Connections: Giulio Aristide Sartorio and Milton Glaser

7 February 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I posted JPEGs of Milton Glaser’s Angel Alley cover, poster, and artwork, back on 29 January 2013, and now, more than a year later, I have noticed a familiar figure in the foreground of Giulio Aristide Sartorio’s Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves (1895-1899):

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**ABOVE:** Giulio Aristide Sartorio, *Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves* (1895-1899), oil on canvas, 421 x 304 cm. Collection of Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy. Via TRANSISTORADIO.

**ABOVE:** Milton Glaser, original art for the cover of the LP *Angel Alley* (1978) by Linda Cohen.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Gervasio Gallardo · Illustration Art · Look Here · Salvador Dali

Look Here: One lovely cover with surrealistic art by Gervasio Gallardo

3 February 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Yes, once again, a book cover scanned from the library of yours truly, and hey — bonus! — this one is in nice condition:

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**ABOVE:** Lin Carter, ed., *Imaginary Worlds* (NY: Ballantine Books, 1973), with cover art by Gervasio Gallardo.

BONUS IMAGE:

From Salvador Dali on abstract art…:

Bernie Wrightson · Comics · Here, Read · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “The Touch of Gentle George,” with art by Bernie Krigstein

29 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From Real Clue Crime Stories, vol. 6, no. 7 (September 1951), here’s “The Touch of Gentle George,” with pencils and inks by the great Bernie Krigstein and script by the great unknown; the scans are from the Digital Comics Museum, an amazing online archive of free public domain Golden Age Comics, but I’ve made a number of adjustments to the levels, saturation, and size of the JPEGs, and although the resulting images are far from perfect, the DCM originals are simply far too large to post here:

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Dorothea Tanning · Fine Art · Look Here

Look Here: “The Seven Spectral Perils” by Dorothea Tanning

29 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From the portfolio “Les 7 Périls Spectraux” (Paris: Galerie Les Pas Perdus, 1950), here are scans of seven colour lithographs by the under-appreciated American surrealist painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer, Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012); the lithographs themselves are tucked safely away in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC:

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To learn more about Dorothea Tanning, who died in New York City on 31 January 2012 at the age of 101, you would do well to begin with a visit to the artist’s website, which is maintained by The Dorothea Tanning Foundation “as an introduction and tribute to Dorothea Tanning’s extraordinary life and work as both a visual artist and a poet.”

Album Covers · Book/Magazine Covers (Jones) · Illustration Art · Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones · Look Here

Look Here: CONJURE WIFE, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

25 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Took me a while to find a nice, cheap copy of Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife with “Woman fleeing from…” cover art by Jeffrey Jones, but in the summer of 2013 I got lucky… and now that I’ve finally gotten around to scanning it, I can show you what it looks like:

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**ABOVE:** Fritz Leiber, *Conjure Wife* (NY: Award Books, 1974), with cover art by Jeffrey Jones.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look There · Vic Prezio

Look Here: Two “Women fleeing from…” covers with art by Vic Prezio

25 January 201412 June 2017 RCLeave a comment

Scanned by me, just for you:

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**ABOVE:** Ruby Jean Jensen, *The Girl Who Didn’t Die* (NY: Warner, 1975), with cover art by Vic Prezio.

**ABOVE:** Dorothy Daniels, *Image of a Ghost* (NY: Warner, 1973), with cover art by Vic Prezio.

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Look Here: Three from Scholastic with cover art by Granger, by Lupo, and by Künstler

22 January 201425 April 2017 RCLeave a comment

I purchased the following Scholastic editions of three novels by Jules Verne at a community book sale last summer, and I still like the look of them, although, quite frankly, Scholastic also scores points, big time, with me for proudly displaying a credit for the cover artist on each novel’s title page. There oughta be a law, I tells ya!

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paul-granger_around-the-world-in-eighty-days_ny-scholastic-1964_ — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *Around the World in Eighty Days* (NY: Scholastic, 1964), with cover art by Paul Granger.

paul-granger_around-the-world-in-eighty-days_ny-scholastic-1964_back — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *Around the World in Eighty Days* (NY: Scholastic, 1964), with cover art by Paul Granger.

dom-lupo_the-mysterious-island_ny-scholastic-1965 — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *The Mysterious Island* (NY: Scholastic, 1965), with cover art by Dom Lupo.

dom-lupo_the-mysterious-island_ny-scholastic-1965_back — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *The Mysterious Island* (NY: Scholastic, 1965), with cover art by Dom Lupo.

mort-kunstler_jules-verne_a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth_ny-scholastic-1966 — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *A Journey to the Center of the Earth* (NY: Scholastic, 1966), with cover art by Mort Künstler.

mort-kunstler_jules-verne_a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth_ny-scholastic-1966_back — **ABOVE:** Jules Verne, *A Journey to the Center of the Earth* (NY: Scholastic, 1966), with cover art by Mort Künstler.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Carlos Ochagavia · Illustration Art · Look Here · Michael McInnerney · Peter Gudynass

Look Here: SF surrealism by Gudynass, McInnerney, and Ochagavia

16 January 201410 August 2016 RC1 Comment

More cover scans by me. Big surprise.

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**ABOVE:** Robert A. Heinlein, *The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag* (London: New English Library, 1980), with cover art by Peter Gudynass.

Larry Niven, *Neutron Star* (NY: Ballantine Books, 1971), with cover art by Michael McInnerney.

**ABOVE:** Keith Laumer, *The Best of Keith Laumer* (NY: Pocket Books, 1976), with cover art by Carlos Ochagavia.

BONUS IMAGE:

**ABOVE:** René Magritte, *The King’s Museum* (1966), oil on canvas, 89 x 130 cm. Via TRANSISTORADIO.

Heads Up! · Richard Corben

Heads Up: Corben Art Sale, 18 January 2014

13 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

On Saturday 18 January 2014 at 12:00 noon CST, thirty-one pages of original black-and-white comic art by Richard Corben will go on sale via the “Sales” page on the artist’s official website.

The sale will include ten pages from Mutant World by Strnad and Corben, eleven pages from Cage #1 by Azzarello and Corben, and all ten pages of “The Lamp,” adapted from Lovecraft by Corben and published in Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft.

All pages are drawn in Sharpie pens and Pigma pens on 11 x 17 inch Strathmore paper.

Scans of the pages are on the Corben website now for “viewing only.” Prices will be posted when the sale goes live, at which point the first person to complete the PayPal shopping cart for each page will receive that page.

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

Look Here: The Runestaff tetralogy, with cover art by Bob Haberfield

10 January 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I posted two of the Runestaff covers displayed below back in October 2013, but the other two are freshly scanned from old paperbacks that I purchased yesterday at a 60% discount from a local used bookstore that is closing its doors for good at the end of the month:

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