A few weeks ago, I discovered a blog entry called "Pulp Cover Swipes of the Golden Age," written by Yaniv Elancry and posted on the blog Streyflexin Collectibles on April 20 of some year. The article was originally on a website or app called Shortboxed. Mr. Elancry did a nice job of compiling swipes made by comic book artists from pulp magazines. One of those swipes is from a cover of Weird Tales:
On the left is cover art by Margaret Brundage for Weird Tales, March 1933. On the right is the cover of House of Mystery #1 by Win Mortimer and Charles Paris from 1951-1952. Margaret Brundage's cover is of course in the category of "Woman and Wolf," about which I wrote on January 27, 2014, here.
There are lots of other swipes and lots of good artwork in Yaniv Elancry's blog posting. You can read it and see it by clicking here.
Text copyright 2023 Terence E. Hanley
Not unusual for comic book artists to keep "reference" files and these are all proof of that!
ReplyDeleteHi, John,
DeleteYou're right. I have looked at the way other artists have drawn a certain thing in order to figure out how to draw it myself. I'd like to think that I haven't swiped anybody else's artwork, but you never know about unconscious influences.
TH