It’s October and what better way to celebrate this month than with these seven pictures inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos?
Tsathoggua Rising by Richard Loung
The Chase by Douglas A. Sirois
Lovecraft by Francesco Francavilla
Cthulhu Rising by Richard Loung
Cthulhu Rises by Silberious
Awakening by Douglas A. Sirois
All Bow Before Mighty Cthulhu by Erin Nicole
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
Welcome to October!
Here’s hoping this month finds you with joy, family, friends, fiends, ghouls, and ghosts!
Have a safe and wonderful Halloween month!
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
Charles Copeland was an illustrator who worked for several men’s magazines and paperback book publishers in the 50s and 60s. There’s not much biographical information about him on the web but his work, which always featured manly men and sexy women in dangerous and exciting situations, speaks for itself.
Take a look at his work below.
Bernard Safran was a painter, photographer, and illustrator known for his humanistic approach and his portraits of both the famous and the not so famous. Though he started out as an illustrator and painted several paperback covers, he is best remembered for his paintings and photographs of life in New York City. A small sampling of his work is below and you can see more of his work and learn more about his life at http://www.safran-arts.com/index.html.
Frank R. Paul was born in Austria, studied art in Vienna and Paris, immigrated to the U.S. in 1906, and went on to become one of the most influential science fiction artists of all time. After working as a graphic designer, Paul was hired to illustrated a science magazine in 1916. Paul went on to do hundreds of covers and interior illustrations for pulp magazines like Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, and Planet Stories. In 2009, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Born in Brooklyn, Stanley Borack served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and studied art at the Art Students League of New York under the G.I. Bill. He began his career as professional illustrator in 1950 and, up until he retired at the end of the 1970s, he did hundreds of covers for pulp magazines and paperback book publishers. Among collectors, he is especially known for the racy covers he did for Ted Mark’s Man From O.R.G.Y. series. After retirement, his spent his remaining years doing painting of the Old West for fine art galleries across the country.
Victor Olson was born in Connecticut and studied art at the Art Classic School of New York. He was a well-known painter, whose work currently hangs in the Smithsonian Institute Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He was also an illustrator who painted several paperback covers for such publishers as Doubleday, Avon Books, MacFadden Books, Bantan and Monarch.
A sampling of his work can be found below.
The work below was all done by Raymond Johnson. Other than that he was active in the 1950s and 60 and he painted the covers for several paperback publishers, I haven’t been able to find much biographical information about this artist. His work will just have to speak for itself.
The Affairs of A Leading Lady
Fred Charles Rodewald was an illustrator who was active from 1926 until his death in 1955. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much biographical information about Rodewald. He was born in Hanover, Germany but moved, with his family, to New Jersey when he was six years old. He dropped out of school in 1920, worked in his family’s store, and apparently never had any formal artistic training before he started his career as an illustrator. In 1954, one year before his death, he wrote and illustrated a book entitled Commercial Art As A Business, a detailed guide to the practical concerns of earning a living as a commercial artist.
A small sampling of his work can be found below.
Born in Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th Century, the prolific illustrator Rudolph Belarski dropped out of school at the age of 12 and spent the next ten years working in the coal mines. During this time, he studied mail-order art courses at night from the International Correspondence School, Inc. of Scranton, PA. In 1922, he moved to New York City and studied at the Pratt Institute. Upon graduating in 1926, he taught at Pratt for 5 years. He started his career as a cover artist in 1935 and worked regularly until 1960, painting covers for both pulp magazines and paperback books. His greatest work may have been done during World War II, when he served with the USO and drew thousands of portrait sketches of hospitalized veterans in New York and London.
A small sampling of his pulp work can be found below.
Through the Shattered Lens 