Michael Kaluta

Here's some stuff by Michael Kaluta. These were published as posters and/or prints in the 1970's. My favorite is Behind Neptune's Throne.



Behind Neptune's Throne




The Sentry




Solo




Icarus Had a Sister

Holy Batman!

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Tiny Maurice

A Christmas card from B.K. Taylor, 1983.

A Christmas Trimming

By Carl Barks, 1999.

The Conan Saga

Here's some nice drawings of Conan by Barry Windsor-Smith. They were done for covers of the reprint series The Conan Saga, published in 1987-1988.

Bernie Wrightson & the Conqueror Worm

Here is a scan of Bernie Wrightson's piece "The Conqueror Worm." This drawing always kind of creeped me out. I guess it's a combination of the white eyes and the slug-like tail. It was used as the back cover of the Berni Wrightson Treasury (1975)and was the front cover of a Wrightson checklist published right around the same time. More below...



Below I've posted the last panel of the last issue of Swamp Thing Bernie drew, (#10, June 1974). Apparently, Swamp Thing's next foe was going to be "The Conqueror Worms." Since the drawing here was done around the same time, I always wondered if it was something left over from the run-up to Swamp Thing #11, which of course Wrightson never drew. I don't know if a character like this big worm guy shows up in #11, I've never read it.



The phrase "The Conqueror Worm" is from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem appears to be about the inevitability and finality of death.

Axis of Evil

Two adventure mag illustrations by Victor Prezio:




Women-in-War, November 1959.




Men's Adventure, January 1965.

Bernie Wrighston: Monster Times

Monster Times was a newsprint magazine published from 1972 to 1976. It focused on monster movies, but also covered comic books and things like Star Trek. Issue #1, dated January 26, 1972 had King Kong on the cover and some nice Wrightson work on the inside. Below are Bernie's contributions to that issue: a Frankenstein centerfold and a nice atmospheric two page Nosferatu strip. The Nosferatu strip was reprinted in both The Mutants and The Reaper of Love. The Frankenstein illustration was also reprinted in The Mutants.













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Coming Out Party

Bernie Wrightson's cover art for the catalog for NY Comic Art Gallery Show, Oct. 1977.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

Some lobby cards from the 1956 American release:

Arthur Sarnoff

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) did a ton of illustrations and advertisements. He seems to have been most prolific in the 1950's. More art by Sarnoff here and here. I've really been enjoying this slick 1950's and 1960's commercial art lately. Sarnoff also did an album cover for the Butthole Surfers.

Below are a couple of Sarnoff pieces that I really like.




Portrait in Green, n.d.




Embrace, n.d.

Saturday Odds & Ends

Cartoon by Frank Antonchich, 1940's.





Flash Gordon illustration by Gray Morrow, n.d.





Gothic romance cover.

Zombies?!

Why are there zombies on this comic cover? And why is that unusual?



Find out in this interesting post on the blog Heart in a Jar. [via]

Batman! by Bernie Wrightson

A couple of Batman covers by Bernie Wrightson.




Detective Comics #425, July 1972. I always really liked this one.




Batman #320, February 1980.

More Wrightson Batman fun posted previously.

Batman! by Michael Kaluta

Some Batman and Detective Comic covers by Michael Kaluta:




Batman #242, June 1972.




Batman #248, April 1973.




Batman #253, November 1973.
(with the Shadow!)




Batman Annual #12, 1988.




Detective Comics #423, May 1972.
(Batman with a gun!)




Detective Comics #427, September 1972.




Detective Comics #431, January 1973.