BPIB - PUBLISHINGRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

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JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY Maxfield Parrish Color Theory. “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur I. Keller. There is a color Keller. piece in issues 4 & 5 of. Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father was an engraver and encouraged Keller to be an artist. He was born in New York City and studied art at the

National

ERIC PAPE - BPIB

His work included paintings, sculpture and drawings. Significantly, most of his 1894 submissions were drawings with an Inca theme. Also in 1894, “Frederick S.M. Pape” signs his last Century drawing on page 888 of the April issue. In August of 1894, “Eric Pape” can

VIRGIL FINLAY

Virgil Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York. He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures. Very little of his poetry ever saw print, but upwards of 2800 drawings and paintings, most printed on cheap pulp paper, made him the most famous fantasy illustrator of mid-twentieth

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime. Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn . He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor. At one point he was apprenticed to a sign maker and took some art classes

at

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal. But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that. Even before the fanzine work, I was creating my own panel

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

BPIB - PUBLISHINGRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

AND WHITE IMAGES

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY Maxfield Parrish Color Theory. “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur I. Keller. There is a color Keller. piece in issues 4 & 5 of. Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father was an engraver and encouraged Keller to be an artist. He was born in New York City and studied art at the

National

ERIC PAPE - BPIB

His work included paintings, sculpture and drawings. Significantly, most of his 1894 submissions were drawings with an Inca theme. Also in 1894, “Frederick S.M. Pape” signs his last Century drawing on page 888 of the April issue. In August of 1894, “Eric Pape” can

VIRGIL FINLAY

Virgil Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York. He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures. Very little of his poetry ever saw print, but upwards of 2800 drawings and paintings, most printed on cheap pulp paper, made him the most famous fantasy illustrator of mid-twentieth

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime. Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn . He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor. At one point he was apprenticed to a sign maker and took some art classes

at

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal. But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that. Even before the fanzine work, I was creating my own panel

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

DOROTHY LATHROP

Dorothy Lathrop. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born April 16, 1891 in Albany, New York. One of the most influential and important illustrators of children’s books in the thirties and forties, she began her career in 1918. At that time she was a 27 year old teacher of art in Albany. Arguably her most famous works were the illustrations for Rachel

BRAD HOLLAND

Holland was born in 1943 and pretty much taught himself to draw. He remembers drawing his own comic books as a child and, at the age of seven, took it upon himself to rewrite the ending of the Iliad in the Classics Illustrated version. My guess is the Trojans won.

ALEX TOTH

Alex Toth (rhymes with ‘both’) was a generous friend, an irascible curmudgeon and one of the greatest graphic geniuses of the past sixty years. He died at the age of HAL FOSTER BIOGRAPHY Hal Foster’s work has inspired generations of artists including Jack Kirby (see above), Lou Fine, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wayne Boring, Joe Kubert, Russ Manning, Frank Thorne, Dave Stevens, Charles Vess, William Stout, Mark Schultz and many others.Even the great Disney artist, Carl Barks once said that he kept Foster’s water scenes as reference because he was the only one who could

GEORGE PETTY

George Petty is most famous for his pin-up drawings that appeared in Esquire magazine in the 1930’s and the covers for many Ice Capades programs. There is an excellent 1997 book on him, Petty – The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty.It’s worth getting and I hereby credit it as my main source of information on Petty.

ALPHONSE MUCHA

Alphonse Mucha. Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R LEO AND DIANE DILLON BIOGRAPHY Leo and Diane Dillon Biography. There’s something magical about the Dillons’ art, not the least of which is that it exists at all. Collaborative art is, by nature, a series of compromises. Somehow the Dillons have managed to compromise themselves into an on-going series of masterworks. They met at Parsons School of Design in New York.

