ELEGANT COMICS FROM A BYGONE ERA

Fifty years ago, some comic strips presumed readers had a level of literacy, as well as a patience for drawings, that today's readers la...

LEE CONREY (1883-1976)

 Few people today remember  Lee Conrey, but he drew thousands of lurid illustrations for  The American Weekly in the 1920s and 1930s.   The...

NEW BOOK ABOUT ALBERT DORNE

Just in time for the holidays,  Auad Publishing (which brought you last year's Robert Fawcett monograph ) has released the first monogr...

HERCULES TRIUMPHS OVER THE DUMPSTER

Some archaeologists believe that the oldest existing illustr a tion of a fictional work on paper is this drawing of Hercules fighting a ...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 42

The remarkable Harry Beckhoff drew this tiny picture of a man scared by a black cat in 1913. What a marvelous design. Many artists would fee...

BELIEVING IN A RED PIXEL

The computer gaming industry was launched using just a few primitive elements. Two or three colored pixels were all that was necessary to co...

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF HOWARD PYLE

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was the father of American illustration.   His powerful compositions (such as these horizontal stripes across a back...

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF E.F. WARD

These unpublished sketches are by the illustrator E.F. Ward (1892-1990). In an era before photography became convenient, illustrators filled...