(Post updated June 15, 2013 with additional text and artwork.) Robert A. Maguire, often credited as R.A. Maguire, was among the best and most famous of many talented illustration artists…
Year: 2013
RAGE magazine, January 1963, featuring a whip-mad sheik, a Beatnik brothel, man-starved nymphos, and more…
RAGE is one of my favorite low-budget men’s pulp magazines, though I have always been a bit puzzled by its name. Was it supposed to appeal to some subset of…
Animals as instruments of torture: from real history to the surreal world of men’s pulp magazines…
Recently, I worked with Wyatt Doyle, my co-editor for the WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! story anthology, to write another article for HORRORHOUND magazine about killer creature artwork and stories in…
Glamour girl Eva Lynd and artist Al Rossi: together again…
To men’s adventure magazine collectors, Eva Lynd is best known — by sight if not by name — as a favorite model of artist Norm Eastman. She appeared on many…
Eva Lynd vs. “The Tattoo Gang” and evil Nazis, in vintage cover paintings by Norm Eastman…
A few weeks ago I got an email about some previous posts I’d done on my blog about actress and model Eva Lynd. It said: “Hi Robert – I am…
Eva Lynd vs. The Nazis (and various other bad guys) – Part 2, updated…
AN EXCITING UPDATE ABOUT EVA LYND: I originally uploaded this post in 2012. At the time, I noted that I wasn’t sure if Eva Lynd was still alive. A few…
Eva Lynd vs. The Nazis (and various other bad guys) in Norm Eastman’s classic cover paintings – Part 1…
During the decades when men’s adventure magazines were being published, Eva Lynd was best known as an actress and a glamour photography model. In the late 1950s, she was a…
Norman Baer’s noir-flavored artwork for CAVALIER magazine…
The late Norman Baer was one of many highly-talented illustration artists who worked for men’s adventure magazines during part of their careers. As noted in the previous post here, Baer…
Norman Baer: another men’s adventure magazine artist who deserves wider recognition…
Not long ago I did a couple of posts about Peter Poulton, an artist who has been ranked as one the best pulp illustration artists of the 1950s but is…
The WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! book is now available…
I’m pleased to be able to announce that WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! — the world’s first modern anthology of vintage men’s pulp adventure magazine stories — is now available on…