C. COLES PHILLIPS

The Siege of the Seven Suitors – 1910. C. Coles Phillips was born in 1880 in Springfield, Ohio. Others of his generation include Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Everett, Willy Pogany, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth, Though he enjoyed drawing as a youngster, when he graduated from high school his father got him a job as a clerk for the local

ROY G. KRENKEL

Roy G. (for Gerald) Krenkel was a talented contradiction. Born in 1918 (around the time of Virgil Partch, Bernard Krigstein and Ronald Searle), he studied for a year with George Bridgman at the Art Students League circa 1938, but other than that, his misspent youth consisted of “drawing a lot, reading and collecting art books, going to art museums, and associating with a few other young art BPIB - PUBLISHINGRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

AND WHITE IMAGES

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY Maxfield Parrish Color Theory. “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur I. Keller. There is a color Keller. piece in issues 4 & 5 of. Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father was an engraver and encouraged Keller to be an artist. He was born in New York City and studied art at the

National

ERIC PAPE - BPIB

His work included paintings, sculpture and drawings. Significantly, most of his 1894 submissions were drawings with an Inca theme. Also in 1894, “Frederick S.M. Pape” signs his last Century drawing on page 888 of the April issue. In August of 1894, “Eric Pape” can

VIRGIL FINLAY

Virgil Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York. He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures. Very little of his poetry ever saw print, but upwards of 2800 drawings and paintings, most printed on cheap pulp paper, made him the most famous fantasy illustrator of mid-twentieth

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime. Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn . He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor. At one point he was apprenticed to a sign maker and took some art classes

at

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal. But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that. Even before the fanzine work, I was creating my own panel

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

BPIB - PUBLISHINGRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

AND WHITE IMAGES

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY Maxfield Parrish Color Theory. “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur I. Keller. There is a color Keller. piece in issues 4 & 5 of. Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father was an engraver and encouraged Keller to be an artist. He was born in New York City and studied art at the

National

ERIC PAPE - BPIB

His work included paintings, sculpture and drawings. Significantly, most of his 1894 submissions were drawings with an Inca theme. Also in 1894, “Frederick S.M. Pape” signs his last Century drawing on page 888 of the April issue. In August of 1894, “Eric Pape” can

VIRGIL FINLAY

Virgil Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York. He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures. Very little of his poetry ever saw print, but upwards of 2800 drawings and paintings, most printed on cheap pulp paper, made him the most famous fantasy illustrator of mid-twentieth

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime. Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn . He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor. At one point he was apprenticed to a sign maker and took some art classes

at

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal. But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that. Even before the fanzine work, I was creating my own panel

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

DOROTHY LATHROP

Dorothy Lathrop. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born April 16, 1891 in Albany, New York. One of the most influential and important illustrators of children’s books in the thirties and forties, she began her career in 1918. At that time she was a 27 year old teacher of art in Albany. Arguably her most famous works were the illustrations for Rachel

BRAD HOLLAND

Holland was born in 1943 and pretty much taught himself to draw. He remembers drawing his own comic books as a child and, at the age of seven, took it upon himself to rewrite the ending of the Iliad in the Classics Illustrated version. My guess is the Trojans won.

ALEX TOTH

Alex Toth (rhymes with ‘both’) was a generous friend, an irascible curmudgeon and one of the greatest graphic geniuses of the past sixty years. He died at the age of HAL FOSTER BIOGRAPHY Hal Foster’s work has inspired generations of artists including Jack Kirby (see above), Lou Fine, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wayne Boring, Joe Kubert, Russ Manning, Frank Thorne, Dave Stevens, Charles Vess, William Stout, Mark Schultz and many others.Even the great Disney artist, Carl Barks once said that he kept Foster’s water scenes as reference because he was the only one who could

GEORGE PETTY

George Petty is most famous for his pin-up drawings that appeared in Esquire magazine in the 1930’s and the covers for many Ice Capades programs. There is an excellent 1997 book on him, Petty – The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty.It’s worth getting and I hereby credit it as my main source of information on Petty.

ALPHONSE MUCHA

Alphonse Mucha. Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R LEO AND DIANE DILLON BIOGRAPHY Leo and Diane Dillon Biography. There’s something magical about the Dillons’ art, not the least of which is that it exists at all. Collaborative art is, by nature, a series of compromises. Somehow the Dillons have managed to compromise themselves into an on-going series of masterworks. They met at Parsons School of Design in New York.

C. COLES PHILLIPS

The Siege of the Seven Suitors – 1910. C. Coles Phillips was born in 1880 in Springfield, Ohio. Others of his generation include Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Everett, Willy Pogany, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth, Though he enjoyed drawing as a youngster, when he graduated from high school his father got him a job as a clerk for the local

ROY G. KRENKEL

Roy G. (for Gerald) Krenkel was a talented contradiction. Born in 1918 (around the time of Virgil Partch, Bernard Krigstein and Ronald Searle), he studied for a year with George Bridgman at the Art Students League circa 1938, but other than that, his misspent youth consisted of “drawing a lot, reading and collecting art books, going to art museums, and associating with a few other young art PUBLISHING - BPIBRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

AND WHITE IMAGES

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.In painting it is an ancient process, and anyone can read in the many books written about the methods of the old

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies. LEO AND DIANE DILLON BIOGRAPHY An illustrated biography of Leo and Diane Dillon. One of dozens of biographical pages for illustrators and artists.

