Words and Pictures

Bob 'n' Boone I have only one (issue #2) of the five issues of Pat Boone, an oddball DC comic from 1959. Today when people thi...

Some Kind of a Man Paul Chadwick, Tom Kinkade, and Jim Gurney in a Polaroid reference shot for a forgotten illustration. In the da...

Willy Pogany, 1882-1955  A Longer Look at Willy Pogany After my last post a friend wrote to say he'd been familiar only with Willy ...

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...