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…
Men’s Pulp Mag Piranhas vs. SyFy’s “Mega Piranhas”
Bloodthirsty baboons, a transgendered damsel in distress, vicious anteaters — and a killer Komodo dragon…
A while ago, in a post featuring monkey and baboon attack covers, I included the cover of the May 1955 issue of Men magazine. The cover painting on that issue…
“Tattoos are for Sissies” – according to a 1958 men’s pulp magazine
This past weekend, I got an email from Nick Colella, a tattoo artist at Chicago Tattoo, Illinois’ oldest tattooing studio. Nick was looking for an issue of Escape to Adventure…
BRAVE: the pocket-sized men’s pulp magazine full of “Rugged Adventure”
In Volume 2 of her excellent 6-Volume History of Men’s Magazines, Dian Hanson notes: “A curiosity of the 1950s was a number of American men’s lifestyle digests that…combined all the…
Talking with the “Black Cracker” about the black artist Al Hollingsworth
The publication of Josh Alan Friedman’s new memoir Black Cracker this week reminded me of some things he recently told me about the pioneering black artist Alvin C. Hollingsworth. In…
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…
When cocaine grew on trees (in men’s pulp magazines)…
By the early ‘70s, the men’s adventure magazine genre was dying out, largely due to competition from more sexually explicit men’s magazines. “The market slid ever crotchward,” as Josh Alan…
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…
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…
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…
“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…