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

Congratulations to Richard Corben, 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame winner!

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A treasure from my personal collection:

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The Judges’ Choices for the Eisner Hall of Fame, announced back in January 2012, were Rudolf Dirks and Harry Lucey. The voters’ choices, announced at yesterday’s awards ceremony, were Bill Blackbeard, Richard Corben, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Gilbert Shelton.

To view all forty-nine of the posts here at RCN that (to date) have been about Richard Corben’s work, start here.

BONUS SCANS:

From The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, here’s a short Introduction to Corben’s work by Will Eisner himself:

Obviously, the copy editing and proofreading at Warren were not the best…

Comics · Fred Schrier · Here, Read · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “The Electronic Music Concert” by Fred Schrier

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From Meef Comix #2 (May 1973), here’s “The Electronic Music Concert” by under-appreciated comix humorist Fred Schrier:

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Why can’t I click on over to my favourite online bookstore and buy a fat hardcover collection of Fred Schrier’s underground comics?

Because the world isn’t arranged to please me, that’s why!

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

Connections: Frazetta (1973/74) vs. the unknown (1980)

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I don’t often buy Western paperbacks, but when I came upon the Signet Brand Western edition of Ray Hogan’s The Hell Raiser (1980) at our local Value Village, I knew right away that there was an amusing blog post in it. So I bought it. But since I don’t own the Signet edition of Flashman at the Charge with the Frazetta cover, we’ll have to make do with a scan borrowed from Davy Crocket’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West:

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Is it mere coincidence that Signet published both Flashman at the Charge and The Hell Raiser? Or was the (uncredited) artist instructed by the publisher to do a Western version of a painting, Frazetta’s painting, that had sold a lot of books for Signet in the past? The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind… the answer… is blowin’… in the wind…

Flashman at the Charge is one of the many paintings that Frazetta “improved” after he got it back from the publisher:

Nice hair.

Keywords: Flashman at the Charge, The Hell Raiser.

Art Instruction · Collage Art · Here, Read · Look Here

Look Here, Read: An intro to old-school, cut-and-paste photomontage

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At one of the local Thrift Stores a few days ago, I came across a stack of back issues of The Photo from the 1980s. Although most of the information in The Photo is out of date for those of us who have embraced the digital age, I still managed to pick out five issues that had articles and other features of interest to me. In fact, the first issue I picked up, the one that was right at the top of the pile — The Photo #22 (1981) — included an article called “Simple Montages” that I thought would be perfect to share here on RCN. One thing I noticed right away about The Photo is that the magazine regularly featured articles about how to photograph the (female) nude, which very strongly indicated to me here in 2012 that the editors circa 1981 thought the magazine’s readership was mostly men! Another thing I noticed is that, although the covers of The Photo generally featured the usual shots of athletes in action, picturesque landscapes, wildlife hi-jinks, etc., every once in a while they would feature a subject that was a little more provocative. Think of it as “fan service” for photo buffs. Or casual sexism in the service of sales, if you prefer. Either way, enjoy!

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Now I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a photograph, painting, drawing, etc., of a naked woman, or even just an image of a beautiful woman period, I wonder how much of my response to the image, if my response is positive, is due to the presence of the naked and/or beautiful woman and how much is due to the formal qualities of the image…

Could a magazine sold in drugstores in 2012 get away with a cover image like the one featured on the front of The Photo #19 back in 1981? Somehow I doubt it…

Look Here · Poladorid Pictures

Look Here: Poladroid Gallery, 08 June to 01 July 2012

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As a test of your patience, here (in no particular order) are all of the Poladroid pictures that I’ve posted to Twitter since the last time I posted all of the Poladroid pictures that I’ve posted to Twitter, including two Poladroids that I created but then didn’t post; as a “bonus,” I’ve included a snapshot of my “Krazy & Ignatz” collection, as it appears on the shelf in our living room that I didn’t convert to a Poladroid before I posted it to Twitter but instead just posted it as is:

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Art Collection · Comics · Ebay Win · Here, Read · Illustration Art · Look Here · Mell Lazarus

Look Here, Read: An original MISS PEACH Sunday strip by Mell

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In our collection of original comic-strip art, my wife and I already have several Miss Peach dailies by Mell Lazarus (see here, here, and here), but my personal grail has long been a Sunday strip from the 1960s, when Mell’s drawings of his cartoon kids were at their most expressive and his wit was always razor sharp. Well, my quest is finally complete! Because yesterday I won an ebay auction for a big, beautiful original Miss Peach Sunday strip dated 12-2-1962 with a great gag featuring Francine and Arthur. (And at a good price, which is important, because our budget for original art is currently stretched to the max!) I don’t have the artwork in hand yet, but here’s the image from the ebay auction, and though it looks pieced together from smaller scans, it is probably as good as or better than anything I could possibly produce with our little scanner/printer:

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The strip is a whopping 24 inches wide by 18 1/2 inches high, and it comes with a tissue paper overlay roughly festooned with Mell’s crayon colour notes, intended as a guide for the printer:

And you know what? At this moment I feel like I never need to buy another Miss Peach original. I have what I wanted. I’m happy. And I’m done.

Unless…

Illustration Art · J. R. Flanagan · Look Here

Look Here: Eight colour illustrations by J. R. Flanagan

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At the Thrift Shop this morning, I purchased the illustrated edition of Henry van Dyke’s The Story of the Other Wise Man published by Harper & Brothers back in the early 1920s; the book has no dust cover, but since the rest of it is in good condition, and it only cost me 99 cents, I have no complaints. Although it is alarmingly easy to crack the spines of old books like this one simply by opening them too wide, never mind flattening them out on the scanner, I feel that the binding in this instance is both sturdy enough and loose enough to survive a bit of a workout, so…

Here are all eight of artist J. R. Flanagan’s colour illustrations for The Story of the Other Wise Man, freshly steamed and pressed for the Web by yours truly:

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The Story of the Other Wise Man also includes many lovely line drawings by Flanagan, but I’ll save those for another day.

Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Steve Ditko

Look Here, Read: “They Didn’t Believe Him,” with art by Steve Ditko

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From Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #3 (April 1957), here’s “They Didn’t Believe Him,” with art by Steve Ditko — as if you couldn’t tell at a glance!

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You’ve gotta love the leer of the mermaid in the second panel of the second page. When she tells the young dreamer to be among the reeds in the morning, you know he’s gonna be there, and when says she’ll come again, you definitely believe her!