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn.He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father

ALEX TOTH

“Alex Toth was my friend.” Who knows how many people, usually aspiring artists and writers, said that about the guy who mailed them “kudos” for their work, along with tips and trade secrets, often on the front and back (and sometimes the stamp) of a 3″ x 5″ postcard—punctuated with his trademark duck (often looking like road kill in recent years )?

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on CARL BARKS’ CONQUEST OF EUROPE. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal.But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that.

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

PUBLISHING - BPIBRAVESLINKSILLUSTRATORSIMAGES MAGAZINE #13BOOKSBLACK

AND WHITE IMAGES

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co MAXFIELD PARRISH COLOR THEORY “Well – this method is very simple, very ancient, very laborious, and by no means original with me. It is somewhat like the modern reproductions in four-color half tone, where the various gradations are obtained by printing one color plate over another on a white ground of paper.In painting it is an ancient process, and anyone can read in the many books written about the methods of the old

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

For many years I was a bookseller by trade. Once we purchased about 625 issues of The American Weekly and I was introduced to this unique magazine during the laborious process of cataloging them. I had these illustrations scanned for my catalog, so I thought you might like a sneak peek at what treasures were being delivered every Sunday morning along with the funnies. LEO AND DIANE DILLON BIOGRAPHY An illustrated biography of Leo and Diane Dillon. One of dozens of biographical pages for illustrators and artists.

SIDNEY SIME

Sidney Sime is another original. Born in 1867, the same year as Rackham and Brangwyn.He showed precocious talent but his early years were spent making a blue collar living as, variously, a baker, a shoemaker, a coal miner and other forms of honest labor.

ARTHUR I. KELLER

Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or ’67 – both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father

ALEX TOTH

“Alex Toth was my friend.” Who knows how many people, usually aspiring artists and writers, said that about the guy who mailed them “kudos” for their work, along with tips and trade secrets, often on the front and back (and sometimes the stamp) of a 3″ x 5″ postcard—punctuated with his trademark duck (often looking like road kill in recent years )?

MAXFIELD PARRISH

This one image in Coy Ludwig’s indispensable 1973 book, Maxfield Parrish, told me a great deal about Parrish.I’ll explain why it is so fascinating in a moment. Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 – of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R DON ROSA ON CARL BARKS DON ROSA on CARL BARKS’ CONQUEST OF EUROPE. I have been asked to write a tribute to Carl Barks for The Comics Journal.But I can’t. I can’t. Actually, everything I’ve done professionally for the past 13 years has been a tribute to Carl Barks, and a great deal of the fan writing and comics I did long before that.

EDWARD J. DETMOLD

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother, Charles Maurice, were born in 1883. Others born within a year of them were John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Eric Gill, Walter Dean Goldbeck, Albert Hurter, Willy Pogany, Bert Thomas and N.C. Wyeth.. Born in London, they were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for

natural history.

PUBLISHING - BPIB

JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in Promethean Enterprises in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for George, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co

DOROTHY LATHROP

Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born April 16, 1891 in Albany, New York. One of the most influential and important illustrators of children’s books in the thirties and forties, she began her career in 1918.

BRAD HOLLAND

In 1967, he went to New York. This is about when I first became aware of his work. I bought a copy of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. off the newsstand in 1969 because I liked the cover. This is the earliest Holland work that I have.

GEORGE PETTY

George Petty is most famous for his pin-up drawings that appeared in Esquire magazine in the 1930’s and the covers for many Ice Capades programs. There is an excellent 1997 book on him, Petty – The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty.It’s worth getting and I hereby

credit

HAL FOSTER BIOGRAPHY Hal Foster’s work has inspired generations of artists including Jack Kirby (see above), Lou Fine, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wayne Boring, Joe Kubert, Russ Manning, Frank Thorne, Dave Stevens, Charles Vess, William Stout, Mark Schultz and many others.Even the great Disney artist, Carl Barks once said that he kept Foster’s water scenes as reference because he was the only one who could

VIRGIL FINLAY

Virgil Finlay was born July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York. He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures.

