GIL COHEN: INSIDE/OUT — THE ARCHIVE COLLECTION

GIL COHEN: INSIDE/OUT—THE ARCHIVE COLLECTION, a deluxe, full-color hardcover, is the first book in a planned four-volume series that will showcase the classic men’s adventure magazine covers and interior illustrations created by artist Gil Cohen during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

It includes more than 160 high-resolution scans of his cover and interior illustrations. Unlike later volumes in the INSIDE/OUT series—which will reproduce surviving original paintings alongside the published artwork and include commentary by Gil—THE ARCHIVE COLLECTION provides a sweeping visual overview of his men’s adventure magazine illustration work across the entire three decades of the genre’s existence.

At age 94, Gil Cohen is the last surviving artist who produced cover paintings and interior illustrations throughout all three decades of the men’s adventure magazine era. During those years he created more than 500 illustrations depicting virtually every subject found in the often wild stories published in the magazines—from war scenes, Western adventures, and aviation drama to motorcycle gangs, spies, and exotic adventure yarns.

Many of the illustrations reproduced in this book have rarely been seen since their original publication. All scans were produced from vintage magazines in The Robert Deis Archive, one of the world’s largest private collections of men’s adventure magazines.

Tens of millions of readers are familiar with the iconic paperback cover paintings Gil Cohen for Don Pendleton‘s novels featuring “The Executioner”—Mack Bolan. His original paintings for those novels are showcased in the book ONE MAN ARMY: THE ACTION PAPERBACK ART OF GIL COHEN. Cohen is also well known for the large-scale paintings of American pilots and aircraft he did for galleries and prints starting in the late 1980s. They’re featured in the book GIL COHEN: AVIATION ARTIST. The skills Cohen used to create his paperback and military aviation art were initially developed by doing cover and interior illustrations for men’s adventure magazines.

For more information about this book see the blog post at this link.

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WANT A COPY SIGNED BY GIL COHEN? While they last, you can buy a copy of a special limited edition of THE ARCHIVE COLLECTION signed by Gil Cohen. This special signed edition is currently only available from Wyatt Doyle’s New Texture website here: https://bit.ly/GilCohenArchive-Signed.