A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
top left: Gordon Ertz; top right: George M Richards.
bottom left: Constance Wheeler; bottom right: Boris Artzybasheff.
Covers from an American adventure story magazine which ran from 1925–1935. Very lavish designs compared to the pulps it was competing against. From the excellent selection at MagazineArt.org.
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• The illustrators archive
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• The art of Boris Artzybasheff, 1899–1965
Myths of the World (1930).
Boris Artzybasheff’s humorous illustrations of anthropomorphic machines have received a lot of attention from Boing Boing recently. But Artzybasheff was a very versatile artist, not a one-trick pony, and his book and other magazine illustration is worth a look as well. These examples are from the indispensable VTS. Some of his early magazine covers brought to light here have a distinct Hannes Bok flavour.
Seven Simeons (1937).
See also:
• Artzybasheff’s Neurotica
• Artzybasheff’s Machinalia
• Another page of illustrations
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• The illustrators archive