Words and Pictures

Meet the New Bossie, Same as the Old Bossie Willy Pogany (1882-1955) was a Hungarian-born illustrator who produced a vast, diverse body...

Heads Up! Wandering through the scrap file I came upon these three heads clipped from some mid-1950s magazines. I post them as beautiful ex...

Thar's Gold in Them Thar Digs! Back in my paperback-collecting days I amassed quite a few Dell Mapbacks. When I sold the collec...

Mino, Lia, and Piero Piero Mancini was an Italian illustrator/comic artist with an appealing minimalist style. [For the following details...

The Mystery of the Spanish Woman   In this post I don't tell you, I ask you to tell me. I am fascinated by the iconic Beautiful F...

My Favorite Star Trek Page I remember the years when I was drawing Dallas and Star Trek as a blur of lots of work, lots of frustration...

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...