After I wrote my last post about model and actress Eva Lynd, I got an email from Eva that included a new revelation. It was a scan of an interior…
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Bruce Minney, “The Man Who Painted Everything,” is now gone – but his artistic legacy will live on…
On August 5, 2013, the great illustration artist Bruce Minney passed away at age 84, about two months after suffering a major stroke. If you’re a regular reader of this…
Eva Lynd vs. “The Tattoo Gang” and evil Nazis, in vintage cover paintings by Norm Eastman…
A few weeks ago I got an email about some previous posts I’d done on my blog about actress and model Eva Lynd. It said: “Hi Robert – I am…
Eva Lynd vs. The Nazis (and various other bad guys) in Norm Eastman’s classic cover paintings – Part 1…
During the decades when men’s adventure magazines were being published, Eva Lynd was best known as an actress and a glamour photography model. In the late 1950s, she was a…
Lesbians in Men’s Adventure Magazines, Part 1: Objects of Fear, Loathing – and Desire…
American males who read the men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s seem to have had a special fascination with lesbians that editors were happy to…
Bruce Minney Interview, Part 3 – From battle scenes and biker babes to African violet pots…
In case you missed them, here are links to Part 1 and Part 2 of my interview with Bruce Minney, one of the top illustration artists who did cover and…
The Bruce Minney Interview– Part 2: “Sweat Magazines,” paperbacks and beyond…
In the first part of my interview with Bruce Minney, he told me how he got started doing cover and interior art for men’s adventure magazines in 1955, after linking…
An interview with Bruce Minney – Part 1
Bruce Minney is one of the most talented and prolific of the many great artists who created cover paintings and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines from the mid-1950s to…
Visiting Rich Oberg, the Dean of Men’s Adventure Magazines…
Recently, I had the great pleasure of visiting men’s adventure magazine art expert and collector Rich Oberg at his home in Tennessee. Original artwork and magazines from Rich’s collection are…
An interview with artist Mort Künstler – Part 2
Today, Mort Künstler is known as one of the premier historical artists in America. Since the 1980s, his main focus has been on paintings of scenes from American history, especially…
Basil Gogos paintings from the Rich Oberg Collection…
Recently, men’s pulp art collector Rich Oberg and I were asked to put together an article about men’s adventure magazines for HorrorHound, a nicely-produced periodical about films, TV shows, books,…