If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that Mort Kunstler is one of the greatest of the many great artists who provided cover paintings and interior illustrations…
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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 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…
Merry Christmas – Men’s Adventure Magazine style…
The holiday season got me thinking about what it might have been like if some of the pulpier men’s adventure magazines had used Christmas-themed cover paintings on their December issues.…
The legendary Walter Kaylin, “Jaws” and the USS Indianapolis
Earlier this month, I posted an entry on this blog about Walter Kaylin, the legendary men’s adventure story writer who was also editor of the short-lived, pocket-size men’s pulp magazine…
Men’s Pulp Mag Piranhas vs. SyFy’s “Mega Piranhas”
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…
“Monkey Madness” and bloodthirsty baboons
During my recent interview with Dr. David M. Earle, the author of All Man! (the excellent new book about Ernest Hemingway and 1950s men’s magazines), I asked him if he…
Yes, you are seeing double. Happy New Year!
If you’re you’re reading this on New Year’s Eve, don’t worry. You are seeing double, but it’s not alcohol related. It’s an example of the same cover art being used…
Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds would’ve loved “The Virgins from Hell”
Recently, I bought a copy of the January 1961 issue of Male magazine online, largely because it had a cover painting by Mort Kunstler, one of the greatest and most…
Crawling Death of Bad Luck Island
Stag was one of the most successful and long lasting of the men’s pulp mags. It was first published in 1950 and ran in the classic men’s adventure style format…