BangZoom Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Adventure (July 1935) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I love Norman Lindsay's work. (Assuming I'm reading that signature correctly.) Is that a book illustration? Yup, a Lindsey illustration for a Saturday Evening Post story. 1933, iirc. I took that picture of the original art at SD Con last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 There's no doubt about this one. Adventure (April 1935) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Yup, a Lindsey illustration for a Saturday Evening Post story. 1933, iirc. I didn't know he had ever worked for the Saturday Evening Post. I was more familiar with the ribald side of his artistic career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I was quite surprised as well -- at the Sat Evening Post illo, as I was more of his traditional oeuvre like you one posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Lindsay's output also included an Australian children's book classic: The Magic Pudding . I am certain that if the chronologies had aligned, (and the pay was appropriate) he would have been a comic book artist. Here's the frontispiece: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Both of the above scans are examples of Hugo Pratt's artwork, right? His work certainly evolved between the publication of the two stories. I can see the strong influence of Caniff in "The Crimson Sea" story but by the time he illustrated "The Big Arena" he has developed his own style. Yes, all of the interiors I've shown are by Pratt. I wanted to show how his style evolved. The use of spot blacks is perfectly suited to the medium. In some panels thre are virtually no lines at all, just openings and enclosures of black and white... Anyway, I've come across a couple more by him: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) ..and the covers to those two issues are pretty good as well: Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I don't who the cover artist is but I applaud his creativity. I love that cover. Yes, I thought you might like that one! And well spotted AJD (how's the Wings collection coming along?) Here is another in a similar vein... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Lost worlds anyone? The first is by Vic Prezio, but I would love to know who the cover artist is for the second cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) Well, here is a weekend treat I hope you will all enjoy. The book here has been on my bookshelf for many years, and was published by Studio Vista in 1975. I'm going to show a selection of truly wonderful images by book illustrators obscure and well known alike. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have over the years! Feel free to add in more images if you have them! Okay, time to get the popcorn out! Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) JESSIE M. KING Illustration to King Arthur's Tomb from Defense of Guinevere and other poems by William Morris (John Lane 1904) linky: http://textualities.net/max-begg/jessie-m-king/ Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) I'm really not that impatient. Really Edited April 16, 2011 by Duffman_Comics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) J. NOEL PATON The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won, I've won!" Quoth she, and whistles thrice. From part the seventh, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Art Union 1863) linky: http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/mors-janua-vitae-the-gateway-of-life/13510 Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) A. BOYD HOUGHTON "The african magician commands Aladdin to give him the lamp" from Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights, revised by H.W. Dulcken (Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1863-65) linky: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=278&page=1 Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) GUSTAVE DORE 'Baron Munchausen's second, but accidental visit to the moon - "It looked round and shining like a glittering island." ' From The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (Cassel, Petter and Galpin, 1866) linky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9 Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) GUSTAVE DORE Illustration for title page to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge (Hamilton Adams, and the Dore gallery, 1876) Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) AUBREY BEARDSLEY "How King Arthur saw the Questing Beast" , frontispiece for Vol. I, The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, by Thomas Mallory (Dent 1894) linky: http://beardsley.artpassions.net/ Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) WILLIAM STRANG Illustration to Death & the Ploughman's Wife, a ballad made and etched by Strang (Lawrence & Bullen, 1894) linky: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/strang_william.html Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 (edited) RICHARD DOYLE 'Triumphal march of the Elf King. This important personage, nearly related to the Goblin family, is conspicuous for the length of his hair, which on state occasions it requires four pages to support. Fairies in waiting strew flowers in his path, and in his train are many of the most distinguished Trolls, Kobolds, Nixies, Pixies, Wood-Sprites, birds, butterflies, and other inhabitants of the kingdom.' From In Fairyland, a poem by William Allingham with a series of pictures from the Elf-World (Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870). Edited April 16, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
