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…