Artist Basil Gogos is the most widely-known and revered painter of movie monster paintings in the world. His reputation as the King of Monster Art was first established in the…
Category: Famous Monsters of Filmland
WILDCAT ADVENTURES premieres with an artistic and literary bang in June 1959…
WILDCAT ADVENTURES was one of several classic men’s adventure magazines published by Robert C. Sproul, through his company Candar Publishing, sometimes misspelled as “Candor” by sources like the 1960 book…
Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
Recently, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I were asked to put together an article about men’s adventure magazines for HorrorHound, a nicely-produced periodical about films, TV shows, books,…
Basil Gogos “Good Girl Art” – and a shout out to artist and author Kerry Gammill
Recently, I was pleased to see that artist and author Kerry Gammill dropped by the Men’s Adventure Magazines Facebook group. Kerry is a multi-talented Texan who has provided artwork for…
Connecting the dots between horror films and men’s pulp magazines (Boris Karloff Blogathon)
On this blog, I regularly feature some of the great cover paintings and interior art from men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. I’m a big fan…
Monster Master Basil Gogos Does Men’s Adventure
Artist Basil Gogos has been called “a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell.” He’s best known for the legendary monster paintings he did for horror magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland, created by…