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ABOVE: Milton Glaser, original art for the cover of the LP Angel Alley (1978) by Linda Cohen.
Look Here: ANGEL ALLEY album cover, poster, and original art by Milton Glaser
Support BETTER THINGS via Indiegogo
The documentary, Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones, is complete, but as co-writer/producer/director Maria Cabardo notes in the introduction to her new Indiegogo funraising campaign, “The challenge now is to find the funds to repay these people [who have graciously loaned their skills and time to the project over the past few years] and bring the film to the widest audience possible and share the story of Jeffrey Catherine Jones and his art.” But that’s not all. If Cabardo meets her fundraising goal of $30,000, she will not only be able to pay her outstanding pre- and post-production debts, forthcoming marketing and advertising expenses, and ongoing production legal services and fees, but also will be able to complete a companion DVD of supplementary material, including cut interview footage with Jeffrey Catherine Jones himself, to accompany the feature.
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If you would like to help Maria to take her completed documentary to the masses, or you would simply like to receive a copy of the forthcoming DVD or one of the many other rewards Maria is offering at various contribution levels, click here to check out her Indiegogo fundraiser. Unlike her previous Kickstarter campaign, which did not reach its fundraising goal and thus did not provide any money to the project — Jones fan that I am, I sent the money I had pledged anyway, no strings attached, and I’ve just contributed again, which means I’ve personally given a hundred and fifty bucks to the documentary — I say, unlike her unsuccessful Kickstarter, Cabardo’s Indiegogo fundraiser is a “flexible funding campaign,” which means that Maria will receive ALL of the funds contributed by Thu 28 Feb 11:59PM PT, and is obligated to deliver all of the perks/rewards, regardless of whether the rather ambitious goal of $30,000 is met or not.
Out of Context: “I was talking about my HAIR — not the twins!””
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Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie mysteries with art by Tom Adams
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
Look Here: Four more Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams
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
Look Here, Read: “I Married for Fun,” with art by Bill Draut
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
Out of Context: “I’m going to get out of this rut!”
Look Here, Read: Another Western romance with art by Louis Zansky
From Western Love Trails #8 (January 1950), here’s “The Schoolmarm from Silver Forks,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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I posted Zansky’s kissin’ cover for Western Love Trails #8 two days ago.
For more stories illustrated by Zansky, check out the Louis Zansky category here at RCN.
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.
Out of Context: “You DRINK! Soon you be our QUEEN! You rule — we obey!”
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