Black and White Brunner

Some black and white drawings from Frank Brunner, 1970 - 1978. These are from various fanzines and art books, including Infinity, The Brunner Mystique, and After Image.

Pirate's Ghost!

I really love this one by Howard Pyle, I should probably save it for Halloween, but this is a good time of year for ghosts too...




"There Cap'n Goldsack goes, creeping, creeping, creeping, Looking for his treasure down below!" Illustration by Howard Pyle for William Sharp's "Cap'n Goldsack," Harper's Magazine, July 1902.

Pirates!

"The Sea Rogue's Moon," illustration by Norman Mills Price for Liberty magazine, 1928.







Pirate Wench by Frank Shay. Unknown artist, 1950.




"Treasure Island," illustration by Douglass Crockwell for Coronet magazine, March 1946.




"Scheming Pirates," unknown artist, nd.

Alex Raymond's Captain Blood

Here is the original art by Alex Raymond for a movie poster of the 1935 movie Captain Blood. Below that is a scan of the poster.

Oops...Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I forgot it was St. Patrick's Day when I put together this morning's post. So here is a painting by Walter Baumhofer called "Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen." It was an illustration for Argosy magazine.

It Really Happened!

It Really Happened #3, 1944. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #4, 1944. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #6, 1946. Alex Schomburg cover.




It Really Happened #11, 1947. Alex Schomburg cover.

Friday Odds and Ends

Death Rattle #1, June 1972. Cover art by Richard Corben.




Cover art for Captain Crossbones by Donald Barr Chidsey, 1958. Unknown artist.



Brinke Stevens

Friday Odds and Ends

"Captain Blood Inspecting the Treasure Chest Jewels" by Dean Cornwell. Illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine, July 1930.




"Inside Shelob's Lair" by Charles Vess, 1979.




Prehistoric scene by Lynd Ward.

Pirates Comics

This is one of the more awesome comic book covers I've seen recently. Pirates Comics #3 by Hillman Periodicals. July-Aug 1950.

Pirates by Frank Schoonover

Frank Schoonover was born in 1877 in New Jersey. He studied under Howard Pyle and by 1905 was producing illustrations for Scribner's Magazine. Schoonover lived a productive life, he continued to paint and teach until his death in 1972. Schoonover is best known for his illustrations of the Northern Canadian frontier. But like any good Pyle student, he turned out a number of very nice pirate paintings. Here are a few of them:



Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters, by Rupert Holland. Garden City Publishing, 1931



Barbary Bo, by Reginald Wright Kauffman. Penn Publishing, 1929.



"Blackbeard in Smoke and Flame," 1922.