The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #3 – our “Vigilante Justice” issue

In January 2021, I launched a new full-color, glossy magazine with Bill Cunningham, the talented head honcho at Pulp 2.0 Press. Each issue features classic stories and artwork from men’s…

The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 2 – our spy stories & artwork issue

The MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2 – our spy stories & artwork issue. Recently, Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 Press and I released the second issue of our new full-color, 150+ page MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY magazine. Copies the MAQ are available on Amazon in the US and worldwide. You can also get copies directly from me via my eBay listings.

ONE MAN ARMY: THE ACTION PAPERBACK ART OF GIL COHEN — our latest book…

Artist Gil Cohen is one of the towering figures in several art realms. In recent decades he has established himself as one of the world’s premier military aviation artists. His…

An interview with artist Gil Cohen about his Executioner/Mack Bolan cover paintings – PART 2…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  My previous post here was Part 1 of my extensive new interview with artist Gil Cohen about his cover paintings for the hugely popular Executioner/Mack Bolan series of…

An interview with artist Gil Cohen about his Executioner/Mack Bolan cover paintings…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Last fall, shortly before my life got blown sideways for several months by Hurricane Irma, I saw a brief article in an issue Gary Lovisi’s great magazine PAPERBACK…

The legendary “Monkey Madness” story in men’s adventure magazines…

If you ask my wife, she’ll say I already own way too many old men’s adventure magazines. They now fill up bookshelves on every wall of my little man cave/office.…

The Mystery of the Nude Nazi Love Captives…

A while after I posted my three-part interview with former men’s adventure magazine artist Gil Cohen, I ran across an online photo of one of his original paintings that made…

Interview with artist Gil Cohen: Part 3 – The Magazine Management years and beyond…

Part 3 of my interview with Gil Cohen, an artist who once painted hundreds of cover paintings and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines, picks up after he was discharged…

Interview with artist Gil Cohen: Part 2 – Gil’s first men’s adventure magazine assignment…

Here’s the second part of my interview with Gil Cohen, the renowned aviation artist, book cover artist, movie poster artist and illustration artist. You did a huge number of cover…

Interview with Artist Gil Cohen: Part 1 – An artist who won’t be pigeonholed…

Artists are often pigeonholed based on the type of art they did during a particular phase of their career. Today, many people know Gil Cohen as an “aviation artist.” That’s…

It’ OK to see double on New Year’s Eve – if it’s on the covers of men’s adventure magazines

In my New Year’s Eve post last year, I showed some examples of cover paintings that appeared on the covers of two different men’s adventure magazines. I thought about that…

Uncovering the Real James Bond – and the Real Roland Empey

The January 1966 issue of Male magazine features a very cool, Sixties-flavored cover painting by Mort Kunstler that looks like a James Bond scene. Quite a few of Ian Fleming’s…