Recently, the SyFy channel aired a made-for-TV movie titled Mega Piranha, which featured giant CGI killer fish. It was just cheesy enough to be enjoyable, if you enjoy cheesy Grade-B…
Category: Norm Eastman
Daring to compare Norman Rockwell, Norman Saunders and Norm Eastman
Men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s have a special place in the history of illustration art. The artwork they used was a more modern incarnation and…
Norm Eastman cover art: from sadistic Nazis to Harlequin Romance
Men’s adventure art collector Rich Oberg recently told me about a trip he made in 2004 to visit artist Norm Eastman at his home in Lompoc, California, a few…
Rich Oberg’s gives us the first online glimpse of his awesome men’s adventure art collection
One of the must-have books for fans and collectors of men’s pulp mags is Men’s Adventure Magazines, published by Taschen. It features hundreds of men’s adventure magazine covers from the…
Talking with Rich Oberg: the Dean of Men’s Adventure Magazines
Recently, I had the good fortune of talking with Rich Oberg, who is literally the world’s greatest collector of men’s adventure magazines and the original artwork created for them. Examples…
Man the lifeboats! Woman them, too!
In addition to staples like stories about war, killer animals and sex-related topics, survival stories were a common subject in men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.…
Harlots, Nazis and killer fish!
Men Today was one of the spicier men’s adventure magazines. It is probably most famous – and infamous – for its gonzo Nazi bondage and torture covers, many of which…