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Look Here: Four DENSAGA covers by Richard Corben

RC — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:48:25 +0000

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

RC — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:34:43 +0000

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

RC — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:27:30 +0000

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

RC — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:54 +0000

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…

RC — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:08:59 +0000

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Look Here: “Yes, Virginia… “

RC — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:58:46 +0000

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Look Here: Ken Kelly gives Santa the axe…

RC — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:12 +0000

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

RC — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:40:48 +0000

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

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

RC — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:40:33 +0000

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

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

Rest in Peace: Russell Hoban (4 February 1925 – 13 December 2011)

RC — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:14:58 +0000

I’m a couple of days late with this notice, and to tell you the truth, I don’t really have anything to say about the death of Russell Hoban that would be of interest to anyone, but I will probably be back to add to the list of links below as more notices and tributes to the great man appear on the Web, and I definitely plan to supplement this post with a visual tribute to Russell Hoban in the near future. So watch for updates!

UPDATE (16 December 2011): RCN’s VISUAL TRIBUTE TO RUSSELL HOBAN:

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

“I’m working on something now, and I worry I may drop dead before it’s finished… but come to think of it that’s true of any book you write.”
— Russell Hoban, in conversation with Will Self, 2010

FORMAL OBITUARIES:

guardian.co.uk > Russell Hoban Obituary by John Clute

io9 > R.I.P. Russell Hoban, Author of Over 50 Magical Children’s Books, Plus a Post-Apocalyptic Classic

New York Times > Russell Hoban, ‘Frances’ Author, Dies at 86. Here’s an excerpt that provides some facts about Hoban’s life:

Russell Conwell Hoban was born in Lansdale, Pa., west of Trenton, N.J., and north of Philadelphia, on Feb. 4, 1925. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants who opened a newsstand in Philadelphia. His father, who died when Russell was 12, also worked as an advertising manager for The Jewish Daily Forward.

After high school he attended art school in Philadelphia and served in the Army in Europe during World War II, earning a Bronze Star. At his death he was awaiting publication of a new book, “Soonchild,” due early next year.

“Writing was my father’s life,” Phoebe Hoban said Wednesday, “and when he died he had done what he needed to do.”

Mr. Hoban had lived in London since 1969. His first marriage ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Gundula Ahl; their three sons, Jake, Ben and Wieland; four children from his first marriage to Lillian Aberman: three daughters, Phoebe, Esmé and Julia, and a son, Brom; and 13 grandchildren.

“I think death will be a good career move for me.
People will say, ‘Yes, Hoban, he seems an interesting writer, let’s look at him again.’”
— Russell Hoban, interview (2002)

BONUS LINKS:

A.V. Club > Riddley Walker author Russell Hoban, interview by Todd VanDerWerff (April 30, 2010)

guardian.co.uk > Writers’ rooms: Russell Hoban — text by Russell Hoban, photo by Eamonn McCabe.

Ocelot Factory > THE HEAD OF ORPHEUS: A Russell Hoban Reference Page > An Interview with Russell Hoban by Edward Myers — originally published in The Literary Review in 1984.

wordsSHIFTminds > Russell Hoban the illustrator