More “Good Girl Art” by Basil Gogos

Today’s post features more vintage “Good Girl Art” by the great illustrator Basil Gogos. But first a little history about that term… From the 1930s to the early 1950s, before…

Some wild Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that Rich Oberg is the world’s foremost expert on and collector of men’s adventure magazine art. It’s the Rich…

MAN’S ILLUSTRATED exposes “The Instant Thrill Pill.”

In an entry I posted here a while ago, I featured a wild, but apparently true story about a doctor who volunteered to be a guinea pig in some early…

Talking about Ernest Hemingway, then and now…

This week, two things reminded me of one of my favorite books of the past year, All Man! – Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona by Dr. David…