ALEX TOTH

“Alex Toth was my friend.” Who knows how many people, usually aspiring artists and writers, said that about the guy who mailed them “kudos” for their work, along with tips and trade secrets, often on the front and back (and sometimes the stamp) of a 3″ x 5″ postcard—punctuated with his trademark duck (often looking like road kill in recent years )?

ALPHONSE MUCHA

Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to

JEFFREY JONES

Frank Frazetta‘s Conan covers had hacked their way into the public consciousness in 1966 and 1967 and the art directors had their goal: find people who could paint like Frazetta. It’s obvious that Jones’ early sf work owes much to Mr. Frazetta, but it’s a very serious mistake to relegate all of his early work to the sf and

fantasy categories.

ROY G. KRENKEL

Roy G. (for Gerald) Krenkel was a talented contradiction. Born in 1918 (around the time of Virgil Partch, Bernard Krigstein and Ronald Searle), he studied for a year with George Bridgman at the Art Students League circa 1938, but other than that, his misspent youth consisted of “drawing a lot, reading and collecting art books, going to art museums, and associating with a few other young art Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr 3809 Laguna Ave Palo Alto, CA 94306-2629 Phone:

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THE HOME OF IMAGES AND B&W IMAGES MAGAZINE JVJ Publishing is me, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.THE I’ve been collecting illustrative and comic art for 45 years. You may have encountered my name in _Promethean Enterprises_ in the early 1970s, in the “acknowledgment section” of the Overstreet Price Guide, as a reviewer/publisher for _George_, a co-editor of Jerry Bails’ and Hames Ware’s Who’s Who of American Comic Books, or as the co-proprietor of _Bud Plant Illustrated Books_ from 1987 to 2005. Along the way I researched the careers of many comic book artists, contributing to bibliographies of Al Williamson, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Buscema, John Severin, Bernard Krigstein, and even wrote a book on Everett Raymond Kinstler. In addition, I’ve written over one hundred illustrator biographies ranging from E.A. Abbey to N.C. Wyeth that have been popular on the web from more than a

decade.

Over the years I’ve found that sharing information and images is my passion. In 2001, I tired of writing the on-line biographies and acquired two items that led directly to JVJ Publishing and The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS Magazine. The first was a bound volume of the French magazine, _L’Image, _from 1900, and the other was an all-Heinrich Kley issue of the German _Jugend magazine_ from 1910 with eight pages of his work in color. Sharing those Kley color pieces became an obsession. Soon I began conjuring up a magazine that would reprint great art that hadn’t been seen for a century. _L’Image_ provided the name, _Jugend_ the format and half the content, and my eclectic tastes filled it out with pictures from books and magazines in my collection. ImageS, now at issue thirteen, and Black and White ImageS, now at issue five, primarily reflect my taste, but have benefited over the years from the sharing of other collectors and have maintained an international/European focus. Like an archeologist searching the world’s discarded artistic detritus, every issue brings new discoveries, new images, and new artists — thanks to revisits to my archives, submissions from subscribers, and my own explorations of the flea markets of Paris. Each issue is a treasure chest filled with forgotten illustrations perhaps being saved from extinction, but certainly from obscurity. As our artistic heritage is forgotten or, more sadly I think, reduced to tiny web thumbnails, ImageS attempts to rePRINT them the way I think they should have been seen the first time: full-size (or larger) reproduced with modern restoration techniques on good paper using the best printing possible. The criteria has always been art in the public domain, i.e. from 1922 and earlier, The scans are cleaned, restored and renewed and then printed, since issue nine and B&W issue 3, via a stochastic (screenless) process and always on 100 lb coated stock. The techniques used are of my own development and include color correction and balancing that are my attempts to restore the art to its original state. As with the Sistine Chapel, for some this is sacrilege. For me

it is homage.

The past has always been a tremendous resource for modern illustrators and animators. JVJ Publishing and ImageS traces and enhances these influences and acts as a resource for artists of today to share in the stylistic richness that has been forgotten or truncated with time. I hope to show the paths of influence – in the pages of the magazine, in the black and white anthologies, on the Illustrators biographies on these web pages, and even in the Kinstler book. The richness of this heritage has yet to be fully revealed. We’ve simply forgotten too

much.

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