Here are three more covers with art by Richard Powers, scanned (as usual) by me from paperbacks in my personal collection:
Happy Birthday, Richard Corben!
Richard Corben is 72 years old today. And to the delight of his many fans, he continues to draw and paint with undiminished enthusiasm and skill. Now if only Corben would allow Fantagraphics (or anyone else who would do a proper job of it) to publish a complete hardcover collection of his underground and self-published comics!
Rock on, Gore. Rock on.
Connections: Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa… Mona Lisa
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Autumn in the Queen City…
Today is the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. I went for a walk along Wascana Creek with my wife after breakfast and took three snapshots with my ancient Canon PowerShot A560 camera before the battery died. The images are ho-hum, but — whatever! — here’s what autumn looks like, right now, where I live:
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Connections: Malcolm S. Kirk and Jeffrey Jones
Earlier this week, I purchased a random selection of nine National Geographic magazines from 1967 and 1969 from a local thrift store. A few days later, as I was flipping through volume 135, number 4, from April 1969, I noticed an image by writer/photographer Malcolm S. Kirk that I knew I’d seen, in part, before. Here’s the comparison:
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The last day of summer…
Fall for 2012 begins in the Northern Hemisphere tomorrow, 22 September, at 10:49 am EDT, which means that today is the last day of summer… so get outside and enjoy it while it lasts…
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How can I be nostalgic for a place I’ve never visited?
Out of Context: “She’s most definitely my doppelganger.”
Look Here: Ellery Queen shadowbox covers, post 3 of 3
What follows is the final group of four paperbacks from the Signet series of Ellery Queen novels that I have in my personal library:
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The novels were published in the early 1970s by The New American Library of Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario. The scans are my own.
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Look Here: Ellery Queen shadowbox covers, post 2 of 3
Here, as promised, is the second of three posts devoted to the Signet series of Ellery Queen mystery novels that appeared in the early 1970s. I have twelve of the novels in the series in my collection. I posted my scans of the first four yesterday. And I’ll post the final four tomorrow.
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The oversized props really do lift the concept for those covers to a whole new level of wacky.
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Look Here: Ellery Queen shadowbox covers, post 1 of 3
I have twelve of the paperbacks in the Signet reprint series of Ellery Queen mystery novels that appeared in the early 1970s, published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario. What attracted me to the series was the puzzling low-budget editorial decision to tie the books together visually with cover photographs — the photographer is uncredited — of individual women in various costumes (and various stages of undress), holding various symbolic props, mostly oversized, and standing in what I would describe as multicoloured shadowboxes. Unfortunately, I don’t have all of the books that appeared in the series, but since I really don’t have any intention of hunting the rest of them down to complete my collection, I’ve decided to go ahead and scan the covers of the books that I do have. So here, for your viewing enjoyment, is the first group of four, presented in order of publication, with eight more covers to follow, also presented in groups of four, so stay tuned for that:
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