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Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3)

Posted by RC at 8:34 pm Aldren Watson, Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Look Here

Jan 262012

Over the next couple of days (if not sooner), I plan to post all of Aldren Watson’s illustrations from volume two of the 1948 Doubleday & Company edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books, designed by Oscar Ogg. I bought my battered copy of the book a little less than a year ago at the annual book sale organized to benefit the Regina Symphony Orchestra. My copy is no collector’s item, but on the other hand, because it is in rough condition, I did not feel too bad about pressing it down on my flatbed scanner to take the following pictures:

Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3) <-- You are here!
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 2 of 3)
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 3 of 3)

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Connections: Richard Corben and Jeff Zornow

Posted by RC at 8:27 pm Book/Magazine Covers (All), Connections, Illustration Art, Look Here

Jan 262012

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Look Here, Read: “Albert and Pogo’s Christmas” by Walt Kelly

Posted by RC at 6:00 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Comics, Here, Read, Illustration Art, Look Here, Walt Kelly

Dec 232011

From Santa Claus Funnies #254 (1949), here’s “Albert and Pogo’s Christmas,” with script and art by the incomparable Walt Kelly:

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Look Here: Mad fun on the slopes with Jack Davis…

Posted by RC at 9:08 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Jack Davis, Look Here

Dec 212011

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Look Here: “Yes, Virginia… “

Posted by RC at 8:58 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Erich Sokol, Illustration Art, Look Here

Dec 212011

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Look Here: Ken Kelly gives Santa the axe…

Posted by RC at 6:00 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Look Here

Dec 202011

Christmas tradition warns that each of the kids on Santa’s “naughty list” will get a lump of coal in his or her stocking, but fans of Creepy Magazine know that it could be a lot worse…

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“He sees you when you’re sleeping,
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake.”
— John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie,
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (1934)

Look Here: TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, illustrated by Russell Hoban, Part I

Posted by RC at 9:40 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Look Here, Russell Hoban

Dec 162011

In 1963, The Macmillan Company published Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, with an afterword by Clifton Fadiman and illustrations by Russell Hoban. Hoban died this week of complications from quadruple bypass surgery, but his work as an illustrator, children’s author, and novelist lives on. All of the images in the following online gallery have been scanned by yours truly from a copy of Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe that I bought a few years ago at the annual book sale to benefit the Regina Symphony; I haven’t tried to equalize the space around the images but instead have left them as they appear on the page, printed at variable distances from the gutter. This post is part one of two. Enjoy! And don’t just take. Link.

Look Here: TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, illustrated by Russell Hoban, Part I <-- YOU ARE HERE
Look Here: TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, illustrated by Russell Hoban, Part II

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