Showing posts with label BILL ELDER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BILL ELDER. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2019

Playboy illustrations

Bill Elder
illustration for Girls of the Slime God, November 1960
Edward Gorey
January 1971
Arnold Roth
February 1971
Gahan Wilson
July 1971
Skip Williamson
August 1973
Charles Rodrigues
January 1974
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January 1974
Pat Oliphant
June 1974
July 1974
Monte Wolverton
November 1974
March 1975
Neal Adams
May 1975
January 1976

Monday, October 30, 2017

The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman

Here's an article from the December 1957 Playboy. I guess publisher Hugh Hefner felt bad about giving Harvey Kurtzman carte blanche to do the magazine of his dreams only to pull the rug out from him after two issues. The article tells a bit about him and his group of creators.

The painting by Bill Elder on this first page was intended for a never-published third issue of Trump.
I almost never post text-only pieces but I'll make an exception here since it's a profile of Kurtzman. It's taken from a computer file so I can't rescan it. Hopefully you're able to read the print.
Wallace Wood
Arnold Roth and Ed Fisher in Trump
Next two pages, also in Trump, by Jack Davis
To round things out, here's a one-pager by Howard Schneider.
And a double page spread of an old joke illustrated by Al Stine

Monday, January 12, 2015

Cracked #6, 1 of 3

Here is the first part of the 6th issue of Cracked from December 1958.

The cover is by Russ Heath
Two-pager by Bill Elder. The chicken-fat must have cost extra.
John Severin didn't do almost every page when the magazine first started, but he did do a lot, such as this.
Bill Ward