seam about two-thirds of the way from right. This is because the pictures were spread over two pages. Lazy bum that I am, I have done nothing to try to “fix” them.

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Heads Up: Original art for sale by Jess/Jeff Johnson

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“[S]kewered on a spit of material need just like everyone else,” artist Jess Johnson is having a sale of art that she produced in the mid-1990s under the name Jeff Johnson. Earlier this morning, I purchased page six of the story, “Gruesome Charlie in ‘No Erect Penises,'” which was published in 1995 in issue #4 of the Fantagraphics anthology series, Zero Zero, and is #23 on The Comics Reporter’s list of “1000 Things to Like about Comics” (posted 23 March 2005). Although I don’t have the page in hand yet, I do have the images from the sale page:

If you think you might like to add a page by “Jeff Johnson” to your own collection of original comic art — at a very reasonable price, I might add — check out Jess’s Etsy shop, “The Door.”

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Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie mysteries with art by Tom Adams

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More covers, freshly scanned, by me, from books in my personal collection:

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Look Here: Four Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

Happy Halloween 2012 from RCN! — Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie, with art by Tom Adams

Look Here: Two Raymond Chandlers with cover art by Tom Adams

Keywords: A Murder is Announced, Nemesis, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, After the Funeral.

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Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

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More covers scanned from “classic” mystery paperbacks languishing unloved and unread in the collection of yours truly:

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Look Here: Four Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

Happy Halloween 2012 from RCN! — Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie, with art by Tom Adams

Look Here: Two Raymond Chandlers with cover art by Tom Adams

Keywords: The Pale Horse, Destination Unknown, A Caribbean Mystery, Ordeal by Innocence.

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Look Here, Read: “I Married for Fun,” with art by Bill Draut

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From Teen-Age Brides #2 (October 1953), here’s “I Married for Fun,” with art by Bill Draut, whose stylistically restrained, thoughtfully staged contributions to Romance comics in the early 1950s have aged far more gracefully than many other works of the period:

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Look Here, Read: “Teen-Age Temptress,” with art by Bill Draut

Look Here, Read: Cover art by Lee Elias, story art by Bill Draut

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Look Here: Two paperback covers with art by Barron Storey

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Earlier this morning, I purchased the above paperbacks with cover art by Barron Storey from a local thrift store for a buck a piece. When I arrived home with my haul, I noticed that I had received an email from a past contributor to RCN — see Look Here, Read: “The Believer,” reconstructed by Rotomago — who had sent me scans, front and back, of THE EXACT SAME EDITION (!) of The Lord of the Flies that I had just purchased along with a JPEG of a cover with art by Chris Bachalo that apparently was intended as an homage to Storey’s iconic painting. To his credit, Rotomago had noticed the connection between the two covers on his own, but when he checked online, he found that the well-known comics site, Robot 6, among others, had beaten him (and me) to the punch. Still, I do think the connection is interesting, so I’ve decided to post the JPEG of Bachalo’s Avengers Arena cover here at RCN:

The short critique of the Bachalo’s cover that Rotomago sent to me along with the JPEG is pretty much spot on, so rather than write something myself, I’m just going to quote him:

Some current super-heroes addicts seem to find this homage very cool. Personally I’m not so enthusiastic. I find this cover representative of trendy contemporary illustration, in form and spirit, in its undecided soft aseptic lines and colours, and in its poverty of imagination, but that’s surely a question of taste.

Barron Storey’s online presence includes a blogspot that functions as an archive of old journal pages and a tumblr that Storey is in the process of filling with new journal pages.

Rotomago is a cartoonist as well as the creator of the site, Alberto Breccia Bibliografía, which, although it hasn’t been updated in a while, remains a valuable resource.

P.S. I actually own a drawing by Chris Bachalo that I’ve been meaning to scan and post, but for some reason, I’ve just never gotten around to it. Maybe this year…

P.P.S. I’ve used my own scans of Storey’s Lord of the Flies cover rather than the scans that Rotomago sent to me by email — my copy of the novel is in like-new condition; Rotomago’s copy is faded from wear and slightly damaged on the back — but I must say, if I hadn’t coincidentally just purchased my own copy, it’s Rotomago’s scans that you’d be viewing right now.

Keywords: Fahrenheit 451, The Lord of the Flies.