Words and Pictures

The Great Postum Face-Off In my last post I presented a Noel Sickles Postum ad. I mentioned having once seen an alternate version. I am gra...

A Postum Posting This is the only tearsheet I own from the "Paul Arthur" Mr. Coffee Nerves adventures. A fine one it is! Caniff ha...

In Glorious WunderColor! All my comics-reading life I've had a love-hate relationship with George Wunder. His was a nearly impossible as...

When Art Was His Oyster Here is the earliest signed artwork I've found by legendary illustrator Albert Dorne. It appeared in Good Housek...

The Need for Speed In 1986 I was hired by an L.A. ad agency to draw four comic strips advertising an indy action film called Jake Speed. T...

A Code Wind Bloweth The new issue of Roy Thomas' ever-fascinating magazine Alter Ego has a lengthy article about the effects of the Com...

Pinter, Painter It's clear from looking at my blog that I tend to like "classical" style illustrators: lots of realistic rende...